2015 Nissan Sentra: stuck in gear or won't shift

Filed Aug 3, 2024 · Acceleration, Transmission · TN

Bought 2015 Nissan Sentra SR from Nissan West in Dickson, TN. The car didn't even a lot of miles on it. Not even a month after having the car, the transmission went out. Car started acting up on the interstate. Would not shift gears, wouldn't go over a certain amount of speed, almost caused us to be hit multiple times. Finally got it to Nissan West dealership where they did confirm transmission was no good. Nissan West, reworked the transmission instead of giving us a new transmission. Now, over a year and 3 months later, the transmission went out again. Has been confirmed by Nissan West in Dickson, TN. The transmission had only a little over 10,000 miles on it. This time I was pulling out onto a busy street when the car out of the blue would not go forwards or backwards. Luckily we did not get hit and we had to push the car out of the middle of the road.

Filed Mar 27, 2024 · Acceleration, Body · PR

The car began to jerk when driven. One day, it stopped working; the engine was still running but it wouldn't shift gears. The transmission was repaired, and several parts were replaced. However, the car still jerks when reaching 50 miles per hour, the horn doesn't sound, not even the alarm, and it makes a loud noise when making a tight turn.

Filed Feb 27, 2024 · Airbags, Seats · OK · crash

1. Front passenger side seat fails to activate the air bag once a passenger has occupied the seat, and buckled up. The airbag "off" indication light remains illuminated at all times, and if it isn't being activated, may cause bodily harm, injury, or death to any passenger of the vehicle in the unfortunate event of a collision. Vehicle was requested to be checked out at Lorenzo Nissan in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in November 2023, but was refused. FRONT PASSENGER SEAT, FRONT PASSENGER AIRBAG, FRONT PASSENGER AIRBAG INDICATION LIGHT ••••••••••••••••••••••• 2. 2015 Sentra CVT transmission slips, shakes and stalls. On numerous occurrence this has caused near tragic collisions with multiple vehicles. One such instance forced the vehicle into 'limp mode' in a high speed area of a busy freeway and nearly caused numerous vehicles to collide into the stalled Sentra at rates of speed over 70 MPH. Furthermore, the 2015 Sentra has an issue shifting from park, and will not move out of park, even with the brake applied, unless the gear release button is applied. Vehicle was requested to be examined by Lorenzo Nissan in November 2023, but the dealership refused to inspect any possible safety or equipment issues without the promise of purchasing a new Nissan from their dealership. POWERTRAIN, CVT TRANSMISSION, AUTOMATIC GEAR-SHIFT INDICATION, LIMP MODE, NO WARNING LIGHTS ILLUMINATED

Filed Oct 29, 2023 · Transmission · FL

CVT is failing leaving the car unable to start and runs rough. Will not shift. Been towed several times.

Filed Feb 13, 2023 · Acceleration, Transmission · TX

For a while now it jerks or pulls, and it only goes up to 1-2 gears like it doesn't want to accelerate. It doesn't shift gear properly more like transmission issues. There is no power.

Filed Mar 29, 2020 · Transmission · 60,000 miles · FL

These problems occur randomly: transmission will not shift from low gear and these events happen while driving. They can happen when driving on a highway at 60 miles an hour or in the city. All of a sudden the car goes to low gear and stays there until I stop and turn the car off. Engine light comes on while driving and will stay on for days and then it goes away, only to come back again several days later. This has been going on for over 2 years, nissan mechanics are at a loss and have not been able to pinpoint a solution.

Filed Mar 27, 2020 · Transmission · 42,000 miles · PA

Constant RPM jumping every time you try to do highway speed (65 to 70 on my interstate and turnpike). The problem started at 42000 miles. I took it to tom hesser nissan in dunmore pa. They tell me nothing is wrong but they needed 4 hrs to reprogram the ECM. The car was taken back several times. Each time they say they are addressing the problem but they report to nissan that there is no problem, even after having my car for 4 days in their shop. They constantly say nothign is wrong. Nissan consumer affairs asid they would cover the warranty extension. When I contacted them about it, they denied it. Was told that I have to pay $250 for the dealership to look at it but they would only put in for a out of warranty replacement if it fails completely. Was told out of warranty replacement consists of me coming up with $4000 for the transmission and they would write off the labor. Nissan and tom hesser nissan performed breach of contract under the warranty because they would not properly address the issue while it was under the bumper-to-bumper warranty. Car is still giving me issues after 3 years. I requested that nissan buys back the vehicle but they said they will only give me $4200 trade in value for it and I would have to pay off the remaining loan balance. The dealership and nissan would not honor the bumper to bumper powertrain warranty on the vehicle and won't help until after the vehicle is out of warranty. On the highway she bucks at highway speeds on any incline and revs from 3000rpm to 5000rpm back down then up to 6000rpm and then goes into a limp mode and cuts power.

Filed Jun 13, 2019 · Electrical, Engine · 43,000 miles · IL

The car wouldn't accelerate immediately after coming off a complete stop. Once I turn the car off and when to turn it back on and put it in gear, it wouldn't shift gears. It starts but wouldn't move.

Filed Aug 15, 2017 · Driver assistance, Engine · 6,770 miles · FL

This happened a few months back 1 single time. I put car in reverse to back out of a space. Car reversed fine. Then I tried to put it into drive but it would not go into drive, only up to neutral. I tried turning it off and the waiting a min or 2 and turned it back on to see if it would go to drive. It would not. It would only move in reverse. I kept trying until on one of those tries it finally went into drive and I was able to get going again. Then recently, I think, 8/2/17, wed, I was at bank parked. I put car on reverse to leave bec I had a few more errands to do,car went back fine. Then I tried to put into drive; it would not go to drive. Same thing happened. It would not go into drive. It stopped in neutral and there were many cars trying to get past me, as I was blocking those coming south and those going north of me. I didn't know what to do! So I put it back into reverse and went back as much as I safely could in order to clear a wider space to see if cars could squeeze past me. The waiting cars squeezed through very unsafely for them and for me. Then I just kept trying by turning the car off and on a few mins later. I kept trying to put into drive. It would go to neutral but not into drive. Until one time, when it did and I was able to go to my next stop which was walgreens.exact thing reoccurred; I repeated tries; finally went into drive. I proceeded to go to publix. Same senario happened. It took many tries.finally went into drive and I was able to get home. I got home. Happened again when I reversed from being parked at my bldg blocking everyone. A ups truck driver also blocked. I asked for his help.he made attempts to put into dr. Finally got it. Moved my car out of harm's way. Nissan paper work is dated 8/4/17. It may repeat in a dangerous place. Was city in motion from parked. Maybe gear box is faulty, engine/transmission problem or electrical.

Filed Apr 8, 2017 · Transmission · 57,000 miles · CA

Whine noise coming up the hill, dangerous limp mode occasionally out of nowhere, high RPM almost red when changing gears. Complaint to dealer they say no codes from system and no recalls yet.