2012 Nissan Altima: whining or grinding noise

Filed Oct 22, 2021 · Steering, Suspension · 129,921 miles · MD

The contact owns a 2012 Nissan Altima. The contact stated that the steering wheel would emit an abnormal whining noise while both stationary and while making turns in either direction. As the failure persisted, the steering wheel began to vibrate, and excessive force was needed to steer the vehicle. There was no warning light illuminated. A dealer was not notified of the failure. The contact called the manufacturer and was informed that her vehicle was not covered under the federal safety agency Campaign Number: 12V494000 (Steering, Suspension). The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was 129,921. Consumer stated RECALL was called due to the rack and pinion of the steering wheel of the car.

Filed Jul 30, 2020 · Acceleration, Engine · 135,000 miles · GA

Car automatically reduces speed from 65 MPH to 35 MPH while in motion on highway and will not increase speed when driving at an hour or better at 65 MPH or greater. When it autodecelerates it makes a whining noise and will not accelerate again until you turn the engine off and allow the car to sit for 30 mins or better.

Filed Jul 19, 2020 · Acceleration, Transmission · 60 miles · CA

2012 nissan altima 2.5s sedan, purchased new plus extended warranty with 3 miles on it. At 64k miles while driving on the highway after about a. Hour at normal speeds on a hot day the car started making a whining noise from the engine compartment. The vehicle became sluggish and the speed reduced to 60mph. The RPM gauge began to rise ant the car began to decrease it's speed eventually descending to 20 MPH while the RPM gauge fluctuated from 2k to 5k RPM. The gas pedal was non responsive except for a louder whining noise as it was pressed . We pulled over for a while and the vehicle went to normal. This exact same issue happened 2 more times before we arrived home. The dealer responded stating a new transmission was needed but not covered they said my warranty was not valid. I complained, they contacted headquarters I guess and stated to me because the car was under 70k miles the company would pay partial for the repair but my out of pocket expenses would have been about 1200. Not only did I think this was unfair but I also didn't have an extra 1200 lyng around. So unfortunately I've been dealing with this issue for years car drives fine for about 40 min. So no long commutes.

Filed Feb 5, 2020 · Transmission · 125,000 miles · LA

I was driving down the highway and my transmission started making a loud whining noise and revved up to about 6400 RPM's and my car had no acceleration from that time on.. Now I'm facing either paying $3400 for a new transmission or just trashing a perfectly well kept up car. I've always made sure to have my car completely serviced and maintained on time. After this I will never buy from nissan again. These CVT transmissions are horrible. Nissan is looking after their profit instead of reliability. This is a 2012 altima with 125000 miles.

Filed Sep 12, 2019 · Transmission · 95,000 miles · NC

While driving on the highway for over an hour at speeds 60+ MPH the transmission will begin to whine, while at the same time the rpms will skyrocket. The car will rapidly decelerate while this is happening. This has happened multiple times on road trips when the car was at 20k miles and continues to happen more often now that the car is nearing 100k miles.

Filed Aug 12, 2019 · Engine · 55,000 miles · CA

I bought a certified pre-owned 2012 nissan altima 2.5s sedan from university nissan in universal city, ca. Throughout its life from when I received car at around 45,000 miles, every couple thousand 5k-10k care engine engine could not accelerate quicker car would begin making engine whining noise. It was never disgnosed as a CVT problem when I would take car to nissan in warranty repair . During dealership repair enounter mass air flow sensor was replaced. "mass air flow sensor" that has been replaced multiples times throughout its life as well. Car now has a CVT problem and struggles during hot weather and worst if people are in car now.

Filed Apr 9, 2019 · 150,000 miles · KY

Transmission went out whining noise..would not go over 40 MPH . Rpms went up but no power .. Had towed to dealer advised transmission was bad ..transmission shop advised would cost $ 3800 to repair and nissan transmissions were faulty has 150,000 miles ..

Filed Jan 23, 2019 · Transmission · LA

I purchased the 2012 nissan in 2015 with only 22,000 and something miles. Once the car got to about 76,000 something miles a whining noise started. So now with the car at only 83,074 miles the transmission isn't getting any power. So I turn to read reviews and talk to people only to find out the CVT's aren't worth anything and to get them replaced the price is ridiculous and I can't afford it. But you would think with all the complaints about it nissan would do something about it. I would not tell anyone to purchase a nissan ever. Also when the whining would take place the car was being driven on city streets or major highways

Filed Dec 18, 2018 · Transmission · 65,000 miles · TX

Cvt transmission was built poorly, the transmission is slowly destroying itself causing a loss of power, high pitched whining noise and eventually fail. The date I selected for when it happened is the date I noticed the issue on my vehicle.

Filed Oct 6, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 115,000 miles · GA

When driving the car for a long distance (30 miles) there is a whining sound that starts and the car will not accelerate. If the car is allowed to sit and cool down the whining will stop but start back as the engine/transmission heats up. During this period the car will loose power and not exceed 40 miles per hour. This happens when driving throughout the city and on the highway

Filed Oct 1, 2018 · Acceleration · 106,000 miles · GA

Was driving on the interstate using cruise control at 70mph. The rpms suddenly increased to around 6,000. After that happened, the service engine light came on and I had trouble accelerating and the rpms were never able to get over 3,000, even with the gas pedal pressed all the way. It was difficult to get any acceleration and the car would make a whining noise whenever pressing on the gas.

Filed Aug 8, 2018 · Transmission · 30,000 miles · WY

Initially experienced loss of power around 30,000 miles while going 80 MPH on interstate. Extremely dangerous situation as the only option is to pull off to the side of the road. Took it to dealer but they couldn't replicate or find anything wrong. Vehicle continued to randomly lose power while at high rates of speed, as well as a loud whining and humming sound. Took to dealership 8 different times and still couldn't find anything. Was told if a check engine light came on that would help locate issue. Check engine came on during loss of power issue, and dealership still told me couldn't pinpoint problem. The most recent loss of power in june 2018, I was nearly struck from behind by a semi truck travelling at a high rate of speed because there is no warning for the loss of power and there was no where to pull off to. Still an ongoing issue, and nissan refuses to acknowledge the problem or do anything to assist.