2008 Nissan Altima: engine overheating

Filed Oct 27, 2016 · Transmission · 135,700 miles · AR

Transmission recall. The CVT transmission is bad on these on model altimas. They overheat and lose all power and the car wont accelerate . There is no warning light, no warning sound, it just goes out, where ever while in motion! My car did this last time on the freeway. You have to sit until the transmission cools off .. I have been on the side of the road in many places, I almost got hit the last time in the middle of the freeway. You can't drive more than 2 hours at 70 without it happening. Nissan recalled the part and extended teh warrantys but the parts still do it. The transmision shouldn't even be serviced until 100000 miles! Theses cars should easily get 200-250,000 miles. Nissan is negligent in not recalling them at all! Thousands of people have this "known" issue and it could cause someone to be killed! I am on the 4th transmission repair and it still does it! They need to recall the car model before someone gets hurt! It does it while in motion, which is frightening with no warning! I should not have to pay for this repari as it did it at 20000 miles first! The nthsa needs to make them recall the car

Filed Sep 24, 2016 · Driver assistance, Engine · 158,000 miles · GA

After replacing my transmission, the car continued to sputter anytime I was driving for more than a few miles. My mechanic figured out that the catalytic converter was overheating to about 600 degrees when it should have been no more than 250 degrees, causing parts of the engine to begin melting. The check engine light never came on to alert me of this issue, and I may now have permanent engine damage.

Filed Aug 16, 2016 · 91,000 miles · KS

The factory sound system face plate is blistering. This may be caused by radio overheat or some type of short. The radio works fine

Filed Aug 7, 2015 · Acceleration, Engine · 90,000 miles · TX

My vehicle's transmission failed after only 90,000 miles. Nissan replaced the transmission for free under their extended CVT warranty program, however, less than a year later, the check engine light came on while making a long distance trip on the interstate. According to nissan the CVT fluid required for the CVT transmission can become glue like and gunk up at high speeds or in hot weather, causing the engine to overheat and the car to stall. The solution for this problem is an external coolant system for the CVT fluid provided to the customer at their expense to keep the transmission fluid from becoming thick. I am extremely disgusted with my nissan experience, they knowingly are making transmissions which fail after less than 100,000 miles and are requiring them to use nissan CVT fluid which is a fail also.

Filed Dec 17, 2008 · Engine · 2,000 miles · AZ

I bought my car in july 2008 from power nissan of tempe, az about a month or so later I noticed when driving my car for more than 5 miles around town. I would smell an overheating odor and my car would start driving very sluggish. Car was slow to accelerate. My temperature gage on the dash has never indicated that the car was overheating. I took the car into the nearest dealership and reported the problem. I left my car overnight with them and picked it up the next day with them telling me that they could not find a leak anywhere. So I took the car home. No sooner than that I started to smell the again. So I pulled over and looked under the hood to find that the antifreeze was leaking out of the overflow cap. There are remainders of antifreeze still on the oveflow container. I took it back to the dealership and reported the problem again. I was told that all the nissans are doing that and it was normal. As long as the temperature gage wasn't reading hot. I don't think this is normal and someone needs to look into this defect asap! Im getting nowhere with nissan.

Filed Mar 25, 2008 · Engine · 1,500 miles · AZ

My niece took our altima to california (less than 2,000 miles on it at this time). The cars belt was broken when the tensioner pulley broke off of the engine. This caused the power steering to fail and overheated the engine. It has been in mossey nissan's shop in el cajon for three weeks now due to back ordered parts.