2009 Nissan Altima

DASHBOARD IS SHINY AND LOOKS LIKE MELTING. THE SHINY DASHBOARD CAUSES THINGS TO STICK TO IT AND HAS UNKNOWN STICKY SUBSTANCE 'MELTED' ON IT. THIS CAUSES GLARES AND DIFFICULTY SEEING OUT OF FRONT WIND SHIELD WHEN DRIVING- PRIMARILY WHILE DRIVING TOWARDS THE SUN. THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR 3 YEARS AND GETTING WORSE IN THE TEXAS SUN.

WHEN IT'S REALLY HOT OUTSIDE AND I DRIVE FOR MORE THAN 3 HOURS MY CAR STARTS TO LOSE POWER. WHEN HOLDING THE GAS PEDAL DOWN TO THE FLOOR MUCH CAR WILL NOT ACCELERATE. I HAVE TO STOP AND LET THE CAR SIT FOR 20 TO 30 MINUTES BEFORE I CAN DRIVE. THE TEMPERATURE GAUGE DOESN'T EVER SAY THAT THE CAR IS HOT THOUGH. THIS HAS HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES NOW. EACH TIME ON A HOT DAY AFTER DRIVING APPROXIMATELY

I PURCHASED MY CAR IN 2012 SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASING THE CAR I NOTICED SOMETHING DIDN'T FEEL QUITE RIGHT I CALLED THE NISSAN SERVICE DEPT AND EXPLAINED THE ISSUE THEY ASSURED ME EVERYTHING WAS OKAY BUT THEN IN 2016 I COMPLAINED TO NISSAN ABOUT THE WHINING NOISE AGAIN AND WHEN TRAVELING ON THE INTERSTATE HOW MY CAR WOULD JUST SLOW DOWN WITH NO WARNING CAUSING THE TRACTOR TRAILER TRAVELING BEHIND ME TO THINK QUICKLY AND JUMP INTO ANOTHER LANE OR ELSE I PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE ALIVE TO BE WRITING YOU. THE NEXT INCIDENT WAS AFTER I EXITED OFF OF THE INTERSTATE AND STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN ONCE I BEGIN TO ACCELERATE MY CAR STALLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET CAUSING A CAR COMING AROUND THE CURVE TO QUICKLY EXIT ONTO THE INTERSTATE TO KEEP FROM HITTING ME. WHEN I EXPLAINED ALL OF THIS TO NISSAN THEY ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND I SAID WHY WASN'T THIS SOMETHING YOU SEND OUT TO CONSUMERS BECAUSE IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THEN THIS ISN'T THE FIRST INCIDENT. AT THE TIME I REPORTED THIS I HAD 119,876 MILES ON MY CAR THE REP PROCEEDED TO TELL ME I WAS PAST THE EXTENDED WARRANTY I SAID WHAT EXTENDED WARRANTY I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS AND NEVER RECEIVED ANYTHING IN REFERENCE TO THIS. NEEDLESS TO SAY NISSAN NEVER FOLLOWED BACK UP WITH ME AND I REACHED OUT TO THEM AGAIN RECENTLY ABOUT THIS SAME ISSUE AND TOLD THEM NOBODY EVER FOLLOWED UP AND I WAS ALMOST HIT ONCE AGAIN DUE TO LOSING POWER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSTATE. TOOK THE CAR IN TO A NISSAN SERVICE DEPART EXPLAINED THE ISSUE ONCE AGAIN THEY SAID OH THERE IS A SERVICE BULLETIN ON THE ENGINE BUT THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRANSMISSION BUT ASSURED ME THIS WAS THE ISSUE NEEDLESS TO SAY TWO DAYS LATER AND $390 LATER THE PROBLEM STILL ISN'T FIXED. THIS IS A SAFETY HAZARD AND ONE DAY MAY CAUSE FATALITIES. THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL FOR THOSE VEHICLES UNDER THE WARRANTY. THEY HAVE LAWSUITS. HTTP://WWW.NISSANPROBLEMS.COM/TRENDS/CVT/

ABOUT 2 WEEKS AGO I NOTICED THAT MY AIR BAG DASH LIGHT WAS BLINKING. SO I TOOK MY CAR INTO THE SHOP AND HAD IT DIAGNOSED FOR $125 (OF COURSE) THEN THE SERVICE ADVISER STATES THAT A SENSOR IN MY PASSENGER SEAT IS NOT WORKING AND IT CANNOT DETERMINE IF AN ADULT OR A CHILD IS SITTING IN THE PASSENGER CHAIR. IN ORDER FOR ME TO FIX IT I'D HAVE TO CHANGE OUT THE WHOLE CHAIR ASSEMBLY. I SAID WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS, THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE, SO IF THE AIR BAGS DON'T DEPLOY IN AN ACCIDENT WHY SHOULD I BE LIABLE WHEN IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE. THIS SHOULD BE A SAFETY RECALL AND NOT THE OWNERS RESPONSIBILITY. I MAINTENANCE MY VEHICLE EVERY TIME ON THE MONEY AND TO HAVE A SIMPLE SENSOR COST ALMOST $3,000 I DON'T THINK SO.

ON OR ABOUT APRIL 4, 2015, L NOTICED THAT MY VEHICLE WOULD NOT START. THE VEHICLE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY TOWED TO A NISSAN DEALERSHIP WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE STEERING LOCK WAS DEFECTIVE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. I CONTACTED NISSAN ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS REGARDING THE REPAIR WORK THAT NEEDED TO BE PERFORMED TO MY VEHICLE. LN RESPONSE, THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM NISSAN ADVISED THEY WOULD OPEN A CLAIM AND INVESTIGATE THE MATTER FURTHER. I WAS ULTIMATELY TOLD THAT THE REPAIR WORK WOULD NOT BE COVERED BY NISSAN BECAUSE THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF WARRANTY AS OF SEPTEMBER 2014. LN FACT, L WAS ADVISED THAT THE WARRANTY HAD BEEN EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER YEAR BECAUSE OF THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE. UNFORTUNATELY, TO MY DETRIMENT, THE STEERING LOCK IN MY VEHICLE MALFUNCTIONED PAST THE WARRANTY DATE. THE PARTICULAR DEFECT IN MY VEHICLE IS A DEFECT OCCURRING IN THIS PARTICULAR MODEL, FOR WHICH THE MANUFACTURER'S WARRANTY HAD BEEN EXTENDED. IN FACT, THE STEERING LOCK HAS SINCE BEEN ALTERED IN FUTURE MODELS TO CORRECT THIS DEFECT, WHICH DEMONSTRATES THAT NISSAN WAS WELL AWARE OF THE DEFECT IN THIS PARTICULAR MODEL, YET CHOSE TO DO NOTHING TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM. DESPITE MY AMICABLE ATTEMPTS TO HAVE NISSAN REIMBURSE ME FOR THE REPAIR WORK THAT WAS DONE TO THE STEERING LOCK, OF WHICH NISSAN SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, NISSAN HAS REFUSED TO REIMBURSE ME FOR SAID REPAIRS AMOUNTING TO $1,098.06. I RECENTLY CONTACTED NISSAN AGAIN BECAUSE NISSAN HAS NOW ISSUED A RECALL CONCERNING THIS SAME PROBLEM (STEERING LOCK MALFUNCTION). AGAIN, NISSAN HAS IGNORED MY REQUESTS.

THE DASHBOARD IN MY NISSAN IS LITERALLY LIQUIFYING OVER THE LAST 7 MONTHS. THIS APPEARS TO BE KNOWN ISSUE THAT RESULTED IN CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN FL AGAINST NISSAN THAT WAS WON FOR THE PLANTIFFS. THERE IS FACEBOOK GROUP FOR NISSAN MELTING DASH BOARDS AND A NEWS STATION COVERED THE STORY: HTTPS://WWW.CLICK2HOUSTON.COM/CONSUMER/DRIVERS-WANT-STICKY-DASHBOARDS-FIXED I CONTACTED NISSAN, WHO REFERRED ME TO OUR LOCAL DEALERSHIP AND THEY DOCUMENTED ISSUE AND I WAS ULITMATELY REFERRED TO CAMERON, A REGIONAL NISSAN QA REPRESENTATIVE. I WAS TOLD AT THT TIME THAT NOTHING CAN BE DONE. I DID VERY CLEARLY (AND POLITELY) DESCRIBE THE SAFETY CONCERN AS THE MELTING DASHBOARD CAUSES A HORRIFIC GLARE ON THE WINDSHIELD. I DO INDEED UNDERSTAND THAT THE CAR IS OUT OF WARRANTY BUT GIVEN THE SAFETY HAZARD PIECE, I WAS HOPING THAT NISSAN WOULD STAND BY THIER PRODUCTS IN THIS CASE AND CONSIDER GENERATING A RECALL TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE. TOYOTA HAD A SIMILAR ISSUE AND OFFERED FULL REPLACEMENT.

CARBON BUILD-UP ON VALVES CAUSING MISFIRE AND THE BREAK DOWN OF THE CATALYST. CODES P0300 AND P0303 STORED IN ECM. REQUIRED REPLACEMENT OF LONG ENGINE ASSEMBLY AND EXHAUST MANIFOLD. INITIALLY, DEALERSHIP CITED NEED TO REPLACE IGNITION COIL, SOFTWARE UPDATE, FUEL LINE FLUSH. PICKED UP CAR AND IMMEDIATELY THE SERVICE LIGHT CAME BACK ON AND CAR BEGAN TO MISFIRE. RETURNED TO DEALERSHIP WHO SURMISED THAT THERE MIGHT BE A LOOSE WIRE. NOT THE ISSUE. DEALER CONTACTED NISSAN CORPORATE FOR DIRECTION WITH DIAGNOSTICS. CAR MILEAGE 59,802.