| Issue ID | 1311378 |
| Internal NHTSA # | 10897897 |
| Manufacurer | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| Brand | NISSAN |
| Model | ALTIMA |
| Model Year | 2013 |
| File date | 21/08/16 |
| Component | ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL |
| Product type code | VEHICLE |
| Description of the problem | I recently purchased a nissan altima s from clay cooley march 2015 so i only had the car a year and some months and now the transmission is gone out i get my car serviced as i should and now this and no one wants to help clay cooley day i'm out of warranty due to miles over 24000 on the car and i'm stuck out to still fork out a 518 car payment it's not right i need help. I was leaving work my my car started vibration and started to decelerate and jerking like it was about to go dead i thought i had got some bad gas so i pulled over my car started jerking harder and cut off so i turned it back on and i shift it in reverse and it went dead so i cut it back on again and shift it in drive it cut off so i dit there for over an hour then i star it again and shifted it in drive and it didn't go dead i was able to drive home so the next day i went out to see if it would do it again and it didn't while driving my rpms went up high and my car made whining noise and started vibrations again and this time my check engine light came on so i was coming up to a light so i stopped but when i tried to drive it wouldn't move so i put the blinkers on and some guy came behind and pushed me over to the side and i say there for about hour and i started up and it moved so i went straight home and called around and explained what had happened so the man from amco told me to come down so i called for a tow and got towed there and he tested it and said that my transmission is bad and it's a cvt transmission do it cant be rebuilt it has to be replaced for as much as 4000 dollars |
| Vehicle Mileage at Failure | 90234 |
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| Source of the issue | NHTSA WEB SITE |
| City and State | DALLAS, TX |
| VIN pattern | 1N4AL3AP2DCXXXXXX |
| Was vehicle invloved in a crash? | N |
| Was vehicle involved in a fire? | N |
| Was incedent reported to police? | N |
| Was medical attention required? | N |
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| Date of purchase | 07/08/26 |
| Was original owner? | N |
| Anti-lock brakes | N |
| Cruise control | N |
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| Vehicle speed | 55 |
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