2007 Nissan Frontier: stuck in gear or won't shift

Filed Dec 10, 2018 · Transmission · 122,000 miles · AZ

Transmission went into limp mode leaving driveway. Cleared by shutting off & restart. Did this twice then would not reset. Took to shop & diagnosed contaminated tranny fluid & ruined transmission. One part replaced was nissan oem TCM. Three months after rebuild same thing happened on highway but could not clear limp mode. $400 tow to shop but they said all tested and passed, reset codes. Happened again on highway and drove to nissan dealer in flagstaff. They diagnosed lack of communication with TCM and said it would happen again, and to get to shop for diagnosis without turning off the engine. The third time this happened on highway drove slow in limp mode back to orignial shop that rebuilt transmission. Transmission shop after diagnostic said oem TCM failed. Avondale nissan supplied shop with new TCM but only after failed TCM was returned. Total expenses over $7000 and loss of vehicle use for 10 days when transmission was rebuilt and 26 calendar days second time due to difficulty in shop determining exactly what failed because nissan said TCM not prone to failure history.

Filed Oct 13, 2016 · Transmission · 124,000 miles · CO

The truck began losing power because it would not shift into lower gears. This put us at risk at higher speeds. The problem got worse and we took it to the nissan dealer. We learned that nissan knew of the issue, but failed to notify us. They knowingly let us drive a dangerous truck for years.. We were lucky we brought it in when we did. We always had our truck repaired at the nissan dealer, they had numerous opportunities to tell us, or write us. We have not moved! This is wrong and the class action lawsuit settlement is unfair to those of us who happened to have the issue at mileage over 100,000. The judge should have required nissan to warn us. We are going to have to pay $5000 to have this repaired, we already paid $200 dollars in new fluids thinking that was the issue.

Filed Apr 18, 2016 · Transmission · 111,269 miles · OK

Transmission will not go into gear due to coolant leaking into transmission. It is a manufacturer defect that nissan has known about, but refuses to fix. They do not tell the buyer of the looming catastrophic failure, and continued to manufacture the vehicles for several more years even after discovering the problem, probably because it fails after the warranty is up. I now have a truck that I bought just a little over a year ago for $17000 that will not move. The cost to fix the problem can range anywhere from $4000 to $10000 depending on how much damage was caused by the defect. If it were to have been in a wreck and that much money in body damage would have occurred it would be totaled. How ever since it is a mechanical issue I am stuck paying $360 a month for a useless vehicle, that even if I could afford to get it fixed, I would be putting way more money into it than it is worth. When I purchased it from the nissan dealership it had an as is no warranty tag in the window, but that was not true. Nissan had a warranty for that specific problem, but the dealership did not tell me. When I called and asked the service department, the service writer pretended not to know anything about it until I started grilling him about it. He then admitted it was a big problem in 3 of their vehicles, then told me it wasn't his problem, it was sales problem and transferred me to them. I talked to the manager, he said that the extended warranty nissan offered, the one they neglected to mention, expired the month before my transmission failed, and even then I would have been out $2500 for a known defect that they continued to put in the vehicles for several more years. I was lucky it failed in a parking lot and not when I was pulling out into traffic where I could have been hit by another car and injured or killed! This problem is not the consumers fault, it is nissans!

Filed Nov 4, 2015 · Transmission · 115,000 miles · VT

The transmission doesnt shift down as it needs to when it is called for,and a chatter happens when it does shift down.

Filed Sep 7, 2015 · Engine · 77,515 miles · CA

Transmission failure. Driving on freeway vehicle wouldn't shift into gear. I was stuck and on my way home in heavy traffic. Truck started shaking. Took it to aamco on 5/2/15. Cost me over $3770.00. On 9/6/15 took first trip to the mountains, again my transmission goes out. This time we're in the mountains going up hill when my truck won't shift into gear. Once again I have to have my truck fixed. I don't own a bank and I need my truck to work. What the hell am I going to do to make a living? What is nissan waiting for someone or a family getting killed???

Filed Aug 24, 2014 · Engine, Transmission · 120,695 miles · FL

Purchased the vehicle on 8/16/2014 and I was driving the vehicle to work and transmission wouldn't shift out of gear along with the check engine light came on. I scanned the vehicle and pulled a code for the transmission output sensor. Took the vehicle to the dealership where they said they found coolant in my transmission and I was outside of the previous extended warranty and they've never seen this before. They told me I needed a whole new transmission and radiator. And nissan wouldn't cover any of the damages due to it being out of the last extended warranty that was added to the vehicle. Now they want to charge me $6,756 to repair my vehicle I've owed for less than a week.

Filed Jun 17, 2013 · Engine, Transmission · 102,950 miles · PA

I was driving my truck on a two lane road at approximately 40 MPH when the truck started to shake and shutter and would not shift properly. I was almost rear ended on a bend in the road because of the reduced speed I had to drive to keep the truck from shaking. I have researched my nissan frontier's transmission issue and it appears to be a cross contamination issue where the transmission cooler leaks allowing transmission fluid and radiator coolant to mix causing damage to the transmission. I have not driven the truck since the incident for fear of a total transmission failure which has happend to other nissan frontier owners causing them to be standed on the roadway. Nissan seems to not want to recall the trucks for the cross contamination issue which I feel puts peoples lives in danger.

Filed Dec 6, 2012 · Engine, Transmission · 51,100 miles · AZ

As I am driving, the transmission will not shift at 40 MPH. I pull over and find out that it will not go into reverse, either. I drive over to the nissan dealership and find out that the part of the radiator that connects to the tranny has cracked and dumped all of the radiator fluid into the tranny, killing it. I need a new radiator and transmission. Nissan is covering the costs (for repairs but not alternate transportation for the week that it is taking to fix this) but upon returning home and looking online, I found out that nissan has known about this problem for about 5 years and instead of doing a recall (costing lots of money), they extended the warranty on the radiator assembly from 3 years/36,000 miles to 8 years/96,000 miles hoping that problems will occur after that time and then they are off the hook for repairs. How dangerous could this have been under different circumstances. I am angry and disgusted with the way nissan has handled a problem they know could have caused a serious safety risk.

Filed Aug 22, 2010 · Electrical, Tires · TN

First noticeable complaint is the automatic transmission that does not shift back down in lower gear when climbing a hill. It jerks and shakes at that moment.secondly, the tire pressure sensor does not go off after correcting the tire pressure and keeping it constant. Were told the dealer will have to reset,which they did once and it happened again so for 2 years we have just lived with it, keeping check on tire pressure the old way. Last but definitely not least for this is the cost factor involved, is the alignment cannot be done due to needing to purchase and have installed 4 camber kits! Nissan should have done this already for a $25,000 vehicle!! Oh and finally this just happened but the rear passenger power window switch went completely out!