| Issue ID | 1276820 |
| Internal NHTSA # | 10860006 |
| Manufacurer | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| Brand | NISSAN |
| Model | FRONTIER |
| Model Year | 2007 |
| File date | 14/04/16 |
| Component | POWER TRAIN |
| Product type code | VEHICLE |
| Description of the problem | Transmission will not go into gear due to coolant leaking into transmission. It is a manufacturer defect that nissan has known about, but refuses to fix. They do not tell the buyer of the looming catastrophic failure, and continued to manufacture the vehicles for several more years even after discovering the problem, probably because it fails after the warranty is up. I now have a truck that i bought just a little over a year ago for $17000 that will not move. The cost to fix the problem can range anywhere from $4000 to $10000 depending on how much damage was caused by the defect. If it were to have been in a wreck and that much money in body damage would have occurred it would be totaled. How ever since it is a mechanical issue i am stuck paying $360 a month for a useless vehicle, that even if i could afford to get it fixed, i would be putting way more money into it than it is worth. When i purchased it from the nissan dealership it had an as is no warranty tag in the window, but that was not true. Nissan had a warranty for that specific problem, but the dealership did not tell me. When i called and asked the service department, the service writer pretended not to know anything about it until i started grilling him about it. He then admitted it was a big problem in 3 of their vehicles, then told me it wasn't his problem, it was sales problem and transferred me to them. I talked to the manager, he said that the extended warranty nissan offered, the one they neglected to mention, expired the month before my transmission failed, and even then i would have been out $2500 for a known defect that they continued to put in the vehicles for several more years. I was lucky it failed in a parking lot and not when i was pulling out into traffic where i could have been hit by another car and injured or killed! This problem is not the consumers fault, it is nissans! |
| Vehicle Mileage at Failure | 111269 |
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| Source of the issue | NHTSA WEB SITE |
| City and State | OWASSO, OK |
| VIN pattern | 1N6AD09W17CXXXXXX |
| 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 | 10 |
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