Hello, I have been trying to save my Altima by driving easy and performing all the maintenance on it including dealer serviced tranny drain/fill/filter. Car has been golden, but 2 days ago driving on the interstate I felt a jerk and knew immediatly it was the tranny. Car went from no slippage to it stalling out if I came to a redlight, limped her home going very slow and using neutral at stops. Dealer says car's out of the extended warranty, so I'm out of luck. With car prices crazy is it worth paying $6k for a tranny, or is this a sign to cut and run?
I would cut my losses and move on.
Current Altima owner, I had the same issue with it too and got my CVT transmission fixed under warranty. However, It gave me a bad taste on CVT's so would say to cut and run. Use the money to get something more reliable.
Right! I know several people with similar year Nissan's with the same powertrain. Every single one had electrical and mechanical issues from Rogues to Altimas. Mine has literally been rock solid perfect since I bought it, I figured I had the golden goose. I do love this car, even dying she did get me back to my property once I let the tranny cool down. But with all the other issues between head-gasket failures and electrical nightmares that's why I'm juggling fixing or replacing! I needed another year, wanted a Maverick but they won't be easily found for many more months :-/
Find an independent mechanic to check it out, not a dealer. In the last eight years, how many times did you change the transmission fluid and filter? I would get a full scan to see what comes up.
It was done at 50k, I was planning on doing it at ever 50k increments hoping to get 150k out of it. The Tranny's have a design flaw where they easily overheat and slowly cook themselves to death. Nissan extended the warranty on 'Some' to 10 years 120k miles, but my year they only extended it to 7 years 84k. And my Warranty expired in February 2021.