I started my car and I heard a rattling sound. As I went to drive the sound got louder as I pushed the gas pedal. I went to nissan right away and they said it was my "rusted" muffler. It's from the salt and it will be $700 bucks. My car is a 2012, there is no way possible for salt rust in 3 years. I just can't believe this!! I am trying to understand since I live in florida. I'd understand better if I still lived up north and dealt with salt from the ice trucks. I don't live close enough to to a beach for salt rust!!!
2012 Nissan Versa engine complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2012 nissan versa. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the technician was unable to find a failure. No repairs were made to the vehicle. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 34,600. The VIN was unavailable.
Driving home from grocery store during daylight hours, engine check light came on. I went to meineke to have code determined. Store manager checked my car for code, he found code is 007 and it will cost me over $400 to repair. I should not drive the auto until it gets repaired. This part should not be an issue with low mileage and age of vehicle! He said car will disable if I drive it because it is dangerous if it disables while driving! I have drs appts to go to and cannot be without being able to drive it! Is this a recall for this part? If I drive on the freeway and I diables, I will be in a dangerous situation and I have an 18 month old baby in her car seat if I get rear ended, she could be killed!
I purchased a 2012 nissan versa from a private owner for my grandson to drive at college. A week after the purchase, my grandson was driving on i95 at 55 MPH and the engine started to slow down. He tried to accelerate, the car continued to slow down while making a horrible sound like it was stuck between gears. He coasted to the nearest exit, pulled onto the shoulder and turned the car off. He restarted the car and was able to make it home. I took the car to a nissan dealer since it only had 18,000 miles and is under warranty. They were not able to duplicate the issue but did replace a "sensor". Two weeks later it happened again and nissan again replaced a "sensor". The third time, my grandson was driving to the poconos and just made it to the lodge before the car shutdown completely. We had the car towed to the nearest dealer where it sits today. Nissan is directing me to contact the district office. How many complaints do you need to get a recall? Does someone need to die before nissan does the right thing?
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 nissan versa. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 65 MPH, the engine rpms decreased and the vehicle failed to accelerate. The vehicle was restarted and the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed that the transmission fluid mixed with the coolant in the transmission. As a result, the transmission and the radiator needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 71,000.
Brought the car in august 2011. At every service I would report of knocking noise as if the car was in need of oil. I was repeatedly told that there is/was nothing wrong with the car. Again in december 2013, mileage was 17,000 I complained (very loudly) about the noise.... One of the tech's took it for a hard test drive and blow up the engine. They said my engine was gone and they needed to replace it which they did do. The only thing I have to ask should the warranty start over? I copied and pasted this but added my own stuff to it! You cannot detect a bad engine bearing with a computer sensor.... You have to use your brain....... Something that has gone with the times:(
The exhaust failed prematurely. Welding of flange at muffler has snapped apart.
Nissan versa 2012. This is my second CVT transmission replacement. I received the first transmission replacement in december 2013 and it has broken again in may 2014. The vehicle got stuck in gear and would not shift. It accelerated and decelerated without my foot on the gas pedal. The vehicle made front end noises and pops like it was going to fall apart. It's very unsafe to drive. The airbag and check engine lights came on. I took my car to the dealer and got the run around. Don' t know what caused the problems and need more time to run test. The second transmission is under warranty and the dealer gave me every excuse to not fix my car. I was told, by the dealer, after seven days of waiting on repairs, that they (dealer) were waiting for a response from nissan headquarters to run test. Fix my vehicle and run all the test you want but not at my sacrifice. The dealer said that they could not help me with a rental until nissan gave the dealer an answer as far as what test to run and if to repair the vehicle, which is under warranty. The dealer just said, sorry but we can't do anything. It wasn't until nine days later that the dealer gave me a rental car, only, after my dad lit the fire. I was inconvenienced getting off work, very late hours, with no transportation. I informed the dealer about my late night dangerous experiences. It should not take, let's see, I'm on day twelve as of this complaint to fix a warranty problem. These CVT transmissions have been a long, ongoing problem with nissan. This is a nightmare for all nissan owners and nissan should be held accountable for knowing about these issues and ignoring their issues. Nissan puts the blame on the car owners so that they can pay. This is wrong. Very disappointed in a reputable company. No longer reputable for me.
January 2nd I was asked to jumpstart a vehicle in my driveway. Approximately 5 minutes later my nissan versa, with less than 33000 miles, caught on fire. The cables were hooked up correctly. Prior to this incident and at least three times, I had complained of a burning smell after highway driving. I was told by my insurance company, I should bring it to a nissan dealer where a licensed nissan mechanic could determine the cause of the fire. When the dealer neglected to do so, nissan north america was called in to do an inspection. They completed their inspection and would not cover the expense or release the report to me or the nissan dealer. They opted to keep the information undercover. I believe it is related to the recall on the shifter recall. This may have caused the torque converter to leak and the engine to catch on fire.
January 2nd I was asked to jumpstart a vehicle in my driveway. Approximately 5 minutes later my nissan versa, with less than 32000 miles, caught on fire. The cables were hooked up correctly. Prior to this incident and at least three times, I had complained of a burning smell after highway driving. I was told by my insurance company, I should bring it to a nissan dealer where a licensed nissan mechanic could determine the cause of the fire. When the dealer neglected to do so, nissan north america was called in to do an inspection. They completed their inspection and would not cover the expense or release the report to me or the nissan dealer. They opted to keep the information undercover. I am assuming it is was an electrical issue or some type of leak judging by the 250,000 nissan vehicles recalled in 2012.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 nissan versa. The contact stated that she exited the vehicle with the engine operating and when she returned to the vehicle, the engine was powered off. The contact attempted to restart the vehicle but the vehicle would not restart. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer for inspection or repairs. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 64,000.
I had my car towed to nissan of chantilly after the engine died the day before after it stopped running in the middle of broadlands blvd, but I managed to get it started just enough get it to a parking lot. They have contacted me only once during the entire time that they have had the car. I contacted them on the 15th of november to be told that the engine had to be replaced, but they have not installed it though they have been authorized by nissan, because they are having engineers coming to asses the engine to find out why it stopped working, this appears to be a deliberate attempt to keep from repairing and accepting ownership that the engine was defective and keeping me out of the loop. I have contacted nissan corporate headquarters' and filed a complaint requesting to have a new car as the devaluation of the car and not knowing what has occurred over the last month and a half between the dealership and nissan. I'm not even sure if the engine will actually be new or refurbished which may impact the longevity of the car and could be very well be a safety hazard if these engines are defective and may be a part of hidden defect issue between the dealership(s) and nissan.
When driving down the highway, my versa went into neutral but the shift still said d for drive, had no acceleration took to dealer and they passed it off as nothing because nothing read on the computer system and they basically said in a round about way I'm a woman are you sure you didn't bump it into neutral? Then a month later had it back as it did the same thing but this time I was going 25 MPH. Hooked it up to the computer again and there was nothing reading and reset the computer system. Happened again but was in our parking lot and just blew it off as the dealer would just tell me nothing was wrong. Just yesterday (6/29) as I was turning into the park I work at it slipped back into neutral, then all the electrical went out, no power steering, but the engine was still going, electrical came back on and then the car died as I was going about 20 MPH and it quit all together on me shut down. Had to push it to a parking stall and call a tow to the dealer, once at the dealer they hooked it up to the computer and 3 errors for fuel system and 1 error for transmission came up. I'm just thankful that it didn't cause an accident when this has happened. I have it documented that it has been at the dealer now 3 times for this same issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 nissan versa. The contact stated that while driving 35 MPH, the vehicle suddenly stalled causing the power steering and brakes to deactivate. The vehicle crashed into a pole. Upon impact, the air bags did not deploy. The contact sustained neck and chest injuries. The contact stated that the vehicle was taken to the dealer prior to the crash to diagnose the stalling but the failure could not be replicated. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 8,000.
On sept 29th at or around 3:45pm my family and I were driving to a swim meet on highway 60 in mesa, az. About 5 miles into the trip I heard a hissing sound coming from the AC system and a minute later we had no AC pumping through. When I took it to the dealer that monday (assuming it was covered by warranty) I was told a rock had hit the condenser in such a way that it caused the system to need repair and that was not covered. I asked if this was a common incident and was told it has occurred before. In fact it was a design flaw. The dealership was to charge 700.00 plus. I was flabbergasted!!! My thoughts were if I was to pay to have this repaired-it could happen again and again and again. Much to expensive a repair to not have someone made aware that this is wrong!!! Nissan should have a protective screen in place (or something done)to avoid this in the future or warn consumers of this.
The nissan dealers say that the change of speed in this car cannot be felt, and so does the tv commercial. It isn't true. It is a danger in the streets. Everytime I go to the expressway I have to make sure that there isn't a car any close to be able to enter because when you try to speed a bit, it restrain itself and I already got scared with this experience. Even when you are in the city and you try to speed a bit to change lane, you can feel that in most of the cases it won't let you do it inmediately. I don't know how this car have been approved with 5 stars by the american government as the dealers say. Besides, the driver's seat belt won't go all the way, and you can see that after few blocks driving, it loose a bit more. I bought this car for my teenage daughter, but I cannot put this danger in her hands. I hope I get advisors that help me to get my money back or to be able to change this car and not loosing 5000 as the nissan proposed me. Unfortunately I cannot afford it anymore.
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