Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN | |||
| 03/15/2003 | 6000 | ||
| 1) ongoing intermittent problems with gears grinding, gears popping out (while driving no less!), gears refusing to go into proper gear (especially a problem with reverse.) dealer tells us car drives fine for them and problems cannot be replicated. several observers have seen and heard these problems on various occasions. dealer continues to tell us that there are no problems with the transmission. 2) car refused to start and needed to be towed to dealer, where upon we were told the car started right up for us. this problem has not recurred as of this date. note: the exact milage may not be accurate, but is close. the car only has 13,000 miles on it. | |||
| 06/02/2003 | 6 | 06/18/2002 | |
| While braking the vehicle suddenly surged forward. this has occurred on six occasions. *jb *cb *nlm | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||
| 10/01/2010 | 80000 | ||
| Tl-the contact owns a 2002 nissan sentra. while driving 15 mph, the engine would stall intermittently. the engine will not start and when it does it will not stay started. the vehicle was taken to the dealer who had it for five months but could not duplicate a failure. the manufacturer was contacted who informed the contact that there were no related recalls and did not offer any additional assistance. the failure mileage was 80,000. bw | |||
| 07/26/2005 | 30456 | 2 | 06/23/2002 |
| Dt: contact stated transmission fell apart at 38,456 miles, and the second one fell apart a t39,007 miles. contact talked to the dealer, who replaced the transmission . but he said they would only put rebuilt parts into it. contact would like a new transmission. the first one was put in on 7-1-05. she assumed the first transmission was not put together correctly, and the second one was replaced with rebuilt parts on 7-26-05. *ak | |||
| 09/01/2004 | 2 | 02/01/2002 | |
| While driving or at idle the vehicle would stall. *nm recall number 03v455000 . engine and transmission problems consisting in engine stalling while vehicle was running at low rates of speed. service engine soon light comes on. vehicle was taken in for service and the problem still exists. *tc | |||
| 04/17/2004 | 16850 | 4 | 06/01/2002 |
| When driving at any speed vehicle stalled. *ak vehicle also intermittently jerk when shifting gears. *la | |||
| 09/04/2002 | 11900 | 3 | 06/01/2002 |
| While driving at any speed and without prior warning, the vehicle stalled intermittently.*ak while driving 35-45 mph the vehicle jerked when shifting gears. while stopped at a red lights the vehicle has stalled numerous times. one time it stalled four times within one mile. the vehicle was taken to the dealer but they were unable to duplicate the problem. the consumer retrieved the vehicle from the dealer and continued to drive it all winter with no problems. when the weather became warm the vehicle began to stall again. the dealer was still unable to duplicate or correct the stalling problem. the consumer is afraid to drive the vehicle. *ph *nm | |||
| POWER TRAIN - MANUAL TRANSMISSION | |||
| 08/11/2004 | 1345 | 10 | 05/03/2002 |
| Intermittently while driving at any speed and shifting any gear the vehicle stalled. the dealership inspected the vehicle 10 times on different occasions, and could not duplicate or correct the problem. *ak there were numerous probles with engine stalling, the maf had to be replace numerous times, the check engine and the reverse light did not work properly. (the wiring harness also repeated intermittent problems) the engine would stall when the clutch was depressed and when in neutral idling and when shifting the gears. the front speaker/tweeters made cracking noises. the cooling fan would come on when not activated. *sc *jb | |||