2008 Nissan Sentra: CVT failure

Filed Nov 27, 2020 · Acceleration · 166,000 miles · NJ

There the code of p1778 that keeps coming up on about a CVT and ifs affecting the drive and strain the transmission I dont understand the issue is recurring.and this happen while driving on the highway. You can feel the car hesitant

Filed Aug 6, 2019 · Engine · OK

On june 20, 2016, I took my car into a nissan certified dealership to have the transmission redone under the extended warranty that nissan did for the CVT engine. The car drove fine and then in the beginning of august 2019 just 3 yrs later and 40,00 miles on the new transmission, the transmission is messing up again and we are told that we have to replace the transmission for the second time at our cost. After doing some research I found out that there was a service bulletin sent out to the technician on august 15, 2014 stating that a 2007-2012 sentra will need a transmission cooler added to the CVT to prevent it from overheating. The nissan dealership did not put that on our car when we had our transmission redone under their extended warranty in 2016, and now because of their lack of responsibility our transmission is out, and nissan is not wanting to make it right.

Filed Feb 13, 2019 · Transmission · 124,040 miles · MO

The vehicle was in motion coming off the highway and onto city street. The torque converter gave out and the vehicle began sputtering at stop signs and light, and then thrusting forward jolting toward traffic. I nearly had two other vehicles rear end me during sputtering, and I nearly hit a vehicle in front of me when the car thrust forward violently. I turned in to the nearest automotive repair shop who told me my torque converter blew and I was very lucky to have not been in an accident. I have owned this vehicle 82 days and now have to do an entire transmission rebuild, which after extensive research I have found this is very common with a CVT transmission. I feel like this is something nissan should address, as I endangered the lives of my children, myself, and other drivers/passengers on the road. The car has been regularly maintained and has only one previous owner. I did not even drive 2,000 miles before this incident occurred, and I fully believe these constant variable transmissions pose a threat to anyone operating a vehicle, and that this is grounds for a factory recall or at the least additional safety warnings. Thank you.

Filed Sep 18, 2015 · Transmission · 90,000 miles · VA

On vacation left roanoke, va headed to gatlinburg, tn on the interstate just before getting off at the tn exit the transmission starts slipping, then stops working completely. Contacted the local tn nissan dealership. Car was under warranty, all servicing documentation was provided supporting the transmission warranty.(you must have it serviced at some set number of miles or the warranty is void on the transmission.) we were advised the transmission would have to be replaced with a brand new transmission. The nissan dealership was unable to give us a rental, as they were already all out, for some event. We had to find our own way for vacation and getting home. (thankfully we had some friends that were traveling with us. 6 people in one car plus luggage!) went back got the car. Now this year we again leave for vacation and now we have an issue, CVT is going into limp mode is what I have heard it called. Car will not go over 55 MPH. Contact the dealership when we returned. 3 weeks later a call and we are told they know about this issue in these models but they have no way to fix this issue even though its a new transmission, fluid changes help he says, and these cars don't like when there are 4 persons in the car. Really a brand new transmission and it has a problem they knew about but was still installed, as a warranty replacement. Broken transmission replaced with a known bad transmission?

Filed Oct 2, 2012 · Transmission · 67,672 miles · CA

This is the third transmission installed on this vehicle. After 67,672 miles the first one broke down where the car had to be towed 95 miles to the nissan dealer. The second one broke down at 68,845, only 2 weeks after getting it back, 173 miles. Nissan extended their warranty on this CVT transmission, because of the problems, from 5 years 60,000 miles to 10 years 120,000 miles. Since the transmission broke down at 7,672 miles from the initial warranty, the bbb advised the lemon law cannot be applied since it is after the initial warranty 5 years 60,000 miles even though it was extended. Nissan being aware of this will not buy back the vehicle but just keeps replacing the transmissions until 10 years 120,00 miles. The CVT transmissions on this car keeps burning up where they no longer work. It is very unsafe and unreliable to take on any long trips. They are aware of this problem and just keep replacing it with rebuilt transmissions.

Filed Jan 22, 2010 · Transmission · 26,000 miles · NJ

At 26k miles a very loud, grumbling, droning noise started coming from the vehicle's transmission. Apparent at 25mph. The CVT transaxle assembly was replaced by the dealer but the noise is still present . It is worse than before. The noise inside the passenger cabin is unbearable,deafening specially at higher speeds. It feels like the vehicle is stuck in low gear. It is very difficult to hear other cars outside as I have to increase the volume of my radio and open windows to try to mask the noise. Similar complaints have been filed with other nissan models using the same type of transaxle.