Nissan Maxima Complaints

6,958 consumer complaints on file.

#10341839July 7, 2010
SUSPENSION
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS 2001 NISSAN MAXIMA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THERE WAS A KNOCKING AND GROUNDING SOUND IN THE STEERING COLUMN. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT A PART OF NHTSA RECALL CAMPAIGN NUMBER 02V146000, SUSPENSION ALTHOUGH THE FAILURE WAS IDENTICAL TO THE RECALL. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGES WERE 59000.
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#10341894July 7, 2010
POWER TRAIN
TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS WITH 2006 NISSAN MAXIMA. TRANSMISSION SLIPPING. *TR
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#10341634July 6, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS 2004 NISSAN MAXIMA. THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION FAILED AND WOULD NOT SHIFT INTO GEAR WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHO STATED THAT THE TRANSMISSION NEED TO BE REPLACED AT THE CONTACTS EXPENSE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER STATED THAT THE WARRANTY WAS EXPIRED. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGES WERE 57,218.
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#10341406July 4, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
I OWN A 2006 NISSAN MAXIMA WITH 89000 MILES ON IT. RECENTLY, THE CAR JERKS WHEN SHIFTING FROM 2ND TO 3RD GEAR. T\AT LOW SPEEDS, IT REVS TO 5000 RPM AND WILL NOT ACCELERATE AT STOPS. AFTER RESEARCHING ONLINE, I FOUND MANY COMPLAINTS OF THE EXACT PROBLEMS WORD-FOR-WORD. SOME HAVE BEEN IN ACCIDENTS DUE TO THIS UNCONTROLLABLE PROBLEM. OTHERS HAVE OPTED TO PARK THEIR VEHICLES DUE TO THE UNSAFE CONDITIONS. NISSAN IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM, BUT OFFERS NO RECALL OR ASSISTANCE. *TR
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#10341001July 1, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
I RECENTLY PURCHASED A 2006 NISSAN MAXIMA SE WITH 60,000 MILES FROM A DEALERSHIP HERE IN TUCSON, AZ. AFTER ABOUT 2 WEEKS, I STARTED TO NOTICE THE TRANSMISSION WAS SHIFTING RATHER ROUGH. I ALSO NOTICED IT WAS "REVVING UP" ON ITS OWN WHEN I WOULD PUSH THE GAS, AND WHILE IT WAS TRYING TO SHIFT FROM 1ST TO 2ND GEAR, OR FROM 2ND TO 3RD. I ALSO NOTICED A "JERKING" WHILE SHIFTING, WHETHER IT BE UPSHIFT, OR DOWNSHIFTING. I TOOK IT TO MY MECHANIC AND HE COULD FIND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE. I WENT ONLINE TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS AS MYSELF, AND I WAS HORRIFIED! I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE HASN'T BEEN A RECALL. TOYOTA RECENTLY HAD A SIMILAR INCIDENCE WHERE THE GAS PEDAL WOULD PUSH DOWN, AND THE DRIVER WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STOP AND WOULD CAUSE ACCIDENTS! THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE MAXIMA. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT MUST TAKE A FATALITY, TO MAKE NISSAN DO THE RIGHT THING AND FIX THE PROBLEM BEFORE ANYONE IS HURT! *TR
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#10340870June 30, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
HI MY NAME IS [XXX] I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MY MAXIMA 2004 BECAUSE IS JERKING, I JUST TOOK THE CAR TO THE DEALER AND THEY TOLD ME IS THE TRANSMISSION AND MY CAR HAVE 51,000 MILES WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THE TRANSMISSION IS BAD THEY CHARGING ME 3,400 TO FIX. AND I STILL PAYING MY CAR AND I HAVE A FAMILY AND BILLS TO PAY. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.. I NEED HELP TO FIX MY CAR... INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR
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#10340551June 29, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS 2004 NISSAN MAXIMA. THE CONTACT STATED WHEN DRIVING FROM 20-30 MPH, THE TRANSMISSION WOULD SLIP AND CAUSE THE VEHICLE TO JERK EXCESSIVELY. THE VEHICLE WOULD INDEPENDENTLY SHIFT INTO THE NEXT GEAR, DISENGAGE AND THEN RE-ENGAGE. THE CONTACT STATED THE FAILURE WOULD OCCUR EVERY TIME THE VEHICLE WAS OPERATED. THE FAILURE WOULD OCCUR MOSTLY WHEN ACCELERATING FROM A STOP. THE DEALER PERFORMED A DIAGNOSTIC TEST WHICH DETERMINED THAT THE CENTRAL COMPUTER WOULD NEED TO BE READJUSTED. THE FAILURE PERSISTED AND PROGRESSIVELY BECAME WORSE. THERE WERE NO FURTHER REPAIRS MADE TO THE VEHICLE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 30,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE IS 125,745. UPDATED 10/29/10*JB
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#10340574June 29, 2010
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM
NISSAN MAXIMA, AUTOMATIC, SE, 6 CYL. 3.5L MILEAGE 75,000. PROBLEM: NISSAN DEALER. CONVERTER HEAT SHIELD RATTLE AND CRACK IN THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER. TO REPLACE CONVERTER NISSAN DEALER WANTED $1200.00 TO REPLACE. NISSAN WOULDN'T CONSIDER THE PROBLEM A DEFECT/ UNDER WARRANTY. MY SON'S CAR. *TR
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#10340693June 29, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS ON MY CAR, STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. LET CAR REST FOR 10 MINUTES, THEN FINALLY RESTARTED ONLY TO FIND MY CAR STUCK IN 5TH GEAR WITH SLOW ACCELERATION AND HIGH RPM IF NOT CAREFUL. CAR STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC IN A VERY BUSY INTERSECTION. I DO NOT KNOW EXTENT OF DAMAGES (FINANCIAL BURDEN) AS CAR IS LEFT IN MECHANIC SHOP, BUT ALREADY DEPENDING ON FRIENDS FOR A RIDE TO WORK. *TR
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#10340418June 28, 2010
VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES
VEHICLE CAME EQUIPPED WITH A FEATURE THAT ALLOWS THE SIDE MIRRORS TO TILT DOWN WHEN PLACED IN REVERSE. HOWEVER, WHEN THE FEATURE IS ACTIVATED FOR THE PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR, THE MIRROR DOES NOT ADJUST PROPERLY BACK TO ITS NORMAL POSITION, WHICH MAY HINDER DRIVERS VIEW, POSSIBLY CAUSING A SAFETY HAZARD. VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO NISSAN WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE MIRROR WAS DEFECTIVE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, THE REPLACED MIRROR BEGAN EXHIBITING SAME PROBLEM AS THE DEFECTIVE MIRROR.RETURNED VEHICLE BACK TO NISSAN TWICE AND THEY DETERMINED THAT IT WAS NORMAL. WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE ON HIGHWAY, PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR BEGAN ADJUSTING ON ITS OWN TO A POINT WHERE I COULD NOT SEE VEHICLES ALONGSIDE THE RIGHT OF THE VEHICLE. VEHICLE WAS NOT EVEN PLACED IN REVERSE! RETURNED VEHICLE BACK TO NISSAN, THEY DETERMINED THAT MIRROR NEEDED TO BE REPLACED, BUT AT MY EXPENSE, BECAUSE WARRANTY EXPIRED, DESPITE THE FACT THAT I RETURNED THE VEHICLE TWICE FOR THIS PROBLEM WHILE UNDER WARRANTY. *TR
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#10340468June 28, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL
2004 NISSAN MAXIMA HAS A TRANSMISSION PROBLEM. IT SLIPS,JERK, AND STALLS SOMETIMES. *TR
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#10340509June 28, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
WE OWE A 2006 AUTOMATIC NISSAN MAXIMA WITH NOW APPROXIMATELY 112,000 MILES. WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE TRANSMISSION. THE CAR WILL JERK REALLY HARD WHEN TRYING TO SHIFT BETWEEN 2 AND 3; WHEN YOU ATTEMPT TO ACCELERATE AND WHEN YOU COME TO A STOP. WE HAVE TAKEN THE CAR A NISSAN DEALERSHIP AND HAD OTHER DIAGNOSTIC TEST PERFORMED. HOWEVER, WE WERE TOLD THAT THE ENTIRE MOTOR NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND THEIR ARE NO ISSUES WITH THE TRANSMISSION. HOWEVER, WE TOOK THE CAR TO ANOTHER COMPANY WHO FOUND NO PROBLEMS WITH THE ENGINE. THIS CAR HAS BEEN SERVICED AS REQUIRED: THE TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN FLUSHED AND FILTERS REPLACED; SPARK PLUGS REPLACED, FUEL INJECTION FLUSHED, AND OIL FILTERS AND OIL CHANGED. AFTER GOING ON THE WEBSITE AND SEEING NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS REGARDING THIS ISSUE WITH OTHER NISSAN MAXIMAS, I'M FILING THIS COMPLAINT BECAUSE THEIR APPEARS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH NISSAN MAXIMA'S TRANSMISSIONS. THIS IS A VERY COSTLY EXPENSE AND ONE THAT I BELIEVE NISSAN NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THE 2006 MAXIMA TRANSMISSIONS. *TR
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#10340295June 27, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
BEEN HAVING NUMEROUS TRANSMISSIONS ISSUES WITH THE CAR OVER THE PAST 2 TO 3 YEARS. ALREADY TO HAD TO REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION ONCE, NOW STARTING TO HAVE THE SAME ISSUES AGAIN. LOTS OF JERKING FROM GEAR TO GEAR, LOTS OF DIFFICULTY GETTING THE CAR TO UP SHIFT OR DOWN SHIFT; CAR LOCKING IN 4TH OR 5TH GEAR AND WILL NOT SHIFT OUT OF THAT GEAR. CAN NOT BELIEVE THERE HAS NOT BEEN A RECALL BASED ON THE NUMBER OF INTERNET COMPLAINTS ON THIS ISSUE. *TR
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#10340179June 26, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS AGO I NOTICED THAT MY AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION BEGAN SLIPPING WHEN SHIFTING FROM 1ST TO 2ND GEAR. IT WOULD ALSO SLIP WHEN DOWN-SHIFTING FROM 2ND TO 1ST GEAR. I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP TO HAVE THE TRANSMISSION FLUID CHANGED AND HAVE THEM CHECK OUT THE PROBLEM. THEY STATED THAT THEY COULDN'T REPLICATE THE PROBLEM BUT AS SOON AS I LEFT THE DEALERSHIP THE TRANSMISSION BEGAN SLIPPING AGAIN. AS I WAS DRIVING HOME I WAS MAKING A LEFT-HAND TURN AND WHILE I WAS ACCELERATING MY VEHICLE WAS STUCK IN FIRST GEAR UNTIL THE TACHOMETER REACHED THE RED-LINE AND THEN THE TRANSMISSION SLAMMED THE CAR INTO SECOND GEAR LAUNCHING MY CAR INTO THE ADJACENT TURN LANE AND CAUSING ME TO NEARLY MISS AN SUV. THE PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN PROGRESSIVELY WORSE AND AFTER RESEARCHING THE TOPIC, IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY A NISSAN ENGINEERING DEFECT THAT CAUSES THE CLUTCH TO BURN-UP AND DEBRIS TO BUILD-UP IN THE TRANSMISSION CASE. NISSAN HASN'T RECALLED ANY PARTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSMISSION AND THE DEALERSHIP HAS STATED THAT I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRANSMISSION REBUILD OR REPLACEMENT. I'M WORRIED THAT NISSAN'S POOR-ENGINEERING WILL RESULT IN UNPREDICTABLE ACCELERATION, POTENTIAL LOSS OF HANDLING, AND DOWN-SHIFTING DIFFICULTIES. *TR
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0
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#10339971June 25, 2010
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
CAR BURNS APPROXIMATELY 1 LITRE PER 1500 KILOMETERS. THE NISSAN DEALERSHIP SAYS THAT THIS IS BURNING WITHIN THEIR GUIDELINES. *TR
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#10340159June 25, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
2006 MAXIMA TRANSMISSION IS SLIPPING IT STARTED SLIPPING AROUND 97,000 MILES, I TOOK MY CAR TO THE SHOP ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND I WAS TOLD THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG, NOW IT IS GETTING WORSE, WHILE I AM DRIVING THE CAR JERKS VERY HARD AND THEN IT STARTS TO NOT CHANGE OUT AND WHEN IT DOES CHANGE OUT IT SPEEDS THE CAR UP. *TR
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#10340161June 25, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
I OWN A 2004 NISSAN MAXIMA AND THE TRANSMISSION SEEM TO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN ISSUE. NOW THE TRANSMISSION IS COMPLETELY DEAD. I HAVE IT SERVICED AT A NISSAN DEALER OFTEN (MOST RECENT 3 MONTHS BACK) AND EVERYTHING SEEM TO BE GOOD. I HAD COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ISSUE TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY COULDN'T PIN POINT THE ISSUE. *TR
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#10339887June 24, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
I PURCHASED MY 06 NISSAN MAXIMA EARLIER THIS YEAR. NOW I AM FACED WITH A PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSMISSION AT ONLY 90K MILES. I LOOKED ONLINE AND FOUND THAT AN UNBELIEVABLE NUMBER OF CONSUMERS HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. THIS PROBLEM CREATES DANGEROUS SITUATIONS AS THE VEHICLE MAY SLIP OUT OF GEAR IN PLACES WHERE IT CAN CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. ALSO WHEN THE ENGINE REVS DUE TO GEAR SLIPPAGE IT CAN CAUSE ACCELERATION WHICH COULD ALSO CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. THERE ARE NEARLY 100 COMPLAINTS ON JUST ONE BLOG I FOUND, ALL RELATING TO THE 04-06 NISSAN MAXIMA. HTTP://WWW.CONSUMERAFFAIRS.COM/AUTOMOTIVE/NISSAN_MAXIMA.HTML I THINK NISSAN NEEDS TO TAKE ACTION AND GET THEIR PROBLEM FIXED FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. *TR
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0
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#10339628June 23, 2010
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
2006 NISSAN MAXIMA NOT PROPERLY SHIFTING JERKS AND HARD BUMPS WHEN ACCELERATING OR DECELERATING, SOMETIMES THE CAR FEELS LIKE IT'S TRYING TO CHANGE GEARS AND IS SUCKING FOR GAS THEN THE HARD BUMP COMES. IT BUMP SO HARD DOING ACCELERATION THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON 2 DAYS AGO. I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THE LOCAL NISSAN DEALERSHIP IT'S THE MOTOR MOUNTS OTHER REPAIR COMPANIES SAYS IT'S MORE SERIOUS AND IT'S THE TRANSMISSION. I CALL NISSAN MOTOR CO. AND WAS TOLD THEIR ARE NO RECALLS, BUT WHEN I LOOKED ON CARSURVEY.COM AND OTHER SITES A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. THE MAIN PROBLEM OCCURS IN SHIFTING BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND GEAR. IT HAS OCCURRED EVERY DAY ON NEARLY EVERY STARTUP SINCE FOR ABOUT A WEEK NOW. I WAS QUOTED FOR A NEW TRANSMISSION, BUT HAVE YET TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM. *TR
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#10339796June 23, 2010
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
1999 NISSAN MAXIMA, IGNITION COIL FAILURE AND SERVICE ENGINE SOON LIGHT ON. CAR LOOSES PICKUP, ROUGH IDLING AND KNOCKING. *TR
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