I loved my 2001 Maxima , even with 300, 000 it was still going, till the fire killed it. Our 2015 Altima is a decant car, no real issues to complain about , had to that the POC CVT transmission repaired about a month back, but Nissan ate the most of the cost on that one for us.
All I can say is , you play with fire , you are gonna get burned, and he did, he knew what he was doing, and I am sure he knew it was gonna catch up to him.