2006 Nissan Xterra

FUEL SENDING UNIT CEASED TO FUNCTION. DEALERSHIP SAID THE VEHICLE WAS NOT ON THE RECALL LIST. FULL TANK REGISTERS AFTER 50 OR SO MILES AND THEN DROPS TO EMPTY AROUND 120 MILES. WE ARE FORCED TO FILL THE TANK FULL, RESET THE ODOMETER AND NEVER GO PAST 325 MILES. TWICE I HAVE BEEN TRAVELLING AT FREEWAY SPEEDS WHEN THE CAR STEERING LOCKS UP AND VEHICLE LOSES POWER. BOTH TIMES I HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO LIMP OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WITHOUT INCIDENT. BOTH TIMES OCCURRED LATE AT NIGHT AND ALONE. ONE LOCATION I WAS FORCED TO WALK ALONG THE ROAD UNTIL MY PHONE REGISTERED A SIGNAL. I BELIEVE THIS OCCURRED AROUND 70,000 MILES. TO DATE, WE HAVE NOT FIXED THE PROBLEM AND IF WE LIVED IN AN EMISSIONS CONTROLLED CITY, WE PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE DRIVING IT RIGHT NOW AS IT HAS THROWN A CODE AND ACTIVATED THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW WHO QUALIFIED TO HAVE THIS REPAIRED. BASED ON WHAT I HAVE READ, NOT MANY AND CERTAINLY NOT THOSE WHO TOO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE PROBLEM. I LOVED MY XTERRA BUT DUE TO THE LACK OF CARE AND ISSUES IGNORED BY NISSAN, I STEER PEOPLE AWAY FROM BUYING ONE.

NO PROBLEMS IN FIVE YEARS OF OWNERSHIP. THE FOLLOWING TOOK PLACE IN LESS THAN 7 DAYS. TRUCK WAS FUELED UP AT COSTCO AND 30 MINUTES LATER WAS SHUDDERING WHEN STOPPED, WE THOUGHT WE GOT A BAD TANK OF GAS. TRUCK HAD A CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. MISFIRING CYLINDER, COIL REPLACED. TWO DAYS LATER, CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. REPLACED O2 SENSOR. A DAY OR TWO LATER CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. HAD A LOSS OF POWER. TRUCK WAS IN LIMP MODE. DROVE TO THE DEALER AND THEY DIAGNOSED REPLACING THE FAILED CATALYTIC CONVERTER (RIGHT REAR) AND THE TIMING CHAIN, TENSIONERS ETC. SALESMAN SAID THAT WE SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THE TIMING CHAIN AT 60,000 MILES. WHICH I HAVE NEVER SEEN LISTED IN THE MAINTENANCE. THE TRUCK WAS PURCHASED USED AT 64,000 MILES.

THE RADIATOR CRACKED CAUSING INTERMIX WITH TRANSMISSION FLUID I FOUND AFTER THE OCCURANCES. WHILE DRIVING THE TRANSMISSION STARTED SLIPPING OUT OF GEAR WHILE IN MOTION IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC ON CITY STREETS. THE NEXT TIME I DROVE IT SEEMED OKAY. I ENTERED A CURVING ONRAMP AND SUDDENLY THE TRANSMISSION SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR, THE ENGINE REVVED HIGH, AND JERKED HARD BACK IN TO GEAR, SPINNING THE WHEELS AND CAUSING ME TO GO SIDEWAYS NEAR ANOTHER VEHICLE. I QUICKLYQUICKLY REGAINED CONTROL, AND CONTINUED DRIVING TO THE NEAREST EXIT. THE TRANSMISSION SLIPPED A COUPLE MORE TIMES, CAUSING ME TO SLOW DOWN BUT NO LOSS OF CONTROL. THIS COULD HAVE CAUSED A FATAL ACCIDENT, AND THOUGH I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE OKAY, I HAD TO PAY $3700 TO FIX IT. THIS OCCURRED AT 102,000 MILES AND HAPPENS TO EVERY XTERRA, PATHFINDER, AND FRONTIER FROM 2005-2007. THEIR SHOULD BE A RECALL BEFORE THIS RESULTS IN DEATHS. IT WILL INEVITABILITY CAUSE FATALITIES.

ANYTIME I PUT GAS IN MY CAR , THE FUEL GAUGE INDICATOR DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY. I CAN DRIVE WITH A FULL TANK OF GAS AND THE INDICATOR SAYS IT ON EMPTY. AND THEN IT WILL GRADUALLY START GOING UP, BUT IT TAKES DAYS FOR IT TO WORK PROPERLY. ALSO, IF IT WORKING PROPERLY, I CAN STOP A RED LIGHT, AND IF THE CAR STAYS STANDING IN ONE PLACE NOT MOVING THE INDICATOR ALSO DROPS TO E.

I WAS DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE AT ABOUT 70 MILES PER HOUR WENT MY CAR STARTING LOSING POWER AND JERKING. THE CARS BEHIND ME WERE GETTING RIGHT BEHIND MY CAR AND SLOWING DOWN,THEY WERE YELLING AT ME TO SPEED UP AND, I WAS SO SCARED ONE OF THEM WOULD HIT THE BACK OF MY CAR AND CAUSE A ACCIDENT AND KILL ME,I TRIED TO GET THE CAR TO THE TO THE SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE BUT HAD A HARD TIME CROSSING TRAFFIC,I WAS PRAYING TO MAKE IT ACROSS WITH OUT GETTING .NISSION KNEW THAT MY XTERIA WAS WAS RECALLED FOR THIS ISSUE BUT DID NOT SEND ME A RECALL NOTICE OR ANYTHING IN THE MAIL,NOW THEY WANT ME TO PAY THE FIRST $3000 TO FIX MY TRANSMISSION. BUT THEY BUILD THE CAR THAT WAY SO I THINK THEY SHOULD FIX IT. I HAD A GUY WHO WORKED ON MY CAR BEFORE AND HE SAID THAT DUE TO A CRACKED COOLANT LEAK INTO MY TRANSMISSION, MY TRANSMISSION WENT OUT. I SURE WISH NO ONE ELSE WENT THROUGH THE SAME THING ON THE INTERSTATE, IT WAS BAD., I AM DISABLED AND CANNOT AFFORD THE $3000 SO MY CAR IS NOW USELESS AND I HAVE NO WAY TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.

THE TRANSMISSION FAILED DURING HEAVY COMMUTE TRAFFIC HWY AT 60MPH CREATING A NEAR MISS MULTI VEHICLE COLLISION. NO INJURIES OR ACCIDENT OCCURED BECAUSE OF THE MALFUNCTION. THE VEHICLE LOST POWER AND WAS PULLED SAFELY TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE CAUSE OF THE TRANSMISSION FAILURE WAS DIAGNOSED TO BE TRANSMISSION FAILURE DUE TO CONTAMINATION FROM ENGINE COOLANT. A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS MAKE AND MODEL AS THOUSANDS OF CONSUMER COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN FILED BUT IGNORED BY THE NHTSA AND NISSAN. THE FACTORY RADIATOR HAS A KNOWN DEFECT WHICH CAUSED THE INTERCOOLER TUBING FROM THE TRANSMISSION TO THE RADIATOR TO CRACK AND FAIL THUS CAUSING CROSS CONTAMINATION OF TRANMISSION FLUID AND ENGINE COOLANT FROM THE RADIATOR TO MIX AND DESTROY THE TRANSMISSION. THE FAILURE REQUIRES REPLACEMENT OF THE RADIATOR AND REPLACEMENT OR REBUILDING OF THE TRANSMISSION AT A COST OF $5,500. IN OVER 45 YEARS OF DRIVING ALL MAKES,YEARS AND MODELS OF VEHICLES BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, I HAVE NEVER HAD ONE FAILURE OF THIS TYPE BEFORE, EVEN IN VEHICLES WITH OVER 300,000 MILES OF USE. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN AN ENGINEERING DEFECT EITHER PURPOSEFULLY DESIGNED AS BUILT IN OBSOLESCENSE, OR OVERLOOKED AND DENIED BY NISSAN AS A MATERIALS DEFECT IN MANUFACTURING. ANYONE CAN USE A SEARCH ENGINE ON THE INTERNET TO FIND THAT THIS IS A COMMON OCCURANCE BUT NO RECALL HAS BEEN ENACTED BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN NO DEATHS REPORTED YET. BECAUSE MY VEHICLE IS OUT OF WARRANTY, BUT OF THIS LOW MILAGE, IT WAS NOT A MAINTENANCE ISSUE, AS IT IS A 2 WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE NOT USED FOR OFF ROAD BUT STANDARD PAVED ROADWAY USE. OIL CHANGES AND INSPECTIONS WERE COMPLETED AS RECOMMENDED.

WE WERE PULLING A LIGHT 18 FOOT TRAILER UP A STEEP HILL, AT LOW SPEED DUE TO THE GRADE. IT WAS ON HWY 89, ABOUT 5 MILES W OF GARDEN CITY, UTAH. THE RPM OF THE CAR RACED UP TO 4,000, IT LOST POWER AND LUGGED. WE WERE FORTUNATE THAT THERE WAS A TURN OFF A VERY SHORT DISTANCE AHEAD. WE WERE ALSO FORTUNATE THAT THE FAILURE DID NOT OCCUR WHEN WE WERE TURNING LEFT IN FRONT OF ON-COMING TRAFFIC. THE ENGINE WAS SMOKING HOT, EVEN THOUGH THE RADIATOR DIDN'T SHOW ANY HEAT. IT TOOK A WHILE TO RECOGNIZE THE ISSUE.

ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2015, WHILE DRIVING FROM MARYLAND TO VIRGINIA, ON A SPEED LIMIT OF 55, VEHICLE SLOWED DOWN AND TRANSMISSION WONT ENGAGED WHILE ACCELERATING THE GAS PEDAL, RPM WAS GOING TO THE HIGHER NUMBER/RED ZONE AND CAR WILL NOT MOVE FASTER UP TO THE NOTED SPEED LIMIT. WHEN WE STOP AT THE LIGHT, AND THE LIGHTS TURN GREEN, THE VEHICLE WILL NOT MOVE AND MAKE LOUD NOISE AND RPM GOING HIGHER TO THE RED ZONE NUMBERS. THIS CAUSED TRAFFIC BEHIND US BACK UP BECAUSE OF SPEED TOO SLOW IN A 55-MILE PER HOUR SPEED. I WAS AFRAID IT COULD HAVE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT. THIS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES DURING A 200-MILE TRAVEL FROM MARYLAND TO VIRGINIA. I READ THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL COMPLAINTS ABOUT NISSAN VEHICLES ABOUT RADIRATOR WATER LEAKS TO THE TRANSMISSION AND CAUSING IT TO MALFUNCTION. ACCORDING THE PRICE TRANSMISSION EXPERTS, THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM AND THE COST TO REPAIR WILL COST $4,400.00 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE NISSAN PAY THE REPAIR COST.

THE FIRST INCIDENT WAS A COUPLE MONTHS AGO WHEN MY CAR JUST DECIDED TO STOP IN TRAFFIC ALL THE SUDDEN. JUST SHUT DOWN. THEN YESTERDAY I WAS DRIVING TO WORK AND A CAR IN FRONT OF ME DECIDED TO SLOW DOWN. WHEN I HIT THE BREAKS TO SLOW DOWN THE CAR WOULD NOT ACCELERATE BACK UP IT DECREASED. I COULD NOT GET IT TO GO. I RESTARTED THE CAR AND IT TURNED ON AND WENT AGAIN. I LOOKED AT THIS WEBSITE AND SAW ALL THE COMPLAINTS.I HAVE HAD ALL THE SAME ISSUES WITH STALLING, NOT STARTING, AND NO ACCELERATION. I TOOK IT TO A TRANSMISSION SHOP AND THEY COULD NOT DETECT ANYTHING WRONG AS NO CODES AND OF COURSE IT DID NOT DO IT FOR THEM WHEN THEY TEST DROVE IT. I TOOK MY CAR TO THE NISSAN DEALERSHIP SHOWED THEM THE PRINT OUT FROM THIS SITE AND TOLD THEM I AM HAVING ALL THOSE PROBLEMS WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS. THEY TOLD ME SINCE MY VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL THEY BASICALLY COULD NOT HELP WITHOUT CHARGING ME $900 FOR A RADIATOR PLUS THE ENGINE CONTROL MODULE $78. I HAD TO PAY $100 JUST FOR THEM TO LOOK AT IT. THEY TOLD ME A WHOLE NEW TRANSMISSION WOULD BE $9000. THIS IS A HORRIBLE PROBLEM THIS VEHICLE IS HAVING AND IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR YOUR CAR TO JUST TURN OFF WHILE DRIVING. I HAVE A SMALL CHILD IN THE CAR WITH ME. VERY SCARY WOULD COULD HAPPEN. I DO NOT CARE WHAT THE MILEAGE IS ON THE VEHICLE. NISSAN NEEDS TO INCLUDE ALL XTERRA'S NO MATTER WHAT THE VIN IS FOR THE TIME FRAME! ALL THESE COMPLAINTS NEED ACTION. I LITTLE TO QUINKY DINK THEY ARE ALL HAPPENING NOW! NISSAN DEALERSHIP TOLD ME THEY WOULD RECOMMEND: ECM RELAY $78, RADIATOR $740, PLUS SOME OTHER MAINTENANCE STUFF. WHEN I WENT TO LEAVE AFTER HAVING THEM REPLACE THE. ECM I HAD A LOVELY LETTER STATING THEY DID A COMPLIMENTARY APPRAISAL OF MY VEHICLE. THEY DID EVERYTHING TO CONFIRM IT IS THE PROBLEM, BUT OFFERED NO HELP UNLESS I FORK OUT THE $$$$$.