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2014 Nissan Altima transmission complaints

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Filed Jul 19, 2019 · Transmission · 68,000 miles · MD

Car shudders, idles up and down, loses power while driving. When accelerating, the tachometer will raise to 4500-5000 rpms with no real power supplied to the car, and will only slowly accelerate(slipping?) tachometer bounces up and down within 100rpm range while coasting. My CVT is about to fail.

Filed Jul 17, 2019 · Acceleration, Transmission · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 nissan altima. While driving at an unknown speed, the contact heard a rumbling noise and there was a strong vibration coming from the vehicle. The contact stated that the vehicle surged and the gears failed to properly change over, when needed. In addition, the traction control indicator kept illuminating. Temecula nissan (41895 motor car pkwy, temecula, ca 92591, 951‑972‑8400) was unable to diagnose the failure several times and kept indicating that the traction control indicator caused the system to assume to brake and also caused a power train malfunction. The manufacturer later sent a technician to provide further testing. Pedder nissan (200 carriage cir, hemet, ca 92545, (951) 225-4831) was also contacted and indicated to take the vehicle back to the dealer that performed the repairs. The manufacturer provided no solution other than a settlement with no remedy for a permanent repair. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was not available.

Filed Jul 12, 2019 · Transmission · 66,000 miles · NY

The vehicle was in motion when the RPM dial started to move up and down and the car started to slip gears. The car was unable to go into top gear, struggled to go up hills, began shifting gears erratically, and could not acelerate past 40 miles per hour. The car felt very hurky jerky and the ride was the oppposite of smooth. This persisted for over several miles. I got the car to the nissan dealership the next day. According to a class action lawsuit I am involved in that nissan lost, on june 9, 2019, nissan was supposed to fix this issue, but they are refusing to make amends for the issue with the transmission on my car. The case is christopher gann et al. V. Nissan north america, case number 3:18-cv-00966, in the u.s. District court for the middle district of tennessee. My car is at the rockland nissan dealership right now at 845 -358-6700 and they want us to pay for them to diagnose the car because the car is out of warranty even though according to the legal deal they made they are supposed to extend our warranty 24 months or 24,000 miles and pay for any servicing of our transmission. Https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/auto-news/901515-nissan-altima-transmission-defect-class-action-settlement-reached/ https://www.law360.com/articles/1167149

Filed Jul 8, 2019 · Transmission · 96,000 miles · TX

Shakes when taking off, when hitting the gas it doesn't want to go anywhere. Shutters and vibrates. When it first started I was driving down the street

Filed Jun 26, 2019 · Transmission · 70,000 miles · AL

Driving on interstate the engine changed to low gear and had to pull over ...it shakes and hesitates when accelerate...'...less than 80,000 miles on this car..continues to shudder and stall. Nissan is not wanting to do anything ..there has been bulletins on 2014 nissan altimas and even repairs done in other states where nissan paid for service.. The dealership reset but said the transmission will only get worse . Cvt

Filed Jun 19, 2019 · Transmission · 40 miles · TX

Don't have to really say much because it's pretty much all over the internet but that transmission is a piece of junk!! It was slipping repeatedly from around 50,000-104,000 when I got rid of it. It would also stall out (yes on a CVT) from time to time in stop and go traffic. It got to a point that I was scared I was going to be stuck with a car with no resale valve (because of the transmission) and owe a $14,000 payoff balance with the bank. So I traded it in and got a f-150.I believe all jatco transmissions should go under an investigation because this is not safe for american roads.

Filed Jun 19, 2019 · Transmission · 105,000 miles · MN

Vehicle shudders when coming to a stop, then shuts down. On occasion will not re engage into gear without shutting down and then must be towed( twice has died in the middle lane of a road, needing to be towed). Generally occurs when slowing down but has also happened when trying to accelerate. Nissan dealership claims there are no known issues with these transmissions and are unable to replicate issue.

Filed Jun 18, 2019 · Engine, Transmission · 81,000 miles · VA

The car stalled and shut itself down when stopped at red signal light. Car was able to start but kept stalling and shutting itself down as soon as the car was put in drive or reverse or drive sport.

Filed Jun 18, 2019 · Steering, Transmission · 74,000 miles · AL

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 nissan altima. While driving 70 MPH, the transmission downshifted, the engine revved, and the vehicle decelerated. The engine lost power when the vehicle approached a stop sign. In addition, the steering wheel vibrated. The contact was able to gain control of the vehicle after it was turned off and restarted. Also, the "m6" message appeared on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic to be diagnosed, but no failure codes appeared. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer and dealer were not made aware of the failure. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 74,000. *tr

Filed Jun 6, 2019 · Transmission · GA

Transmisson abruptly stalling in stop and go traffic at highway stop or red light

Filed Jun 1, 2019 · Transmission · 69,000 miles · IA

Whining transmission occurs at high speeds

Filed May 14, 2019 · Transmission · 97,987 miles · NC

Car shaking coming to a stop then cut off

Filed May 3, 2019 · Transmission · 71,000 miles · CA

When I was driving my car started grinding as if the engine wanted to shut down or the transmission I was getting ready to get on the freeway and I could barely move it was in gear it wouldn't do it in low gear either I will come to a stop light or stop sign because I was trying to make it home which was 5 miles away, and it would just barely inch out sometimes it won't even start for about 45 seconds to a minute to go into drive and the rpms at 25 miles an hour would hit up to five RPM's the whole time driving,I take really good care of my car in for this to happen to my transmission is not ok and then I started looking up that this is common in my car so why haven't you done any recalls? It all starts at 70,000 miles but there is no recalls for that because you only have your warranty is up to 60,000 miles which is a good thing because you know that the transmissions going to go out after 60,000 miles, anyway I barely got my car back to my home and I have a mechanic look at it and it's going to cost me almost $4500 to get my transmission fixed, and I still owe 16,000 on it. I don't know what's going on with your nissan ultima's but looking up online mine is not the first one that this is happened to so therefore since I can't drive a car because I can't afford to pay all that money, and then I also am out of work because I need a car to drive back-and-forth, I am going to find an attorney that will do a class action lawsuit against you guys for the vehicles doing this! What is happening is not ok, and should never happen but with everything I looked up online there are hundreds of nissan altima's 2014's around 70,000 miles that the transmission is going out this is a problem and it needs to be addressed!

Filed Apr 2, 2019 · Transmission · 97,000 miles · VA

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 nissan altima. While driving approximately 55 MPH, the vehicle hesitated and the battery warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle failed to accelerate as the accelerator pedal was depressed. The vehicle was towed to banister nissan of norfolk (1250 n military hwy, norfolk, va 23502) where it was diagnosed that the CVT failed. The contact was informed that the transmission needed replacement and the CVT needed reprogramming. The nissan manufacturer was notified and informed the contact that the extended warranty expired in december of 2018; however, there was an open service campaign number: pc490 (CVT reprogram). The contact stated that she had not received notification of the open service campaign. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 97,000.

Filed Apr 1, 2019 · Transmission · 80,213 miles · WV

Cvt transmission failure

Filed Mar 5, 2019 · Airbags, Suspension · 32,000 miles · FL

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Filed Mar 5, 2019 · Transmission · 60,311 miles · PA

As my vehicle passed 60,000 miles few more hundred and transmission failed. They make the worst transmission

Filed Mar 1, 2019 · Transmission · 104,145 miles · VA

My car started "sputtering" and shutting off when in motion or coming to a stop. The car then started to rev the engine between 2-3rpm when I was driving at a constant speed. When I was driving on a major highway, the car revved past 4rpm and completely shut off without warning. I was luckily able to stop the car, but no one should ever have to endure that dangerous and potentially catastrophic event. I took my car to the nissan dealer and they said that my transmission needed to be replaced. It is apparent that nissan had knowingly sold cars with faulty transmissions that would fail far before an acceptable time with many consumers facing the high cost of repairing the transmission. As I was hoping this was a one-off situation and that no one else experienced this, but it looks like this is a frequent complaint for the nissan altima 2014. Nissan should be held responsible for the transmission replacement and extend their power train warranty to 120,000 miles or 10 years as they have for their car models from 2003-2010.

Filed Feb 19, 2019 · Transmission · 147,000 miles · CA

Transmission, called "throw away transmission" by 3 different mechanics. Code came on during freeway driving. Have been told by 3 mechanics (including the nissan dealer) nothing can be done but replace the transmission.

Filed Feb 7, 2019 · Transmission · 90,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 nissan altima. While driving 50 MPH, there was an abnormal noise under the hood. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who stated that the transmission failed and drained the torque. The failure recurred. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer for diagnostic testing or repairs. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 90,000.

Filed Jan 29, 2019 · Engine, Transmission · GA

I have a 2014 nissan altima that revs up while I;m driving and then stops. I turn it off and start it again. It does this constantly. It's very dangerous because I'm driving and all of a sudden, I hear a revving up sound, the car starts to hesitate,, it slows down and then comes to a complete stop. It doesn;t give me a chance to pull off the road. I have to immediately put on my hazard lights. It stops without warning. Once I hear the revving up sound, within a few seconds she hesitates, slows down and come to a complete stop. Very, very dangerous. The car hesitates when making turns also. Car does not accelerate if you stop at a light like she suppose to. Let me explain. When I'm at a red light and the light turns green, I put my foot on the gas and the car does not accelerate, she hesitates, go slowly, then kicks in and allows you to proceed. I'm very afraid to drive it. I have heard others and on the news say peoples experience with their nissan altima shutting down just like mine. For me its shutting down everywhere. It's happened on the highway, street, always when in motion, during turns, after stopping at a red light and its time to proceed. I've almost gotten hit by other cars many times when she suddenly stalls. Something is wrong with this vehicle. I don't have video of incident because it hasn't had an accident yet, but I'm sure an accident can happen at any day. I'm nervous every time I drive it. It's the mercies of god that I haven't had an accident. Please note I was almost in an accident that would have badly injured or killed me when I was making a left turn on hwy 78. The car stalled while making a left turn. The SUV almost hit me as I was making my left turn and the car stalled and the SUV stopped just as it was about to hit me. I was shaken up so badly, I had to park my car and calm my nerves. This shouldn't be happening. It's a dangerous car.

Filed Jan 28, 2019 · Transmission · 60,000 miles · FL

Cvt dtc code p17f0 brought the car to the dealer to have the CVT fluid changed at the 60,000 mile service. The dealer showed me the dtc code indicating that there is a CVT problem. The dealer also stated that when the 2014 altima with an l33 engine came out, nissan was changing the CVT because the code indicates an imminent failure. The dealer stated that since then because it cost nissan too much, nissan has started to rebuild the CVT and the dealers have a trained mechanic to rebuild the CVT and correct the CVT judder code. The dealer stated they would contact nissan and advise what how nissan will correct the deficiency. Now over 2 weeks, the dealer has not returned my phone calls to advise how nissan will handle. My wife drives the car with my young daughter and I travel for work. I am now concerned the CVT will be problems when I am away and could inadvertently cause a traffic accident when she is driving if the CVT fails. This should be a safety campaign that the federal safety agency takes on and pursues. Nissan knows about their problems and eventually when there is a failure on the highway someone will get killed or it has already happened and the causal factors have not been identified attributed to the accident. This is a major safety concern and it seems like nissan is not concerned or performing a recall just as the way nissan is handling the takata air bag problems in their cars. Further, it is extremely interesting that when the car has been in for pas service, the other nissan dealers did not do the quick simple check of the codes to ensure there were no problems. Wouldn't it benefit them as it could produce business?? How stupid and poor service we receive from the dealers.

Filed Jan 22, 2019 · Transmission · 100,600 miles · FL

Replaced transmission at 84000 miles at a cost of $4100 because of shuddering and stalling. At 100600 miles and 11 months later the transmission failed the exact same way again. Nissan would not cover the cost of another replacement. It cost me another $1050 with the help of the dealer and nissan who know they have a totally faulty transmission and won't acknowledge. It stalled and shutterdat a highway intersection and was a dangerous problem. I am lucky I wasn't smashed into on the highway.

Filed Dec 26, 2018 · Transmission · 41,000 miles · FL

Have had jerking and shuddering problems while trying to excel, several months after purchasing my car in 2016. At that time it had approx.24,000 miles on it, the dealership took care of the transmission issue. I just recently took it back again with the same issue the car had no power when trying to excel onto the highway ,and was very hesitant and unsafe. The transmission had to be completely replaced! The vehicle only has 43,000 miles on it ,which leaves me very concerned, and with my warranty almost up. I am very concerned as I see this is an obvious problem with this vehicle, that I consider still new.

Filed Dec 23, 2018 · Transmission · 173,000 miles · VA

After driving car for 173000 miles with no trouble transmission failed to shift it,s like completefailurewith absolutely no movement now

Filed Dec 12, 2018 · Transmission · 120,000 miles · TX

This is the second transmission issue I've had in less than a year. The car began shaking in february and stopped on me while at a stop light. There have been no check engine lights or anything to alert me of an issue. Now the car will hesitate severly before shifting gears. If I take the care out of park into drive or reverse, it takes upwards of 30 seconds for the car to engage into that gear. I have been stranded at home and at grocery stores due to the faulty transmission which I'm now being told needs to be replaced. I have had to endure random moments of shaking and even feeling as if the car has died while driving on the freeway. There have been no indicator lights regarding any issues with the car the car is less than 5yrs old and is a little over 100k miles I have been having transmission issues now for about almost a year.

Filed Dec 11, 2018 · Lights, Transmission · 128,000 miles · FL

At 53,000 miles the transmission would no longer function.transmission had to be replaced.at about 130,000 miles I notice that when headlights were on low beam you could barely see the road at night time.so I did some research on thi vehicle what I found out was on nissan altimas manufactured between 2013 -2015 have the same problem.you do not have sufficient lighting on low beam.you have to use high beam on dark roads.this is a major safety issue with these vehicles.I have had the nissan dealership in my local area new port richey put in the exact bulbs car came with from factory same issue poor lighting on low beam.I then had nissan dealership put in bulbs that I purchased on line these bulbs put out 8000 lumens and these bulbs are LED bulbs.the factory nissan bulbs put out 1200 lumens and are halogen bulbs.both sets of bulbs I got same result insuffiecient lighting on low beam.the nissan technician told me I would have to replace both headlight assemblies at a cost of $700.00.I feel these headlight lens were a manufacturing defect without question therefore I feel nissan should be held liable for replacing the defective parts.I have receipts from dealership for work performed.I have also filed a complaint with the bbb autoline dept, and filed a compaint with nissan consumer affairs.this is a very hazardous situation and god forbid someone will lose their life over something like this.

Filed Dec 10, 2018 · Transmission · 84,000 miles · FL

The transmission is delayed once it gets to 2000 RPM and is not changing over

Filed Nov 28, 2018 · Transmission · 85,000 miles · OH

My transmission failed after only 85,000 miles. I was stopped at a highway exit ramp stop light when it failed.

Filed Nov 27, 2018 · Transmission · 90,500 miles · TX

Cvt failed on the highway with 90,500 miles on car. Vehicle was in motion at highway speed then suddenly slowed almost to a stop. Dealer tried to perform the CVT programming recall but said transmission was shot. $4,500 to replace. One owner car all highway miles.

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