CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2013 has a growing number of transmission complaints at low mileage. The issue is part of a class-action lawsuit that says the transmissions shake violently during acceleration between 15mph and 30mph.
3.1
definitely annoying
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
44,252 miles
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The car has been stalling on us 4X. You drive the car and car only goes up to 20-30 mph and would not pick up speed. Brought to the Nissan service center X 3 and about to go for the 4th time. Nissan service cannot find anything wrong with the car in time of writing. It did not have any engine lights or warnings. Vehicle has currently have 52983 miles. The first two events were in a highway driving and the recent two are in a local road. All happened in dry and warm conditions.
The sun visors have a defect known by Nissan, but they have not issued a recall to correct it yet. Ours started by making a loud "clicking" noise, before losing the capability to stay either up or down. They hang down. We have slammed our foreheads into the rock hard visor edges when simply getting into the car or if there is a quick stop. We have had men, women and teens bump heads into the visor simply leaning forward to change the radio station. If we were to be rear-ended or in an accident, it would could easily gash open our foreheads or give a concussion. This is a safety hazard and Nissan will not acknowledge it. The sagging visors diminish vision and are going to kill someone if it is not addressed. This issue has been a known problem by Nissan, the service departments are aware of it, but Nissan will not offer anything other than removing the visor or having the consumer pay $160 for each visor to correct.
Interior driver side door handle failed to open. Had it repaired in 2015. Interior door handle passenger side failed to open starting.8/15/2018. In order to get out of vehicle you must roll down the window. Huge safety concern.
Driver side interior door handle hardware failed - disconnecting the door handle and the door cable and entrapping the occupant. Door can only be opened from the outside. Effectively this means that the car must maintain electrical power sufficient to rolls down the window in order to reach through and access a serviceable door handle. I have raised the issue to Nissan on 3 occasions but have not been taken seriously. Perhaps your will have more success - godspeed!
- Simpsonville, SC, USA
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Driver side door handle and back passenger door handle both broke and the back door is used very little poor design and safety issue if needing to exit the vehicle in an emergency situation
The driver sun visor will not stay up any more. It just dangles. This is unsafe because it blocks the drivers vision. It doesn't matter if the vehicle is stationary or in motion. This started progressing back in March 2018 and now it just dangles.
Driving 35 mph on city street, no cars in immediate vicinity, no overpasses or bridges, no low-hanging trees and my sunroof exploded. It sounded like something large had been dropped on the roof of my car. I pulled to the side of the road and examined the roof of the car. There were no signs that anything had fallen onto the car as there was no paint damage or dents. However, the entire sunroof was shattered. Upon removing the broken glass from the area, it was clear there was nothing inside the sunroof area that had impacted the glass.
2013 Nissan Pathfinder driver's interior door handle / mechanism broke: Just drove home & parked in my garage...then, while trying to exit my car like usual, using the interior door handle from the driver side location, something in the door made a noise and handle stopped working and will not unlock nor open the door...!. in order to exit the car from the driver position, I have to roll down the window to reach the outside handle (which works) or have someone open the driver's door from outside...! this is dangerous, especially if there is an emergency and myself or someone else, cannot exit the car, in a safe amount of time..! it is clearly really poor engineering & quality on Nissan's part...and should be recalled due to overall safety issue....
The door handles on this vehicle break. They repair them, and they break again. My deal is this is a point of egress in the event of an emergency. How can they justify making customers pay for a part they know was designed terribly. On top of that, if my car catches on fire....how can they justify making me climb over seats to get out. There are businesses fined for having the wrong kind of door release on their doors. This is no different.
I recently purchased a Nissan and the visor slowly began to get lower and lower and now is O structure G visibility and is a safety hazard. I returned to the dealer and it's over warrenty because it had 33K miles, emailed Nissan no answer. Dealer says it happens very often, to fix is over 300.90
The car computer is [xxx] up - the car is shut down on the highway. I need Nissan to fix this at no cost - the has given me trouble from day one. Information redacted pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).
The front sun visors will no longer hold themselves up. If left alone, they would hang down in the driver's field of vision. They are currently being held up with velcro. They have been this way for some time, but the car is out of warranty. This is a well documented failure and should be fixed on all models affected.
On 08/16/2016 I purchased a motor vehicle from star Nissan located at 5757 w. touhy ave., niles, il 60714 (2013 Nissan Pathfinder SUV VIN). On October of 2016 I was driving in the express way going 60mph and my vehicle suddenly stopped accelerating and came to a complete stop while I had other vehicle passing me by at 60+ mph. I had to pull to the side to avoid getting hit in the rear. The vehicle finally took off but not without jerking and rattling noises. I immediately came off the express way. I took the vehicle to star Nissan and they admitted my car on 10/22/2016. I was contacted by Nissan and was told that they replicated the problem and the cvt would need to be changed and everything should be fine. The changes were made and on 10/28/2016 I received the vehicle back. My vehicle has been back to the dealer on 11/12/2016, 11/16/2016, 04/22/2017, 07/12/2017 7/28/2017 with the same symptoms and the problem has never been rectified. On 07/01/2017 my vehicle was driven by a Nissan service technician for 237 miles in order to replicate the problem again. They were successful but now stated that the problem was a relay light. They gave me the vehicle back on 07/06/2017. My vehicle was admitted again on 07/25/2017 with the same problems. The technician had to drive my vehicle 344 miles to replicate the symptoms once again. However my vehicle was admitted until 08/17/2017. The Nissan Consumer Affairs office sent out an engineer who made recommendations. The recommendation was to remove brake light relay and replace brake switch. I was given the vehicle back and the problems has persist. On 11/13/2017 my car jerked and came to a stop in the middle of a busy intersection this has been a nightmare and I have almost been a part of an accident on several occasion due to this problem. I am now car-less because this vehicle is not safe to drive.
The sun visor started slowly sagging down on both the driver and passengers side. They make a loud popping sound when engaged. They no longer lift to the closed position. Since there isn't a recall on this part Nissan I'll have to come out of pocket to replace both. I bought this vehicle a year ago and the visors have always made a loud popping sound when you engage the visor.
Drivers side and passenger sun visors will not stay in the up position. They hang down and block the view all around. We have fixed them 3 times already. The warranty had just expired he first time it happened and Nissan wants to charge $175 each time it breaks.
Driver's interior door handle broke and you cannot exit the vehicle without rolling down the window and opening from the exterior. This a safety problem if there was an accident and the window would not go down.
Both sunvisors of my car broke and have significantly affected my field of vision not to mention that it sticks out into my face when I drive. T the sunvisor can't be stored safely (click into position)and can't be placed in front of the sun because it is dangling- broke. The same happened to my passenger side. My husband put clamps to hold them back but today I finally went to Nissan to replace them. It cost $313!!! I have owned many cars and the sunvisors have never broken.... I filed a complaint with Nissan but they didn't consider thisome a recall.
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- Denville, NJ, USA