I bought my 2018 nissan altima sr midnight edition around october 2018. When I reached about 8,500 miles the cars front radar sensor went off, and my altima would say front radar unavailable due to obstruction, and this would go on and off the whole week. I called the dealer and they told me to come and we'll take a look at it. That week I went to the dealership and they told me that it's cover by warranty and that the front radar sensor needs to be recalibrated. Waited the whole day for them to fix it. When I left the dealership 10 miles out the front radar went off again, and I was fuming that my new car is doing this. I called back and told the that the sensor is doing the same thing again. They told me that they will order and new sensor for you and will fix it when the part arrives. Two weeks later the dealership never called or emiled me. I call them up and they said that the part is here and to bring the car in anytime. So I go in to the dealership and they changed the part. Day 1 was good no issues. Day 2 was good no issues. Day 3 the cars ABS system kicks in and brings my car to a full stop for no reason what so ever. There was no car in front of me, no pedestrians nothing. The weather was a clear sunny day and I driving in manhattan with a client in my car going 25 MPH. The whole car was shaking I heard the tire skid and the whole car was shaking, I got soo scared. The car behind me almost hit me and the guy comes out his car arguing with me on why I stoped suddenly for no reason. I told him it wasn't me the car stoped on it's own, but he didn't believe me and gave me a couple cuss words. I was in rage, and scared at the same time. I called the dealership again and told them the issues, they told me come in and we'll look at it for you. Im so angry because I could have been in an accident form the same thing that is supposed to prevent an accident.
2018 Nissan Altima brakes complaints
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The aeb (automatic emergency braking) system malfunctions continuously. I get a warning (front senors unavailable due to obstruction) but there is no obstruction. This shuts off the safety system that was designed to sense and stop the vehicle in an emergency. Many, many other nissan owners are having this same issue and nissan is failing to do a recall and fix it. Just as the system alerted me while driving yesterday, it then quickly shut off saying there was an obstruction. It was not adverse weather conditions and nothing was covering the front of the car. I stopped in time. I have an appointment this week with the nissan dealer, but with this being a marketed as a safety feature, and included as part of the safety ratings systems by the government, it should be a recall by nissan. I purchased the car because of the safety system and ratings.
Radar obstruction warning keeps popping up on screen.afraid that this would make the car stop and get rear ended.this is happening while driving..
During random driving the forward collision sensor comes on stating that forward collision is unavailable. Sometimes the sensor will go off 1-2 times or up to 6 times in one day. This sensor controls the (aeb) automatic emergency braking. Nissan has acknowledged this issue in several cars but no recall has been issued. This vehicle is my work vehicle and my personal nissan pathfinder has already had the part replaced with less than 10,000 miles. Currently my vehicle is out of warranty and they want $1700.00 for repair of faulty safety parts. I've been driving in perfectly sunny days, on bumpy back alley, just driving on the highways and the sensor goes off. I believe that this issue is more widespread than they acknowledge. Our fleet of company cars are experiencing the same problem with the rogue, altima.
This is an issue that has been continuously happening since I purchased the vehicle with about 2500 miles on it, it currently has about 6500 miles on it. The emergency braking system continues to turn on and off at various times but has continued to get worse over the few months that I have owned it. The worst situation I have had was recently on a 300 mile round trip when the emergency braking would activate and deactivate every few minutes, in which it would flash on the dash saying the system was obstructed, and the warning light showing it deactivated would turn on, the cruise control would shut off and a keeping sound would turn on. This was happening with no apparent particular incident. The trip took some back roads, a lot of highway (2 lane and 4 lane) and a moderate in city driving. The weather was clear, the sun was out with partial clouding, it was around 40 degrees outside, the roads were dry, some were rough some smooth, other than in the city there was little stop and go traffic. The worst incident was during the return trip, we were on a 2 lane highway that was pretty smooth. There was no one in front of us we were doing approximately 70mph with traffic behind us, we had the cruise control on and were just going along a straight flat stretch of road when the system once again deactivated, beeped then reactivated and beeped and then slammed on the brakes on us. It was only an instant and created no situation of danger based on our position, and as it was instant I was able to step on the gas again and we only dropped from 70 to about 50mph in the period. This was the worst situation I have run into with the issue so I looked it up on the internet and found it is stated as an issue on the sentra. This unexpected deceleration on a freeway could have been a devastating accident.
After hitting breaks many times and slamming them the car would still not stop
While driving during rain conditions, the forward radar repeatedly disables itself with an "obstruction" warning, which also disables the automatic emergency braking function. This issue does not present during dry weather conditions, and does not happen while transiting through a car wash. This problem was first noted in october 2018 when driving in rainy weather for the first time. The vehicle was new, with 00004 miles on the odometer, at the time of first possession in may 2018. As of 1-10-2019, the odometer reads 14970.
The front radar aeb keeps going out, almost the reason for my vehicle to not stop in an emergency situation. This feature was the complete reason I bought it now I feel like it is dangerous. I am considering asking for complete buy out of my loan. I have taken the car back 3 times in 3, nissan has no answers other than keep replacing faulty sensor with more faulty sensor.
Car would not brake and hit a pole. The vehicle is supposed to have emergency brakes, but did not work. Often would get a message across my dashboard saying it was unavailable.
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