2005 Nissan Pathfinder

I WAS DRIVING WITH MY FAMILY ON THE HIGHWAY WHEN THE A/T TRANSMISSION BEGAN VIBRATING. THEN THE A/T TRANSMISSION BEGAN SLIPPING OUT OF GEAR. WAS ABLE TO COAST TO A GAS STATION AND INSPECT IT. TRANSMISSION FLUID HAS BEEN LEAKING IN MY COOLANT TANK AND RESERVOIR. COOLANT HAS MIXED WITH TRANSMISSION FLUID IN THE TRANSMISSION AND HAS CAUSED CATASTROPHIC FAILURE AS A RESULT. *JS

STOPPED AT RED LIGHT ONCE LIGHT CHANGED GREEN VEHICLE WOULD NOT PULL OFF. PRESS GAS TO FLOOR TO GET VEHICLE OUT OF THE WAY AND CROSSED THE STREET AND PULLED OFF OVER. TURNED VEHICLE OFF THEN TURNED IT ON IT WOULD DRIVE FORWARD BUT VERY SLOW WAS ABLE TO DO THIS TO GET TO STORE PARKING LOT TO CANAL FOR ASSISTANCE HAD SUV TAKEN TO TRANSMISSION SHOP AND WAS TOLD COOLANT WAS IN THE TRANSMISSION. *TR UPDATED 1/29/2015 *JS

WHILE DRIVING UPHILL ON THE FREEWAY, THE TRANSMISSION IN OUR NISSAN BEGAN TO SLIP THROUGH GEARS. I HAD TO GET TOWED OFF THE FREEWAY. I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO OUR MECHANIC AND LEARNED THE RADIATOR TRANS COOLER WAS LEAKING RADIATOR FLUID INTO THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM CAUSING CROSS CONTAMINATION AND FAILURE. OUR MECHANIC FLUSHED THE TRANS SYSTEM AND REPLACED THE RADIATOR. THE VEHICLE TRANSMISSION OPERATED OKAY FOR APPROX. 3 WEEKS THEN BEGAN TO SLIP AGAIN. NOW IT WILL NOT SHIFT OUT OF FIRST GEAR. I STARTED CHECKING INTO THIS AN LEARNED NISSAN WAS FACING A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT IN 2012 FOR RADIATOR/TRANS OIL CROSS CONTAMINATION ISSUES. THERE WAS A DEADLINE ON NISSAN'S SETTLEMENT IN EARLY 2013 WHERE THEY EXTENDED THE WARRANTY ON THE RADIATOR TO 100K AND WOULD COVER SUBSEQUENT REPAIRS TO THE TRANS. MY MILEAGE EXCEEDS 100K AND I KNEW NOTING ABOUT THE LAWSUIT BACK IN 2012 AND 2013 AND DID NOT HAVE A TRANS PROBLEM THEN. NISSAN WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP. IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO BESIDES FORK OUT ALL THIS MONEY TO HAVE THE TRANS REBUILT. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 NISSAN PATHFINDER. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH, THE VEHICLE VIBRATED. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE SPEED WAS REDUCED TO 20 MPH AND THE VEHICLE CAME TO A HALT. THE FAILURE OCCURRED ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A PRIVATE MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION AND RADIATOR NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 98,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE 144,000.

I WAS DRIVING ALONG A LOCAL ROAD AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, MY ENGINE STARTING REVVING AND THE CAR STARTED SLOWING DOWN. I STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT, BUT WHEN IT TURNED GREEN, MY CAR WOULDN'T MOVE FOR ABOUT A SECOND OR TWO WHEN I PRESSED THE GAS PEDDLE. WHEN IT DID MOVE, IT CRAWLED ALONG AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. I MANAGED TO GET IT HOME AND TOOK IT TO THE MECHANIC ON MONDAY. I WAS TOLD THAT COOLANT FROM MY RADIATOR LEAKED INTO MY TRANSMISSION AND DESTROYED IT. ON RESEARCHING THIS, I DISCOVERED THAT THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE IN 2005 - 2010 NISSAN TRUCKS BUT NISSAN WILL NOT COVER THE COST OF REPAIR EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE AWARE OF IT AND DID NOT ISSUE A RECALL. *TR

MY SUV BEGAN STUTTERING WHEN ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE GEARS. I LOOKED ON LINE AND FOUND THE PROBLEM THAT SO MANY HAVE BEEN HAVING, COOLANT LEAKING INTO TRANSMISSION CONTAMINATING IT. NISSAN SUGGESTED AN INITIAL TRANSMISSION FLUSH, BUT RECOMMENDS A $5,500 TRANSMISSION REPLACEMENT IN ADDITION TO A $620 RADIATOR. I CANNOT AFFORD THESE REPAIRS, AND I AM AFRAID TO CONTINUE DRIVING MY CAR. *TR

I WAS DRIVING MY TRUCK ON THE EXPRESSWAY AND I FELT VIBRATION WHEN IT SHIFT FROM FIRST TO SECOND GEAR AS I INCREASED THE SPEED THE VIBRATION GOT WORSE AND I FELT SOMETHING LIKE IT WAS TRYING TO PICK UP SPEED BUT IT COULD NOT AND FINALLY IT CAUGHT THE GEAR AND WAS ABLE TO PICK UP SPEED BUT AT THE SAME TIME MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. SO I WAS ABLE TO DRIVE IT HOME AND WHEN I GOT THERE I CALLED BILL KAY NISSAN TO TAKE IT I FOR SERVICE. WHEN I TOOK IT IN THEY CHECKED IT OUT AND I WAS INFORMED MY TRANSMISSION VALVE BODY HAD BECOME CONTAMINATED AND IT HAD TO BE REPLACED AND IT WOULD COST ME $2098 TO REPLACE IT AND IF I DIDN'T GET IT REPLACED IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE TRANSMISSION FLUID AND RADIATOR FLUID COULD MIX AND CAUSE THE TRANSMISSION TO GO BAD. MOVING FORWARD TO JUNE 9TH 2014, ON APPROXIMATELY MAY 3RD I NOTICED I BEGAN TO FEEL SOME VIBRATION AGAIN AND IT FELT THE SAME WAY IT FELT IN AUGUST OF 2013 AND ON JUNE 8TH THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON ONCE AGAIN SO I TOOK IT BACK TO BILL KAY NISSAN AND WAS TOLD THE TRANSMISSION AND RADIATOR FLUID HAD MIXED AND I WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE TRANSMISSION AND RADIATOR REPLACED AND NISSAN HAD AN EXTENDED WARRANTY OFFER BUT IT HAD A $2500 DEDUCTIBLE AND I WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT PORTION. I'VE ALREADY SPENT $2100 TO HAVE THE VALVE BOX REPLACED BECAUSE OF SOME CONTAMINATION AND NOW I'M BEING TOLD I HAVE TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON THE SAME THING. THIS IS NOT RIGHT. *TR

THE TORQUE CONVERTER IN THE TRANSMISSION FAILED. I NOTICED THE VEHICLE STUTTERING AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS DURING MY TIME ON THE ROAD. I HAD AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC CHECK IT AND A NISSAN DEALER CONFIRM THE DIAGNOSIS. I WAS TOLD THE RADIATOR AND THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION HAD TO BE REPLACED. I FOUND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ON-LINE SIMILAR TO MINE; THE 2005 MODEL SHOWED THE MOST PROBLEMS WITH THE TRANSMISSION. I DON'T HAVE THE $5,000 TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE. THE COMPANY EXTENDED SOME WARRANTIES DUE TO THIS PROBLEM, BUT ALL HAD EXPIRED OR I HAD TOO MANY MILES (131,000), AND A COPAY OF $3000 WAS REQUIRED. NOT MUCH OF AN OFFER FROM A LARGE THRIVING COMPANY. *TR

I GOT MY OIL CHANGED AT TEAM NISSAN IN LITHIA SPRINGS, AND ON THE 2ND DAY OF DRIVING THE VEHICLE MY 2005 PATHFINDER OVERHEATED. I IMMEDIATELY CALLED TEAM NISSAN AND TOLD THEM OF THE PROBLEM, AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY APOLOGIZE AND TO BRING IT IN. WELL THE SUV WAS TOO HOT TO PUT ON THE ROAD AT THAT POINT SO I STOPPED BY WAL-MART TO ADD COOLANT. I LET THE TRUCK COOL OFF AND THEN ADDED COOLANT. THE LEVELS THEN APPEARED NORMAL AND I MADE MY WAY TO TEAM NISSAN. WHEN I GOT THERE THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY COULD SEE ME AND TO COME BACK THE NEXT DAY. WHILE I WAS TALKING WITH THE REP. I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A GUY TOPPING OFF MY FLUIDS UNDER THE HOOD. WHEN I CAME BACK THE NEXT DAY, THEY CHECK IT AND TOLD ME THAT I HAD NO COOLANT AND THAT MY RADIATOR FLUID HAD LEAKED INTO THE TRANSMISSION AND THAT THE FLUIDS WERE MIXING. THE REPAIRS TOTALED UP TO $5028.43 INCLUDING A RADIATOR REPLACEMENT, COOLANT FLUSH, AND A TRANSMISSION REPLACEMENT. I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD HEARD OF OTHER RECALLS AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS (I HAD JUST HEARD ONE OF THE REPS CALL A CUSTOMER AND TELL HIM THAT HIS RECALL ON THE SAME ISSUES WERE COMPLETE AND THAT HE COULD PICK UP HIS VEHICLE), BUT HE SAID THAT NOTHING WAS SHOWING IN THE SYSTEM. I THEN TOLD HIM THAT I COULD NOT GET THAT DONE AT THIS TIME AND I ENQUIRED THAT I HAVE NOT HAD THIS ISSUE AT OTHER PLACES AFTER AN OIL CHANGE. HE GAVE ME AN EXCUSE AS THE GUY DID THE DAY BEFORE AND SHRUGGED ME OFF. HE SUGGESTED THAT I NEEDED TO CHECK THE COOLANT EVERY OTHER DAY AND THAT THE PROBLEM WAS LIKELY TO CONTINUE. SO THE WAITING GAME BEGINS. *TR