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2005 Nissan PATHFINDER Engine And Engine Cooling Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	949275
Internal NHTSA #	10483209
Manufacurer	Nissan North America, Inc.
Brand	NISSAN
Model	PATHFINDER
Model Year	2005
File date	08/09/12
Component	ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	i was leaving a restaurant parking lot with my wife and kids. I pulled to the parking lot exit and turned right onto the 4-lane boulevard. I tried to accelerate to traffic speed in the near lane but the motor simply raced and would not propel the vehicle. As traffic caught me i heard tires squealing and horns blowing from the vehicles behind me. The traffic worked around me while i shifted the transmission into park and then back into drive and began to move at idle speed. As traffic allowed i worked over into the left lane and then the turning lane while gradually accelerating to driving speed, merged back into traffic and proceeded home, careful to avoid any stop lights in busy traffic. We are fortunate that we were not involved in an accident. I'm no expert, but i do know that a vehicle that suddenly won't propel itself in traffic is as dangerous as one with no brakes. This was the one and only time that we experienced this problem. There was no previous indication that anything was wrong. I took the car to the nissan dealer and they diagnosed the problem as a transmission coolant line failure which allowed transmission fluid and engine coolant to intermix in the radiator, engine block and transmission, which in turn caused the transmission to slip. I'm sure nhtsa has received many complaints about this problem. I'm hearing many of the same complaints just in my area and likely there are others that have not yet been reported. Hopefully no one will have to die or suffer serious injury because of this unsafe condition before a recall will be issued.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	144180
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	WINCHESTER, TN
VIN pattern	5N1AR18U45CXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	0
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
Number of cylinders	6
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A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2005 Nissan PATHFINDER Engine And Engine Cooling Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2005 Nissan PATHFINDER Engine And Engine Cooling Problems, Complaints and Defects

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