2015 Nissan Sentra POWER TRAIN,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Car has 72000 miles in it it has given no indication on dash except cruise control went out. The transmission is slipping and both the front passenger and drivers door handles are messed up up.

The car had problems with failing to start and failing to accelerate while driving. Check engine light came on and OBD scanner indicated it was the CVT. The car was inspected and repaired in March 2023. In 2025 (the same problem of check engine indicating the CVT) is occurring. CVT sensor was replaced; however, two weeks later the check engine light is back on indicating CVT issues and is now also overheating.

This particular vehicle exhibits a very strong, almost dash rattling judder when moving from the 1st to 2nd gearing ratio. This is especially dangerous in traffic and intersections where the vehicle is known to be in 1st or 2nd gear ratio, as Nissan likes to ratio out their CVT in software through the TCM to produce what feels like shifting from gear-to-gear as in a normal automatic transaxle. What makes this situation extremely bad is that when entering an on-ramp to the interstate (I-20 for example) it will intermittently judder from 1st to 2nd and then no power. After the judder it takes another few seconds for the TCM to figure out what happened and engage maybe more valve body pressure? I'm not sure completely, but it's extremely unsafe to drive. The Altima/Rogue with the same transaxle and model year run was issued a TSB and subsequently a TCM update was issued to rectify the early shudder, but the Sentra did not receive that update. The TCM output data shows that when this shudder is happening that there is a loss in hydraulic pressure somewhere in the unit. As Nissan says you never are supposed to change the fluid, this creates a very serious issue not only with the transmission, but warranty as well. The safety risk to others is high on this one because this could cause major rear-end conditions and city driving collisions as the car is supposed to be accelerating but can't because the transaxle was slipping and not gaining speed with the rest of the vehicles as expected.

Me and my daughter was pulling out onto a bypass highway and the car wouldn't go anywhere and we were stuck in the middle of the highway with cars coming towards us. So I had to jump out and while it was still in drive I had to push it out of the highway so we wouldn't get hit by the on coming traffic. I finally pushed it fast enough and jumped back into the car and pressed the gas pedal and it caught so I could drive it home and I parked it.

Bought 2015 Nissan Sentra SR from Nissan West in Dickson, TN. The car didn't even a lot of miles on it. Not even a month after having the car, the transmission went out. Car started acting up on the interstate. Would not shift gears, wouldn't go over a certain amount of speed, almost caused us to be hit multiple times. Finally got it to Nissan West dealership where they did confirm transmission was no good. Nissan West, reworked the transmission instead of giving us a new transmission. Now, over a year and 3 months later, the transmission went out again. Has been confirmed by Nissan West in Dickson, TN. The transmission had only a little over 10,000 miles on it. This time I was pulling out onto a busy street when the car out of the blue would not go forwards or backwards. Luckily we did not get hit and we had to push the car out of the middle of the road.

The CVT in this car is faulty. The transmission has been rebuilt but it still has the same issue. The transmission doesn’t di room properly and although the rpm’s increase the car will not accelerate. I’ve taken the car to Nisan dealerships. They now deny that this issue exists and will not offer a fix. The car is a safety hazard. It loses the ability to accelerate at low and high speeds. While on the highway or in the city the car loses the ability to maintain or increase speed. There is also a known issue with this car related to the brake switch and moisture in the tail light. The dealership knows by way of Nissan corporation sharing an article with them about this issue in other cars and knows that the brake switch is faulty and that the car can brake and accelerate at the same time but no recall has been issued. These issues are ongoing, have been happening since the car was about 3 years old and happen regularly.

2015 NISSAN SENTRA S AT 65,000 MILES ON FOUR RANDOM OCCASSIONS WITHIN THE PAST SIX MONTHS I HAVE EXPERIENCED THESE TWO ISSUES WHILE DRIVING THE HIGHWAY AT 70 MPH, LOSS OF POWER AND HWY STALLING. THIS VEHICLE'S TRANSMISSION SHOULD NOT BE CREATING THIS. I HAVE HAD TO STOP DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY DUE TO THIS. TRANSMISSION/HWY LOSS OF POWER WHILE ACCELERATING

WHILE DRIVING70 MPH THE VEHICLE STALLED WITHOUT WARNING I PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE. WAIT FOR COUPLE MINUTES AND STEP ON THE GAS VEHICLE FAILED TO ACCELERATE. TURNED THE ENGINE OFF WAIT FOR 10 MIN TURNED THE ENGINE ON AND VEHICLE RESPOND. THIS IS HAPPENING SINCE VEHICLE WAS 7 MONTHS OLD. TOOK IT TO THE DEALER THEY SAID EVERITHIG IS FINE. IM STILL HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM EVEN WORSE

TOOK MY CAR IN FOR A WHINING SOUND. WAS TOLD AT NISSAN HWY 96 IN WARNER ROBINS THAT I NEEDED A TRANSMISSION AND THAT MY WARRANTY EXPIRED AT 60000 MILES. MY CAR LOOSE POWER ON INCLINE AND IS MAKING A WHINING SOUND. SLUGGISH IN CHANGING GEARS AND JUST SEEMS TO SLOW DOWN EVEN WHEN I AM PUSHING THE GAS .

AFTER ABOUT JUST A FEW WEEKS OF PURCHASING THE CAR, IT STARTED SHIFTING HARDER THAN IT SHOULD ON OCCASION, OTHER TIMES IT WOULD BE FINE. THEN ON WAY HOME FROM WORK ON THE HWY IT STOPS ACCELERATING SO I FLOOR IT JUST TO GET ANY SPEED, THEN IT WOULD ACCELERATE AGAIN SOMEWHAT NORMALLY. DID THIS FOR ABOUT 1 WEEK BEFORE I COULD TAKE TO NISSAN DEALERSHIP FOR INSPECTION. THEY DO NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT WHICH WAS NOT THE CASE AND I KNEW BETTER B/C WHILE THEY WERE CHECKING THE CAR OUT, THEY LOANED ME A CAR TO GET BACK AND FORTH TO WORK AND IT WAS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME CAR, MAY OF BEEN A YEAR NEWER OR OLDER BUT IT WAS A SENTRA. THIS SENTRA DROVE SO MUCH SMOOTHER AND I KNEW MINE HAD AN ISSUE THEN. BUT THEY INSISTED NO PROBLEM. I HAD THE CAR BACK 1 DAY FROM THEM AND IT STARTS ACTING UP THE SAME WAY BUT WORSE TILL IT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE FOR ME AT ALL. LIKE IT WAS DYING ON ME WHICH IT DID SO I HAD TO HAVE IT TOWED BACK TO THE SAME NISSAN DEALERSHIP ONLY TO HAVE TO HAVE A NEW TRANSMISSION PUT IN. CAR HAD JUST UNDER 60,000 MILES ON IT AND MY WARRANTY WAS FIXING TO END HOWEVER IT IS STARTING TO WORRY ME A LITTLE B/C IT IS ACTING UP AGAIN SLIGHTLY. I FEAR ITS THE SAME ISSUE CVT TRANSMISSION AND MY WARRANTY IS EXPIRES. I AM VERY UPSET B/C I FEEL LIKE THE CAR IS A LEMON AND I MAY BE STUCK WITH THE PIECE OF JUNK AND UPSIDE DOWN AND TOO BROKE TO GET ANOTHER CAR. NOT FAIR