Tl* the contact owns a 2012 nissan altima. While driving 75 MPH, the vehicle decelerated without warning. The vehicle was taken to larry h. Miller nissan highlands ranch (91320 plum valley ln, highlands ranch, co 80129, (720) 907-0718) to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the failure was due to the transmission overheating, which caused the vehicle to revert to limp mode. The contact was informed that a cooling pump needed to be installed to cool the transmission while the vehicle was being operated. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 126,000.
2012 Nissan Altima transmission complaints
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Transmission issue with the CVT transmission. Whining when accelerating or slowing down going up a hill or going down. Nissan extended warranties on earlier models but not the 2012 altima.
Cvt transmission on the nissan ultima 2012 has been had given me a lot of problems for the past 6 months. Upon seeing reviews on the internet in hearing a lot of complaints due to the transmission problems with the nissan baltimore frome yes before the 2012 model up until now that something has to be done to correct this problem with nissan dealers to fix this brow with all the alter most this having a strong with faulty equipment. It is very dangerous to drive by losing power especially if you only in a state will call several accidents due to losing power to upgrade and wanting noise is just creates a big problem moon in a state if you drive-in in your fewer in a major city with the the vehicle slowing down without your control.
Lose of power climbing steep grade at hi altitude transmission over heating. This should not happen.
I own a 2012 nissan altima and the car was running good untill 70000. After 70k mile its started making too much noise and at 80k miles its losing power even if I run the gas pedal all the way.the RPM will staty at 2500 at this point.when I researched found out that the CVT transmissions has design falw and most of the CVT transmission has the same issue. I took it to the nissan dealer and they said I have to replace the transmission.I cant believe that nissan cars lasts for only 70k miles. These problems are coming when I am driving on the highway all of a sudden and its very dangerous to drive this car.
When I was driving the CVT starts making noise, the RPM go up to 6,000 RPM then I loose engine power suddenly so the car speed stuck on 40 MPH suddenly and decrease the speed even when I press the gas pedal, when I press the gas pedal it just makes noise and increase the RPM and the noise but the speed don't increase, so a car behind me crash tailgating my car, I'm now with seriously injuries, the nissan CVT is defective and dangerous, my car only has 96,000 miles.
My car started making a whining noise while driving it. Going up the hill my car on a highway in the desert when the speed declined it's from 70mph to 45mph, which I tried to accelerate and it was stuck on 45mph, and almost caused the car behind me to crash into me with my three young children in the back seat. A lot of complaints have been made and nothing's has been done. What does it take a life to be taken in order for a recall. The transmissions on these cars are crap. Every time someone walks into the dealership they seem to be well aware but no recall he been done.
O hills and on warm days the car losses power and wont go over 60 MPH this happened on the highway and almost cuased a wreck. This has happened several times. Engine light came on and the code said it was low on fluid. It was checked and was good.
When driving in warm weather for 1.5 hours or more CVT transmission loses power and makes a whining noise. This is a known issue regarding these transmissions and nissan extended warranty on vehicles up to 2010 because of it. Transmission says it is overheating and puts itself into "safe mode" thereby losing all power and ability to accelerate on hills, etc. I was almost rear ended due to the sudden loss of power and acceleration.
Cvt transmission has failed. 6 years old. Less than 120,000 miles. Stopped at redlight, could not pull out or reverse, car would only go 3-5mph. Car engine runs fine.
Driving home from work, turning onto the highway and car won't go above 20 MPH and whines terribly.
The vehicle will not shift out of first gear with its automatic transmission.
In warm or hot weather, 75 degrees f or above, the transmission gets hot and fails to pull. It goes into some type of mode that seems to temporarily reset the transmission. I have talked to other altima owners and it seems to be a common problem. After about ten minutes of letting the car sit with nothing on. The car will continue for a while. It has happened to me approximately ten times. The trips that it happens on are over 75-80 miles. Please reply with a possible remedy. Thanks, [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
The CVT transmission will lose power when driving over an hour on the highway causing the car to drop speed on the highway out of the blue.
Cut transmission slipping causing car to over ten with little to no acceleration.
I have 135,000 miles on my 2012 nissan altima. And I started hearing a whining noise and asked the dealership to check it out about 2 months ago. They said that's just how the altima sounds. Now I am having to replace a transmission that's going to cost me 4,000.00. I researched transmission issues on the internet and a lot of people are having the same issues. Going up a hill the car would whine or when I try to accelerate. The car started to jerk upon pulling off and would not accelerate until I let off the brake then tried to accelerate again.
My car is in excellent condition. Just under 7 years old and my transmission has to be replaced. The transmission began slipping and RPM 's were high when I was driving on the highway.
Cvt transmission are not , not cars! There was a recall up to 2010, but they continued to make them with CVT! Often when driving my car it lose all acceleration! I went to nissan and there was no issue on the diagnostic tool and they said that due to this being the main job of the cht, they said a cooling kit can be installed, which it was. 2 years later, my car again slips into neutral. My gear shift moves sometimes and other times, just no acceleration this has happened now over 10 times in 2 days!!!!!! Because the issue is not showing on diagnostic, they will not look at the cars transmission, trans fluid, or the gear shift. They wouldn't do a thing to my car! This is forcing me to drive with unsafe conditions! I am taking into a real and honest mechanic!! Nissan knows there is an issue and that many drivers are driving dangerously, as they refuse to do the right thing!!! There is no dipstick to check the transmission fluid or else I would do it myself. Do the right thing and save many people from getting into accidents and potentially losing their lives!!! Coming off an off ramp, no acceleration; driving on a highway no acceleration, pulling out of my driveway after warming my car up non acceleration. This is dangerous and illegal!!!!! This issue began 2-3 years ago, was temporarily fixed wit the cooling kit that I had to pay for out of pocket, and has been happening consistently for the last 5 days!!!! Google this issue and there are thousands of people with the same issue and nissan offering no help nor even a simple mechanic once over look!!!! I am a social worker who works with children in foster care, often tranporting them from unsafe conditions to situations that I am promising are more safe and comfortable! I can no longer promise them this if my car is unsafe!! I have almost been in a minimum of 5 accidents because of this issue! Dealership no help!!
While driving on highway doing speed 70 to 80mph, vehicle begins to reduce speed and goes into like a safe mode. Very unsafe on interstate highway. While searching on google find out CVT transmission vechile only has 81823 miles on it. Nissan needs to cover the warranty to fix the vechile.
Takata recall. I was traveling on the interstate, in heavy traffic, when my car began to slow it refused to maintain my speed or accelerate at all. I had to pull into the median to avoid being hit by an 18 wheeler. I had my sister and two of our little kids in the car with me. This is not the only time it has done this it has done it several times now and the mechanics can't find anything wrong. I have read several places where others have had this same issue.... I believe their is a manufacturer default with either the acceleration or transmission.... It just revs up sounds like it's doing something but not increasing speed. I have noticed that it occurs mostly after I have been traveling a while...like about an hour and a half or so
My nissan altima 2012 has significant reduction in speed while taking trips less than 40 miles. Driving on fast lane on highway about 70 miles then all of a sudden it reduces all by itself to 35-40 MPH and I almost got into in accident because I did to know what was going on but had to get off the onto the side of the highway.
2012 nissan altima sl 115,425 miles and transmission dead.
Since when my car had 31,000 miles it's been winging and losing power rapidly, no acceleration, it's a CVT transmission issue. It's a really dangerous car. It's been happening so many times . Nissan CVT transmission are very danger. It can cause an accident in the freeway because it can go from 65 MPH down to 5 MPH rapidly and unexpectedly. Please do something about it and protect the life of people.
After driving for about two hours on a trip the CVT transmission stops accelerating and you slow to a crawl which is very dangerous if your in heavy traffic was almost killed by a big rig who couldn't slow down in time
The 2012 nissan altima coupe 3.5 6 speed manual transmission was in motion on a city street when sudden loss of clutch pressure occurred. This resulted in the inability to change gears and therefore effectively control the speed of the vehicle outside minimum and maximum speed specifications for the given gear. This was the result of a faulty concentric clutch slave cylinder.
My 2012 altima 2.5s has shut down transmission wise(CVT) and it will not speed up even when gas pedal is all the way to the floor! Today it did this for a total of 120 miles...this is a safety issue when you cant get your car out of the way of even get to the shoulder because nothing happens when the gas is pushed down...I barely made it home today with of course a torrential downpour and my car wouldnt respond...I googled "2012 altima will not speed up going uphill" what I found are too many complaints with the same exact problem and nissan does nothing about it...whats it going to take? Someone getting killed which is what it usually takes to get something positive done? Nissan needs to do a recall on this immediately..
When traveling on freeway at 70-100 MPH car will loose acceleration and slowly slow down to 40 MPH no matter how far the gas pedal is depressed. Will not regain power until the car is pulled over shut off and within 5-10 minutes restarted and will repeat again within 15 -20 minutes of reaching 70 MPH.
Sustained driving more than an hour the transmission overheats and forces sensor to "fail safe mode" causing vehicle to drive only at low speed. This is a safety issue on the open road due to driving way under posted speed or having to stop n road side.
While driving on a highway at 75mph, my car just stopped going. I decelerated very quickly. I was pressing gas pedal to the floor and car would not increase speed. It just would not go. The rpms went over 3,000. No check engine light came on. I didn't even have any warning in the days leading up to this event that this would happen. There were a lot of vehicles on road at that particular time and a truck happened to be driving behind me. The truck and other vehicles were all swerving on either side of me to get out of my lane and as a result, I could not get my vehicle off of the road until they all passed. As I kept coasting along waiting for opportunity to pull over to side of road, I kept pressing gas pedal. Eventually that worked and I began to pick up speed again, but my car was accelerating very slowly. I drove to exit and got off of highway. I waited about an hour before returning home same way. On drive home accelerating was slow and rpms were erractic. There was also a whining noise when I gave car gas. This happened once more. I no longer drive car on highway so I haven't experienced it stopping while driving, but it still whines, accelerates slowly, and rpms are erratic. Vehicle has been parked at service department at dealership. My car only has 108,000 miles on it. I've never missed any scheduled maintenance which dealership performed majority of it. The warranty was only covered up to 60,000 miles. Now I'm told that at 108,000 miles, I need a new tcc, valve body, and solenoids.
After driving vehicle for 1 hour or more, vehicle goes into fail-safe mode, meaning the rpms will not go over 2500. So, if one is on the highway going 70 MPH, then arrives at a hill, then the vehicle speed could decrease to 40 MPH. According to mechanic, this is a known issue and nissan has a service kit for this exact issue. I am not sure why it is not a recall...
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