2014 Nissan Murano: jerking or lurching

5 of the 145 complaints about the 2014 Nissan Murano describe jerking or lurching.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 3%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 10 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Jerking or lurching by model year

2026
1
2025
2
2020
1
2019
1
2018
1
2017
1
2016
3
2015
17
2014
5
2013
1
2012
4
2011
2
2010
3
2009
7
2007
15
2006
21
2005
11
2004
25
2003
48

What owners say

Filed Apr 26, 2023 · Acceleration, Fuel system · CA

Problems with Nissan Murano CVT transmission - Transmission slips with loss of power/acceleration while in traffic, then jerks or lurches forward. No codes (DTC) registered for the symptoms. Dangerous for myself and other drivers as this occurs without warning. Fortunate not to end up in an accident. Nissan manuals do not recommend precautions or service for this. Now faced with all repair costs.

Filed Mar 8, 2023 · GA

Unknown, was no accident,transmission stalling,jerking,pulling slow transmission get over heated will not move,takes off real slow RPM go way up and you can only drive20 miles,and you get stuck in traffic, it's and accident waiting to happen,not safety at all when you stuck in middle of freeway cause transmission stalled.

Filed Oct 17, 2019 · Transmission · 100,000 miles · ID

When driving on a long trip, with the cruise-control set, the car suddenly lurched and lost power. The speed reduced and it came out of cruise. I had just started up an incline, so I didn't know if that was the problem. A short time after that the check engine light came on. The transmission started to have issues. It would not go into overdrive and would over rev. We were able to make it to our destination and we took it to a mechanic to have the check engine light checked. The mechanic said it was the transmission and that they could not repair it. We called a transmission shop and they said that they could not repair it either. They had not had any training on how to repair it and that the transmission would have to be replaced. They also said that they had other nissan muranos come in with the same issue. This could be a serious safety issue that could if this happened on a highway with heavy traffic. We made it to the second part of the trip but we had to baby the car. The car would not make it home with the car and we had to have it shipped back. I checked and there is not a recall for this issue.

Filed Jul 31, 2019 · Transmission · 62,000 miles · CT

Was driving on vacation from connecticut to south carolina on 8/3/18. Just as we arrived there, the car began jerking at random times while driving and eventually just slowed down to a crawl. We managed to get it to a local nissan dealership and they informed us the transmission failed (we had 62k miles on the car - 2k miles past the warranty). The dealer told us that it likely failed due to the high temperatures the transmission experienced from such a long drive. We paid to have it replaced. Then on 7/26/19, the car experienced the same thing at 76,000 miles. While driving, it began to not accelerate correctly and eventually just started to crawl at a slow pace. We managed to get the car off the side of the road and took it to a nissan dealership. They told us that the transmission had failed.. The replacement transmission we put in the year prior came with a 1 year/12k mile warranty. While it failed within a year, we were 2k miles over the warranty limit. We are now paying to have it replaced again. Two failures withing a year period costing over 8500. I know nissan has had CVT transmission issues with other vehicles, I believe there is also a problem with the ones in the murano...

Filed Aug 10, 2015 · Brakes, Fuel system · 11,000 miles · MO · crash · 8 injuries

I attempted to make a right to turn into the parking space at the restaurant and the truck jerked forward. I pressed the brake pad and quickly noticed that the truck did not stop. I said out loud, its not stopping! The passenger in my truck then leaned over and noticed that my foot was in fact on the break pad. I made the statement again, its not stopping! The truck rolled over the concrete parking block and proceeded into the building. I was pumping the break peddle to the floor at this point. I could hear the engine accelerating as I was pumping the break peddle to the floor and the air bags never deployed. I yelled uncontrollably because I could not believe what had just happened. I remembered yelling out loudit wouldnt stop.oooo god.it wouldnt stopwhy didnt it stop!