Nissan Pathfinder

"Multiple trips to dealer with transmission issues until a refurbished transmission was installed"

"The transmission was shifting inappropriately when driving the vehicle at highway speeds causing the vehicle to lurch forward/sideways dangerously. The problem took approximately 6 weeks to have corrected by the dealership where we bought the vehicle. They ultimately figured out that the transmission needed to be replaced to be safe again"

"Recall of transmission- replaced on warranty"

"Had transmission replace twice. A lot of visit to service dept with transmison problems"

"Numerous obvious transmission fault indications led to Nissan replacing entire transmission"

"had to install a new cvt under warranty at 38000km"

"Initial transmission slipped and skipped badly. Replaced on a recall and has worked perfectly since."

"Had transmission shudder problem in June 2018. Took it to dealer and they replaced the transmission under warranty. Afterwards the transmission did not feel quite right. In Sept 2018 the transmission would start shaking and shuddering under load. Took it to dealer where they replaced the transmission a second time... plus they kept it for 1 month. This 3rd transmission feels better and has not been an issue so far."

"The first issue was with the original dealership. The dealership rebuilt the transmission. It had to be replaced by another dealership near our current residence. (750 miles away)"

"2nd transmission rebuild in 3/2019 @ 30K miles. 1st time was in 2015 with less than 6K miles. Given the low mileage and average, safe driving, this seems like an unreasonable and extensive repair to have had to do twice in under 5 years."

"This is a problem Nissan knows happens with the CVT transmissions. The transmission slipped and roughly jerked constantly. They even extended the warranty to 85,000 (I believe) because of it. Unfortunately my vehicle was already over that mileage limit when it started, but we had purchased the extended warranty and it covered the replacement. If we had not had the extended warranty it would have cost over $5,000 to replace the transmission in a 3 year old vehicle. I contacted Nissan about the problem, but they never responded back to me."

"Required a new transmission at 62,000 km due to wear on internal chains."

"At 4900 miles our 2012 Pathfinder needed a new transmission"

"Transmission failed at 2000 miles. Took over a week for a replacement. No problems since"

"Transmission kept slipping gears. Required a full transmission replacement under warranty"

"Transmission shifted roughly at times, Was replaced under warranty"

"Transmission was replaced at ~12,000 miles. Car was shuddering under light acceleration, after transmission replaced the shuddering stopped"

"Vehicle was shaking during acceleration just after making a turn (such as a street corner) - whole transmission had to be replaced (covered by warranty)"

"On the 2nd transmission, with 3 updates on the software. Acting like it's about to go again"

"at 3000 miles, the transmission failed. Dealership had the car for a week to replace it with a new one. They also replaced transaxle with a rebuilt one after promising to only use "new parts." They also scratched the console. I'm not happy"

"going from a flat grade to an uphill grade the car would shake and not accelerate"

"Transmission slipping, tech recommended replacement instead of repair."

"CVT transmission failed twice under warranty. The first time at 60k miles and the second at 87k miles. The CVT's warranty was voluntarily extended by Nissan due to poor reliability. On the second failure, the transfer case failed as well. Even though the transfer case failed as a result of the failed transmission, Nissan refused to cover the replacement under warranty. Through their consumer claims team, Nissan finally agreed to cover 75% of the replacement cost of the transfer case. $1,200 later, the Pathfinder's transmission and transfer case were replaced."

"While driving the car at about 90km/h, there was a sudden increase to about 3000 to 4000 RPMs on the tachometer and intermittent lurching of the vehicle. The intermittent lurching continued for many kilometres with the car driving smoothly at 90 km an hour at times as well but the RPMs remained higher than they should be at that speed. I drove directly to a nearby Nissan dealership. I was told there was complete transmission failure due to a transmission coolant leak. I hadn't noticed any sign of a coolant leak; fluid under the car etc. but had noticed the higher than normal rpms on the tach. over several days prior to the lurching problem. There was only just over 79,000 km on the vehicle and fortunately the repair was covered under basic warranty. They replaced the transmission and its radiator at no cost other than some minor shop costs. I was told that this would have been a nearly $6000 cdn. repair. Approximately one year later there is now 94,000 km on the odometer and there have been no problems."

"Transmission started shifting roughly. Dealer said it had a condemn code and needed replacement. $4000 later with new factory transmission it runs like new again."

"Factory recall. I did not experience problems. Dealership rebuilt the transmission at no cost to me and I have had no problems with it since"

"Needed a software update and install a new control valves"

"When cold, the transmissions shifts really hard from reverse to first, and first to second."

"Sudden acceleration at low speed on start when you have to back off on the gas pedal than re engage"

"Had problem with rough acting transmission ie.judder as if tranny is falling out.problem rectified after three visits.There is still an intermittent judder every 5000kms approx"

"not smooth transmission. CVT system problems"

"Another recall. So, tired of recalls on this vehicle"

"This is what caused the original rebuild."

"slippage particularly when accelerating at lower speeds (15-30 mph) and especially when going up an incline/hill."

"Transmission judder has started again after the transmission was replaced about 3 years ago under warranty."

"Jerky shifting"

"the CVT would violately shake the entire car while only driving between 15-35 miles per hour. but only from time to time. Nissan refused to replace the known faulty CVT dispite extensive online and dealer complaints"

"I reported to the dealer that the car was not shifting properly they told me nothing was wrong basicly my imagination , later a factory recall came out on the transmission that needed a software upgrade/update"

"The transmission would hesitate or "jerk" when slowly accelerating"

"At a speed of 40Kms. per hr. can feel the transmission jerking ,"

"Had to download new update to the computer due to transmission shutter"

"Transmission was not properly shifting....factory recall"

"Fluid leak because of breakage in line"

"Back hatch release snapped off the exterior rear molding. It is the only way to open the liftgate on the vehicle. Because the release button is permanently housed inside a piece of exterior trim, our extended warranty would not cover the repair because the contract excludes interior and exterior molding. This was very irritating because while I understand the terms of the contract, I feel it should have been covered because an operational part of the vehicle is housed inside the molding, making it more than a decorative piece of trim."

"Weather trimming is loose on roof. Interior plastics are loose."

"Vehicle just seems poorly constructed"

"Gasket beneath passenger side roof rack (about 6" front) came loose. Nissan dealer replaced gaskets on both sides"

"Roof panel trim repaired twice under warranty"

"trim on roof of vehicle came loose and had to be replaced"

"detached weather stripping roof area"

"The rubber weatherstripping seal on the roof became dislodged while driving on the highway. Dealer told us we were not the first to complain about the problem"

"The front bumper is extremely low. I scraped a cement guard on a parking place, and the bumper came loose, and I had to have it put back on"

"loose molding on top of vehicle"

"lower passenger door molding partially dropped off. took it to a dealer and they installed a new molding. very efficient"

"loose head molding - would not beneath the molding on the passenger side. It took a call to the Customer service dept at Nissan to get fixed. Had to carry it to another dealer. The one I brought it from said he couldn't fix and Nissan would have"

"The paint on this pathfinder has chips that have been there from day one. We picked up the car on a heavy rain day within the next week, I started to see the chips in the paint. The dealer when shown to him said there nothing we can do now"

"Paint has noticeably faded after only 3 years"

"Paint chips very easily"