Vehicle stutters and jolts when needing to accelerate quickly. Rpms shoot up to 7-8 on inclines at 60-70mph when cruise control is engaged. Vehicle stutters at slow accelerations after stop signs and red lights. On 2 separate instances, while in motion, vehicle revs to 4+ rpms but is unable to accelerate past 40mph. Vehicle has 77k miles and is current on all services. Took to nissan dealer and they diagnosed a failed transmission with repair of $4800.
2013 Nissan Sentra transmission complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. While driving low speeds, the vehicle stalled intermittently. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to town center nissan (2310 barrett lakes blvd, kennesaw, ga 30144, (770) 423-9691) where it was diagnosed that the transmission and gear shift needed to be repaired. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 56,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. While driving 20-25 MPH, the odometer displayed incorrect readings and the transmission slipped then the vehicle decelerated. The vehicle hesitated while in traffic and the gear shift would not go into the proper gears. Also, the check engine indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that a transmission range performance was needed. The vehicle was repaired two months later. The dealer and manufacturer were not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 67,411.
Shifting frequently locking up while driving causing distraction and inability to accelerate. Unable to accelerate at traffic lights or in threatening situations. On one occasion I was unable to properly accelerate to pass a semi-truck while facing oncoming traffic causing me to slam on my brakes to avoid an accident. Every time I drive the vehicle the transmission dangerously averts my attention from safe driving.
Im currently the second owner on what I thought was a good vehicle. I had no clue that so many people had the issues I was having. It started two weeks after I had putchased my vehicle. I would accelerate like normal and take my foot off of the gas pedal to coast to a stop at a red light l, the light changes and turned green. I would reapply my foot to the gas pedal and the CVT would thud so I took it to be repaired and was told "it was a normal function of a CVT" not knowing any better as it was my first CVT transmission I kept driving. Now im told my a CVT specialist that that thud I was feeling is the begining of my transmission braking and it needs to be replaced. I cannot see how nissan expects someone to pay for a product that so many of its vehicles have major problems with. There are thousands of people online complaning of the same issues. It needs to be investigated.
When driving my vehicle it starts over revving when changing speeds on local roads. I also had a few instances where the vehicle would randomly not go over 40 MPH on the highway (possibly the vehicle is going into some kind of fail safe mode) and would rev heavily. I reached out to nissan and they advised it sounds like a CVT transmission problem, which is a known issue with a lot of the nissan vehicles. However, they have not created a recall for the 2013 nissan sentra and advised they do not plan to do so. *dt *js
We bought our 2013 nissan sentra in 2015 from a nissan dealership. The price tag was somewhere around 20-22 grand. I was expecting that we would be keeping this car for 10+ years. Unfortunately, nissan failed to tell us about the cars failing transmission when they sold us the car. While driving on a daily basis, the car would oddly pull. But when test driving the car we were assured that this was normal and caused by the CVT transmission. 3 1/2 years later while I was running a normal errand in town, the car failed to accelerate. I tried pulling out into traffic on a heavily trafficked road and had to swerve to the side of the road because I was pressing on the gas and it was not accelerating. I managed to get the car to move again, but I slowly drove on backroads to get the car to the nissan in our town. Once there, they did a diagnostic test to see what is wrong and guess what? The transmission has failed. Now tell me, why does a 5 1/2 year old car already have transmission failure?? We have only owned the vehicle for 3 1/2 years!! And our warranty ran out at 100,000 miles. We are at 113,000. I believe this car had transmission issues from the first day that we bought the vehicle.I think these cars are not reliable and should be recalled! This car looks perfect and is now worthless.
I have had to have my transmission replaced 1 time already for it cracking without being in an accident. It would accelerate randomly and wouldn't accelerate when I pushed on the gas. I'm now having the same problem and almost got into a car accident on an expressway because it wouldn't accelerate and when I got off the main road it accelerated without me even touching the gas peddle.
Starting around 75,000 miles, my nissan sentra started stuttering, stalling, and losing power because of the transmission. My 2013 nissan sentra's transmission failed on 4/11/2019 at 83,975 miles (1 year and 23k miles over the warranty). Over the past year, this transmission has been a public and personal safety hazard. I was not comfortable driving this with my children in the car, or on highways in fear of what happened on 4/11 would happen on a major highway. The fact that something so important and expensive would fail on a car so fast proves that this part of the vehicle needs to be investigated and recalled.
When I press the pedal gas the car doesnt work well .I cant drive higher than 40 miles because the transmition doesnt running well and sometime I have to pull over the car cause it doesnt even run 20 mile .eache stops signal I do is even worst.all this notes are in the city streets I cant drive on a highway because it doesnt run over 40 miles
I only had this vehicle for a year now I have 43 thousand miles and my transmission has gone out. I've been doing research and a lot of people are complaining of the same issue . I shouldn't be responsible for this
Cvt transmission needs replaced at 90k miles. Google search reveals exorbitant number of nissans with CVT trannys have failed multiple times. Nissan continues to use CVT's. Why???? Car revs high when started - the length of time steadily increases. Rpm's show rapid and significant fluctuation. Fearful to drive it more than the few miles it must be driven back and forth to work and to run errands.
At 70,000 miles the transmission completely quit working. My daughter was backing out of a driveway and became stuck in the road. Car would not go forward or reverse. Pressing the accelerator peddle had no effect. Exactly the same problem described in countless posts online. Cvt transmission replacement cost quoted at 4000 dollars. Almost the value of the car.
'takata recall' when I recently got this car, at first I knew something was off because it wouldn't accelerate like a normal car and it wouldn't go pass by 30mph on the freeway. I let a couple of days passed by until the last day before I told the dealer , I was an entire day turning my car on and off thinking that it will stop glitching but I was on the freeway and I was causing a lot of traffic due to it's malfunction. After that, they took it to the dealer to get another transmission or system called the CVT transmisson, they actually did change the transmisson and after that it was working well but wasn't satisfied with it, it started loosing power and there's times when it doesn't want to accelerate and I have to push my foot all the way in which is scary because there's times where it just throws me off since I have no idea when it wants to accelerate like a normal car. Overall, they changed the CVT transmisson and I felt that it got worst and now I just don't feel comfortable with this car , I don't feel safe with it but the sad part is that I'm still paying for the car.
The car began to violently shake, was unable to accelerate while on the highway. Car rpms increased the car did not move. Traffic rapidly approaching behind me.dealership has informed me of transmission issue needs to be replaced. No warning sign, no check engine light forced to pull over at night on the side of the road.
The car would not accelerate. The gradual breaking light was on. I noticed my back passenger tail light had moister in it. So I took it po ur and dumped about 5 oz. Of water out of it. I bought a new taillight. It seemed to fix the problem now my transmission is slipping from 1st to second gear. The rpms jump from 2000 to 3000 as it shifts and steady out it's been getting worse as the days go by. I'm finding similar issues online but no solution other than transmission replacement. It has 83000 miles on it. Because of the taillight issue and it not accelerating I feel like theres some kind of wiring issue to the transmission. It's not throwing any codes and the dealer says nothing's wrong with it.
The CVT transmission slips at various rpms and speeds. Traveling down a hill in the city with a steep grade the transmission will down shift and throw the rpms up to 5k where you can barely stop it. It slips to where basically it has no power to the wheels when driving on the interstate at 70mph at 3k rpms. It is like you threw it into neutral. There is no power to the wheels but engine speed shoots to 6k rpms and car speed decreases rapidly. This happens daily. Several times a day. I have taken the car to the dealer and been told it is the way the CVT transmission operates. That is a bunch of mess no transmission is meant to slip out of gear. My personal mechanic says he replaces 3-5 a week of the CVT transmissions with as little as 40-50k miles on them. These things are a death trap. My car has 107k on it and I've been complaining to the nissan dealer since 20k. There should be a recall before there are serious injuries from the loss of power of surging. I have a 3 month old and this is my only car to get to work. Dealer wants 4.5k and mechanic wants 3.8k. I'm still making payments on the thing for another year.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. While driving 35 MPH, the vehicle decelerated without warning. The vehicle was taken to busam nissan (1501, 3907, e kemper rd, cincinnati, oh 45246) where it was diagnosed that the transmission failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and informed the contact that the VIN was not included in a recall. The failure mileage was 113,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. The contact stated that the continuously variable transmission (CVT) failed to change gears. When the accelerator pedal was depressed, the vehicle was extremely slow to accelerate. Crest nissan (6600 tx-121, frisco, tx 75034, 1‑855‑878‑7690) diagnosed that the CVT needed to be replaced. The manufacturer indicated that, due to the title being salvaged, the contact would need to replace the part. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 98,200.
Car does not shift correctly, looses speed engine revs high.
2013 nissan sentra was running perfectly fine, and out of the blue, my engine basically failed in the middle of the street, completely. Thankfully, no cars were near and I was able to drift to the side. Thankfully it wasn't on a busy highway where a major accident could have occurred. I took it to the local nissan dealership where they tested it and it is indeed a CVT failure. It needs a brand new CVT transmission. This car has 44,000 miles on it, and is just over 5 years old. It is dangerous to myself and others to have this car on the road with these engines. There are so many cases of 2013 CVT failing, but yet no recall. Nissan needs to step their game up like they have on previous years that included CVT and extend their warranty. There is no reason a perfect good car should have this problem already. This car goes from point a to point b, as it is basically a work car. Please, please consider this, as well as all the others. This is completely unsafe and unrealistic, and nissan is doing nothing about it.
While traveling on I-95 in miami at 55 MPH, my car suddenly stopped accelerating and wouldn't pass 20 MPH. I pushed down on the gas peddle and nothing would happen. I was extremely lucky to be on the middle lane and quickly shifted over to the far right on the emergency lane and turned off the car. I turned it back in and it worked fine. I didn't use the car for two days, and then when I tried again, it was giving the same issue where the car wouldn't accelerate and was making a weird noise which I never expierned before. I took to my trusted mechanic and he advised it was a CVT issue. I had to get the car towed to a certified nissan dealership as nissan agreed to consider possible financial assistance. Upon completion it was confirmed it was a CVT transmission issue and it would cost about $5,000 to repair with labor costs. Nissan has to given me back my car and it's now the 20th of february. My car has 99,450 miles, and has been in excellent condition with my maintenance. It's scary and unfortunate that we have been sold a defective car and nissan won't admit to it. There's a class action lawsuit open and still in court. I got an attorney involved who has taken up my case for further action against nissan. Consumer should be advised to stop driving this car asap! I am now looking to get a new car as I don't feel safe anymore driving this and I need a reliable and safe vehicle for work.
Cvt transmission problems car won't shift correctly went to nissan who advised me that it is the transmission and would cost $4011.10 to replace also went to holmes motor who is leasing me the vehicle for $17000 +$ 2000 buy out option at the end of lease and was told 18000 mile warranty would not apply because I have put 32000 miles on vehicle since start of lease..nissan also stated it's a 60000 mile warranty on vehicle but my vehicle has 77000 miles which I started leasing at 44259 miles. Also this situation occured while I was driving past the 900 block of decatur street montgomery alabama 36104 when I made it to red light I realeased my foot off gas slightly because light changed car jumped in gear and slammed into back of another vehicle which didn't do any damage to other car but knocked my bumper loose.
The transmission failed & I had lifetime warranty but nissan & the dealership doesn't want to cover their issues.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. The contact stated that the vehicle would not shift out of park. When the transmission returned to normal, the brakes seized and the brake pedal traveled to the floorboard when depressed. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to hanlees davis nissan (5009 chiles rd, davis, ca 95618, (530) 231-3000) where it was diagnosed that new cylinders and brake boosters needed to be installed. The transmission was also repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 62,000.
Cvt transmission fail at 64000 mi. Estimate repair 4400+tax
On january 17, 2019, our 2013 nissan sentra died in the middle of rush hour traffic and put my husband at risk for being hit. My husband was on baseline road in phoenix, close to I-10 freeway. Car died near driveway entrance by restaurant. Tow truck driver said it's CVT transmission. So did our repair person, interstate auto. The code at nissan also said it's a faulty CVT transmission, which they know about. There is extended warranty to 120,000 for some vehicles, but they conveniently said our VIN is not covered. We are at 119,000, so that's convenient for nissan. We then were referred to nissan consumer affairs and they said there's nothing they can do. They also said they had no idea we were the owners of the vehicle. We bought it from tempe auto nation in may of 2014, but it's a 2013 preowned certified. They told us the warranty was increased to 100,000 because of that, but they never let us know. They also said there is a recall from 2016, but we never got anything. Again, nissan said they did not know we were the owners until 1/21/19. That's a lie! We've had the car serviced. It was bought from tempe auto nation with 4400 miles on it. They have our info in computer system, but now can claim they did not know. We were the only ones that brought it in, no one else. So now the car is not drivable because of faulty CVT transmission that put my husband and I at safety risk every time he/we drove it. Especially not notifying us about passenger recall since 2016. Please let me know who we need to talk to next. Worst customer service ever! Caught in several lies! I'm attaching document that they claim they've never heard of or seen before - claim they don't know anything about faulty CVT transmissions. Asked where I got my info & I showed them. Also, you may google it - all over the place.
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan sentra. While driving approximately 20 MPH, the vehicle lunged forward. The contact stated that the vehicle experienced hard shifts between gears. The vehicle was taken to glendale nissan (located at 484 e n ave, glendale heights, il 60139, (630) 469-6100) to be diagnosed, but the dealer was unable to duplicate the failure or produce a fault code. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The manufacturer was notified. The approximate failure mileage was 66,000. *tr
This 2013 nissan sentra and its CVT have been garbage from the get-go. The transmission died while I was driving in the highway with my family in the car. Just died on the road, we are so lucky there wasn't an accident. Nissan was aware of the sentra transmission defect, and that the vehicles transmissions would require frequent repair. Despite this awareness, nissan continued to install the allegedly defective CVT. Lots of complains were made about this issues.
I gotten this vehicle from carmax at 53000 miles may of 2018. I took it back 2 days later with the transmission slipping they told me oh its fine. I even had a rental for a day. Now its january 2019 and at 74000 miles the transmission is slipping and jolting sometimes not giving power in the middle of the road. My car comes up as not a lemon car but I went to a mechanic near me he told me he use to work for nissan and by even testing my car my transmission needs to be fixed and it will start again in the next 6 months after repair. My car is not safe to be driving nor will I pay for a vehicle that wont get my bills paid.
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