I purchased my nissan november of 2011. On january 7th 2012 as I was driving going down hill on hwy 70 in blue springs going on a on ramp which is down hill going approxamately 45-50 MPH and my engine out of no where just shut off while I was driving. I had my wife and three kids in the car with me and this is a serious safety issue. I am in the marine corps stationed in arizona and I had to go back to my duty station there. This occurance has happened many more times with my wife, on one incident almost caused a serious accident (which could of killed someone) and my wife and children where she was driving in the middle lane and randomly the engine cutoff on her on highway 70 going about 70mph and it wasnt even on a hill it was on flat pavement by the grace of god she made it over to the side of the hwy and once stopped she couldnt restart for about 10 minutes I asked her if she was out of fuel she said no it had about half a tank. My wife is terrified to drive this car terrified and she has to drive it to take my son to school and I am not even able to be there to help address the situation. This is a serious issue and I am contacting nissan corporate and addressing it. I am extremely worried for my families safety and im making payments on a vehicle that seems to be a death trap. Anything you can do to help me and my family would be greatly appreciated.
2011 Nissan Quest engine complaints
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I was approaching a red light, applying brakes, so car was going about 2mph when it suddenly began shaking and rumbling. I was on a small down hill incline. The engine just cut off and the car did not allow me to press on the brakes any longer. The car continued rolling through the red light/ intersection when I applied the emergency brake to stop the vehicle. Put car in park and attempted restarting 4 times, but it would not allow me to press my foot on the brake in order to start the car. After 4 attempts, I was able to get the car to start. Fuel indicator told me I had 33 miles to empty. I drove another 10 miles and filled the gas.
As my wife drove our brand new quest down a slope to make a left hand turn, the quest died. She stopped the car and tried to restart it to no avail. When I arrived I had her attempt to start as I listened to the engine, it was turning and the car had power but it was acting like it had no fuel. The gauge showed a little over 1/4 tank. When the tow truck arrived he took us to a gas staton first, after fueling the car started. When I submitted it to the quest dealership the service chief said this was the third time he's seen this happen in the past month! The fact that nissan has clear evidence of a problem that can prove very, very, dangerous yet has not issued a recall is very disturbing. Please address, thank you.
I was driving down a moderate incline on low fuel when the engine stopped running. I was able to safely pull to the curb and restart the engine. I took the car into the nissan dealership to be looked at and was told there were 3 other cars in line with the same problem. Nissan is well aware of the problem. I was then told not to let the fuel tank get below 1/2 tank.
Engine will stall and sometimes not restart when driving down a steep grade when fuel tank has 1/4 tank left.
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