2017 Nissan Murano: CVT failure

Filed Nov 19, 2025 · Transmission · AR

Have noticed when turning a corner vehicle has some slight jerking motions before it picks up speed. Vehicle also has a whining/humming sound that it’s making somewhere in the transmission (CVT). I haven’t ever received a recall or CVT extended warranty about this vehicle before but I received this warranty in the mail last week 11-12-25..This warranty would have covered my problems with the vehicle but I was told it expired last year.. Why send it to me this year and it’s useless

Filed Oct 14, 2025 · TX

The brake fluid continues to leak the CVT affected therefore the car only drives backwards. It has under 70,000 miles. It completely stopped while driving in the middle of traffic. I had to have it towed. There was no notice of this issue prior to this incident.

Filed Jul 24, 2025 · Transmission · TN

Transmission randomly at the blue stopped. The car has a CVT engine and I see that there’s a recall on it. I also received a letter in the mail stating that there was a recall.

Filed Apr 10, 2025 · Electrical · MO

Rear lift-gate failed to latch. Paid for assessment and repair in August 2024. I was told it could occur again that there is hatch issue with this vehicle. Eight months later, the rear lift-gate failed to latch again. I took it back to the dealership. While driving, it is unsafe as the warning lights are flashing on the dash and an alarm is screeching for the entirety of the trip. You cannot safely drive a vehicle when the door will not latch. After inspection of the vehicle, they advised to repair the lock assembly($770) though $180 was paid at first assessment . I was told this may not be the final solution to the problem. This time there was no discussion of the hatch issue with this vehicle. Hmmm, there is an online forum for other Nissan owners with the same problem. I never received any warning lamps prior to the issue. The rear lift hatch was working until it wasn't. Thank goodness I was not on a road trip (I have two adult children who live out of state). It is unnerving and unsafe to drive while all of the warning lights and sounds are ON all while your rear door is unable to latch. In my opinion, this is a SAFETY issue. There have been two class action suits on the 2017 Murano. One for foggy headlamps and one for the CVT transmission. I did not join the suits. At the time I was contacted, my headlamps were not foggy, now they are. Knock on wood, I have no issues with my transmission. I can drive safely with foggy headlamps. I can NOT drive safely when my rear door will not latch. There are 3 buttons for this feature (the dash, the rear door, and the glove box). The button in the glove box allows you to turn off the auto lift feature. Even when you turn it off, the door will not latch. In my opinion, there is a faulty design. This should be a RECALL, not a repair. I am long past the days of soccer and basketball tournaments where a rear door gets a workout. It's just me. Having a door close and latch seems fundamental to the safety of a vehicle.

Filed Feb 19, 2025 · Transmission · TN

About 1 month ago my car started dragging going up hills. The RPMs were high but the car wouldn't accelerate. On flat surfaces it would not accelerate faster than 40 mph and smoke was coming out of the exhaust. It would not shift gears or accelerate. Firestone had my car for a week but said it could only be fixed by a Nissan dealership because it had to be flashed. I paid a little over $900 to the dealership for them to tell me they don't know why my car won't shift or accelerate correctly. I asked if it was the CVT and they said they didn't know. They put Blue Devil in my engine which helped stop smoke coming out of the engine but it still doesn't shift and RPMs stay high. My son had to take my car to work and when he got on the highway he tried to accelerate to avoid getting hit, and again, my car wouldn't shift but the RPMs stayed high.

Filed May 29, 2021 · Engine · TX

CVT Transmission stops accelerating at some point after driving. RPMs don’t increase and vehicle struggles to maintain speed. Speed only increases or decreases due to incline or decline of the road. It’s dangerous as it mostly occurs on freeways/highways. Problem has been happening for 2+ years. Dealer cannot confirm as no check engine light code is created and problem ceases to exist only after engine is turned off. Vehicle is available to be inspected.

Filed Sep 25, 2019 · Transmission · 30,800 miles · TN

This has happen numerous times, the transmission a CVT has big problems that has caused my wife and I great concern. When we go to take off and really have to step down on the peddle because of traffic flow. We have semi's traveling on our road and other roads, when this occurred the first time after purchasing the car we thought it was bad gas, but since then we have been in critical situations because the transmission is not working. The transmission in question is very unsafe in this vehicle it almost stops for a few seconds. We have seconds away from 18 wheelers crashing into us, or cars where you have to pull out in traffic. What bothers me is my wife drives this vehicle at least once a day. Sometimes with my daughter, and grandson. Where we live big trucks hauling wood to the paper mill have almost crashed into us on numerous occasions, same with cars.some even showing road rage when my wife is minding her own business, and same with me. This problem has caused us to know that the transmission is doing this on a regular basis. When the car is in motion, we have even been put in the medium because of this CVT problem, and we believe by looking on the web now, and asking the mechanic we always use has said the same. We have had this car since july 2018. We know now it isn't bad gas, or the injectors needing clean, or the transmission oil needing change. We however know that with this safety problem it will be just a matter of time if not us but someone driving this type of vehicle will either get hurt, or may start causing people to die. We live right off of a two lane road, sometimes it is when we are pulling out, sometimes when we are going on the expressway way, sometimes when passing slower traffic, or on a city intersection. It acts at first like the engine is going to stall, seconds count in driving, we don't feel safe in this car anymore.

Filed Jul 17, 2019 · Transmission · 33,000 miles · WI

Vehicle has 35,700 miles on it. Bought the vehicle june of 2018 with 30,000 miles on it. While driving 55 MPH or faster and you go and try to pass slower traffic whether it's on the highway or freeway and you turn the wheel to change lanes while pressing down on the accelerator to speed up, the transmission does not down shift and speed up. The RPM gauge increases and the engine revs high but the vehicle does not increase in speed. After you straighten out the steering wheel the vehicle all of a sudden down shifts and takes off. It is dangerous for people pulling out into traffic to pass cause the vehicle will not increase in speed and it leaves you tooling along in oncoming traffic. It is under factory warranty and I took vehicle into the nissan dealership. I was told everything was fine and there wasn't anything that could be done because there wasn't any trouble codes stored in the vehicles system. It does this at least once per month and no trouble lights come on inside the vehicle. I have made multiple complaints to the dealer about this and nothing has come of it. I have made multiple inquiries about this online to nissan directly and vehicle mechanic type sites. I haven't heard anything back from nissan themselves but other mechanic type sites have come to the same conclusion, it has to be the a computer module or traffic control system. Something to do with the computer system or modules themselves. No trouble codes therefore nothing is wrong, is nissan's stance. For what I have read, other people have had similar problems with this CVT transmissions. This has been an ongoing problem for me and my family and nissan has not been any help, which surprises me. This is a safety issue. If you pull out to pass in oncoming traffic and the vehicle won't accelerate it is dangerous. If you pull into.the left lane on the freeway to pass and can't, it is dangerous!

Filed Dec 24, 2018 · Transmission · 200 miles · IL

When making sharp turn (left or right) into fast moving traffic and driving straight after the turn, while pushing accelerator pedal hard, the RPM will go up high but the speed will not (it will increase very slowly). The RPM would stay high (5000 to 6000) there will be lots of noise from the drive train but nothing will happen to lower the RPM. In order to make the CVT work properly after that, the accelerator pedal has to be fully released and the RPM will have to go down. I can replicate this condition most of the time (it depends on whether the accelerator pedal is pushed hard enough while turning), and it has been happening ever since purchase of this car. At the dealership garage I was told that since there is no fault code they can't help and refused to take a ride in the car.