I have had my murano 1 year and had no problems until now. It is a 2003 and has 22,000 miles on it. We were on vacation about 350 miles from home and I noticed what I thought was the transmission acting up. It just continued to get worse. I would stop at a red light and depress the accelator and nothing would happen until about 1 minute later. Luckily we made it in to a nissan dealer and they checked it out and got with nissan tech support. They verified it was the transmission. They are going to replace the entire transmission with a new one. Thank goodness it is under warranty! The nissan dealership rented me a car to get back home from vacation and we will have to drive 350 miles back to pick up my murano in about 3 to 4 days.
2003 Nissan Murano transmission complaints
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Dt: the contact owns a 2003 nissan morano. The vehicle intermediatley will not accelerate. Its like you have to pump the gas pedal to get it to go. Took to dealer 5 or 6 times. They reset the computer and moved time to the transmission. After that they keep saying it was fixed.
With no warning on a crowded interstate the vehicle lost all power to the drivetrain. Vehicle would rev in park but would do nothing in drive or reverse. Very busy interestate and almost hit in rear as car could not moe out of traffic. Dealer says CVT transmission failed. Dealer can not tell me what was wrong with the CVT and just says it needs replaced.
Transfer case for awd failure at 66,000 miles (awd function used less than 10 times in vehicles history). Observered gringing poping niose and locked up viechele. The transfer case has been back-ordered for seven weeks. There was no indication of a problem prior to failure. Concerned regarding failure in highway driving
Transfer case for awd failure at 66,000 miles (awd option used less than approximately 12 times in vehicle's history). Gringing poping niose and locked up viechele. Transfer case has been back-ordered for seven weeks! There was no indication of a problem prior to failure.
In february 2005 the alternator failed to charge the battery and the car slowed to a complete stop and the battery died in the middle of a busy intersection. I had to tow the car to the nearest dealership and the car was repaired 48 hours later. In march 2005 the gas tank lid wouldn't open and the car was running out of gas. I drove the car to the dealership and it took 48 hours to repair. However, the "repair" was done by prying the lid open and I still have not recieved the new part. In may 2005 the transmission failed in the middle of a busy intersection and I had to tow the car to the dealership. They still have the car and expect to have it for two weeks at least. They cannot guarentee that they will pay for the rental car costs which will amount to at least $350 at $25 a day. This car only has 35,000 miles on it.
Battery and brake indicator lights on dashboard came on. Next evening (approximately 10 miles later), the lights dimmed and electrical accessories failed while driving down a 4 lane road. Moments later the car went into "limp mode" (less than 5 MPH). I was able to navigate off the road, but couldn't move very far. The engine would run fine (while the car was in park or neutral), but would immediately go into limp mode when shifted into gear. Following a couple of restarts ... The battery finally went completely dead and couldn't restart engine. Towed to nissan ... Replaced alternator.
2003 nissan murano transmission failure with less than 24,000 miles. Transmission failed, wheels locked, unable to move or push the vehicle. Thankfully, it happened approaching a red light, no accident involved.
Transfer case for awd failure 2nd time in 26,000 miles (1st 8,000 miles, 2nd 26,000 miles). In both cases gringing poping niose and locked up viechele had to be towed in to dealership. There was no indication of a problem prior to failure.
Cracked transfer case occurred twice on 2003 nissan murano; aug 27, 2004 & sep 24 2003. Concern is future incidents may occur while driving on interstate highways causing accidents. Other internet site forums indicated failures but did not submit complaints to the federal safety agency.
The transfer case and driveshft had to be replaced due to a horrible noise that started occuring at 10200 miles on the vehicle.
Three separate incidents of cd-changer/player failure, each time unit was replaced with a "new" one. Two failures of rear cup holder. One failure of vehicle alternator at approximately 19,000 miles. Most recent failure was the ipdm control module at approximately 20,000 miles. Mysterious ongoing transmission hesitation, cause unknown.
The transmission in my nissan murano failed on april 25 2004. The dealership and nissan, to this point ,have been completely uncooperative. The car as of this date may 25 2004 is still sitting on their lot untouched.
2003 nissan murano se 4wd has several issues. Firstly the right side sun visor clip is defective and will not hold visor in place: 3 trips to dealer have not resolved this issue as they never have the part. Secondly the CVT transmission presents a problem on holding the vehicle in place on a uphill incline...if you don't brake, the vehicle just rolls back, as opposed to standard auto transmission which locks, and prevents significant rollback.
While attempting to reverse out of driveway vehicle did not accelerate. Consumer had vehicle towed to the dealer. Mechanic informed the consumer that transmission failed. *ak consumer also had driveshaft and differential problems.
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