2013 NISSAN PATHFINDER Complaints

I AM DRIVING MY 2013 PATHFINDER AND FROM TIME TO TIME, ON THE HIGHWAY OR LOCAL ROADS, EVEN AT TAKE OFF I PRESS THE ACCELERATOR AND NOTHING HAPPENS. THE REVS DO NOT RISE, THE TRUCK DOES NOT ACCELERATE. I CAN PUT THE ACCELERATOR TO THE FLOOR AND STILL NOTHING. IT HAPPENS ROUGHLY ONCE EVERY TIME I DRIVE IT. I LET GO THE ACCELERATOR AND PRESS IT AGAIN AND IT IS BACK TO NORMAL. THE TRUCK IS WARM EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS, SO I CANT SAY IT IS BECAUSE I AM DRIVING THE ENGINE COLD.

THE VEHICLE WAS PURCHASED IN MAY 2015. THE VEHICLE HAD 54K MILES. WITHIN 45 DAYS OF PURCHASE NOTICED THAT WHILE PULLING INTO TRAFFIC THE VEHICLE WOULD HESITATE. THIS WAS ALSO NOTICED WHEN BEGINNING FROM A COMPLETE STOP. TOOK THE VEHICLE INTO LIBERTY GMC IN PEORIA, AZ WHERE IT WAS PURCHASED. WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS SENT TO NISSAN AND THEY DID SOME REPROGRAMMING. GOT THE CAR BACK AND IT CONTINUED THE SAME ISSUES. TOOK BACK A WEEK LATER AND SUPPOSEDLY THEY PUT A NEW TRANSMISSION ON THE VEHICLE. WELL HERE WE ARE 1 YEAR LATER AND THE SAME ISSUES ARE HAPPENING AGAIN. THIS TIME WITH THE ADDED BONUS OF A CLUNK WHEN YOU HIT THE ACCELERATOR. WILL BE TAKING IN AGAIN NEXT WEEK. SECOND ISSUE IS WITH MY WIFE ( WHO IS 8 MONTHS PREGNANT) SITTING IN FRONT PASSENGER SEAT THE LIGHT SAYING AIRBAG IS OFF STAYS ON. NISSAN SEEMS TO NOT BE TAKING SOME OF THESE ISSUES VERY SERIOUSLY.

PASSENGER AIRBAG MONITOR LIGHT STAYS ON WITH AN ADULT SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. THIS HAPPENS OFTEN.

NUMEROUS TIMES I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALERSHIP ( DICK SCOTT NISSAN OF CANTON ) COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PASSENGER AIRBAG WAS LID ON EVEN WITH AN ADULT PASSENGER WAS SITTING IN THE FRONT SEAT. ALL THOSE TIMES I GOT AN EXPLANATION THAT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM. THEY WON'T EVEN WRITE IT UP AS A COMPLAINT. THEY UPDATED THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE BUT TO DATE I STILL NOTICED EVERY NOW AND THEN THE PASSENGER AIRBAG LIGHT WILL COME ON. I'M JUST WORRIED THAT IF THE VEHICLE WILL GET IN AN ACCIDENT AND SOMEONE IS SITTING IN THE FRONT, THAT SOMEONE IS NOT PROTECTED FROM THE IMPACT.

AIRBAG LIGHT SHOWS THAT THERE IS NO PASSENGER IN THE SEAT WHEN A ADULT SITS IN THE SEAT

I'VE PURCHASED THIS CAR 18 MONTHS AGO, AND JUST STARTED EXPERIENCING LOSS OF POWER AND JOLTING. IT'S LOSES POWER AND WON'T GO. IT JUST PUTS PUTS PUTS FOOT ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR. HAD TO HAVE IT TOWED TO MY HOUSE. THE NEXT DAY IT STARTS UP I DRIVE IT TO NISSAN THEY SAID I NEED A NEW TRANSMISSION. I PAYED 30,000 FOR THIS CAR AND 18 MONTHS LATER I NEED A NEW TRANSMISSION I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR THAT I STILL OWE 21,000 ON THE CAR. SO IT'S SITTING IN MY DRIVEWAY.

TOOK CAR IN BECAUSE AIRBAG LIGHT WAS STAYING ON WITH AN ADULT SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT WHILE THE CAR WAS BOTHER STATIONARY AND IN MOTION. DEALER UPDATED SOFTWARE AND LIGHT WENT OUT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. THEN I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM INTERMITENTLY. I TOOK THE CAR BACK IN, THEY TRIED TO UPDATE THE SOFTWARE AGAIN BUT IT WOULDN'T WORK. THE DEALER SAID THE ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO REPLACE THE OCS, BUT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO IT AT COST. I THOUGHT THAT IF IT WAS A SAFETY CONCERN THE MAUFACTURER WAS TO REPAIR IT AT THEIR COST NOT MINE.

I WAS ON A TRIP TO THE STORE, ALL OF A SUDDEN MY PATHFINDER ACTED AS IF IT HAD NO POWER WHEN I WAS GETTING READY TO GET GOING FROM A STOPLIGHT. THIS SAME THING OCCURRED SEVERAL MORE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DRIVE. ON ONE OCCASION MY FAMILY AND I WERE PUT INTO AN UNSAFE SITUATION. AS I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A TURN IN AN INTERSECTION MY PATHFINDER HAD NO POWER AND ALMOST CAUSED ME TO BE HIT BY ONCOMING TRAFFIC. ANOTHER ISSUE IS WITH THE BRAKE LIGHTS WOULDN'T GO OFF ONCE I GOT TO A STOPPING POINT. THEY STAY ON AND DON'T GO OFF WITHOUT THE FUSE FOR THE STOP LIGHT BEING PULLED.

THE TRANSMISSION HAS GIVEN ME PROBLEMS FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF. INITIALLY WHEN I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP THEY SAID THEY COULD NOT RECREATE THE PROBLEM. WHEN ACCELERATING FROM A COMPLETE STOP THE VEHICLE WOULD SHUDDER AND STRUGGLE TO GET INTO A HIGHER GEAR. THE CAR WOULD GO SLOWER THAN IT SHOULD BASED ON THE PRESSURE APPLIED TO THE GAS PEDAL. THIS SHUDDERING WOULD ALSO OCCUR WHEN ACCELERATING ON THE FREEWAY. I COULD BE GOING 55MPH AND THEN NEEDED TO MERGE OR PASS AND WHEN THE GAS IS PRESSED A STRONG SHUDDER WOULD OCCUR SOMETIMES FEELING LIKE THE CAR WOULD STOP AT ANY SECOND. I MENTIONED THIS TO THE DEALER TWO MORE TIMES. THERE WERE SOME SOFTWARE UPDATES AND EVENTUALLY, LAST JULY, THEY SAID I NEEDED A NEW TRANSMISSION. A 2 YEAR OLD CAR WITH APPROXIMATELY 40K MILES. THAT IS UNHEARD OF. AFTER THE TRANSMISSION REPLACEMENT THINGS SEEMED TO BE WORKING FINE. EVERY NOW AND THEN I WOULD FEEL A SLIGHT SHUDDER BUT WASN'T SURE IF THAT WAS ACTUALLY OCCURRING BECAUSE OF WHAT I WAS USED TO BEFORE. WELL IT DEFINITELY WAS AND GOT NOTICEABLY WORSE. WHEN ACCELERATING FROM A COMPLETE STOP THE CAR WOULD MOVE AND SEEM TO BE STUCK IN GEAR. I COULD PUSH THE GAS PEDAL DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND WOULD GO NO FASTER THAN 20 MPH. THIS WAS A PROBLEM AS I WAS IN TRAFFIC NUMEROUS TIMES WHEN THIS OCCURRED. I TOOK IT BACK TO A DIFFERENT DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAID IT WAS A SOFTWARE UPDATE THAT WAS NEEDED. THE UPDATE WAS APPLIED LAST WEEK AND THE PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN WORSE. ACCELERATING FROM ANY SPEED WHETHER FROM 0 OR 55 THE CAR GETS STUCK AND DOESN'T GO ANY FASTER, THIS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES IN ONE DAY ON THE HIGHWAY AND LUCKILY NO ACCIDENT OCCURRED. THE CAR IS NOW BACK AT THE DEALERSHIP. I HAVE A FAMILY WITH 2 SMALL CHILDREN AND AM AFRAID TO PUT MY FAMILY IN THE CAR. NISSAN HAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED ME WITH THIS AND IT SEEMS THIS IS AN ONGOING AND KNOWN ISSUE FOR 2013 PATHFINDERS.

THERE IS A VIOLENT SHUDDER/JUDDER THAT OCCURS DURING TURNS, UNEVEN ROADS, UP HILLS, SLOWER SPEEDS DURING TRAFFIC. GEARS DO NOT SEEM TO CHANGE AND OPERATE SMOOTHLY. JUDDERS INTO NEXT GEAR LOSING POWER AND CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE THAT SCARES EVERYONE IN THE CAR. AS CONSUMERS WE ALL PURCHASE NEW VEHICLES FOR RELIABILITY AND SAFELY. YOU STICK TO A BRAND YOU KNOW AND TRUST BECAUSE OF PRIOR EXPERIENCES OR WORD OF MOUTH REFERRALS. NISSAN HAS TRIED TO GIVE ME A HARDER TIME FIXING THESE ISSUES BY ASKING TO REPLICATE THE ISSUE OR RECORD WHILE DRIVING, WHICH IS ALSO EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL. THESE ISSUES ARE SURPRISINGLY ARE ALL OVER THE INTERNET, YET I HAVE NOT SEEN A FIX TO DATE, OWNERSHIP FROM THE MANUFACTURE OF THE PROBLEM OR RECALL. PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE AT RISK IN THESE FAULTY AUTO'S EVERY DAY AND YET NOTHING SEEMS TO BE DONE. AFTER HAVING MY SECOND TRANSMISSION INSTALLED, WHEEL BARRING REPLACED, RUBBER STRIPS FROM ROOF REPLACED AS WELL AS DRIVER VISOR I WILL SOON FILE FOR A LEMON CLAIM. PLEASE TAKE MY ISSUES SERIOUS AND HELP SAVE PEOPLE THAT COULD POSSIBLY LOSE THEIR LIVES BECAUSE OF THESE FAULTY TRANSMISSIONS.