general problems of the 2000 Nissan Altima

While driving the dashboard goes out completely. You can not tell how fast you're going or what the rpm is or anything, including the gas gauge. When this happens, sometimes the car begins to lose power as if the gas pedal isn't working and then all of a sudden it comes back and you get propelled forward. This happens very frequently and I'm afraid that I am going to get a speeding ticket one day because there is no way for me to tell how fast I am going when the dashboard goes dead and even worse I'm afraid I'm either going to lose speed and get rear-ended or gain speed and be propelled into the vehicle in front of me. I have researched this, and this is a very common problem with this year, make, and model vehicle. In all the other complaints that I have found online, they all go to the mechanics and they can not figure out the problem. I believe this is a vehicle defect and the electrical unit on the dashboard needs to be recalled and fixed before someone gets injured or killed due to this malfunction. Also, this electrical issue causes the service engine light to turn on and gives a misread when you take it in to be diagnosed.

Throttle assembly continues to fall apart while driving vehicle, disengaging the throttle and rendering the vehicle helpless and unable to accelerate at all.

The contact owns a 2000 Nissan Altima. The contact stated that the vehicle automatically accelerates when idle and he must slam on the brake pedal to keep the vehicle from moving. The failure occurs at random. The current mileage is 37,000 and failure mileage was 32,000.

When driving, gauges suddenly stop working. The tachometer, engine temperature gauge, fuel gauge freeze in place. The speedometer registers the max and the digital odometer went to zero.

I have experienced 2 dangerous incidents of sudden unanticipated acceleration with my 2000 Nissan Altima se (VIN # 1n4dl01d8yc137536). The first, witnessed by my husband & son, occurred on December 26, 2003. Approaching a red light, I slowed to a stop with my foot squarely on the brake. The engine suddenly raced alarmingly and the car tried to lurch through the light. I put the car in neutral and the engine racing increased. I turned the car off. The head mechanic at our local dealership had no ideas. Against my better judgment, I took the car back. The next weekend, it happened again. I pulled backwards out of a parking spot, put the car in drive, and the engine suddenly took off. The rpms registered within seconds up to 6500 rpms. Put in neutral, the rpms increased to 7000 rpms. I turned the car off. I told our local Nissan dealership that I would not drive the car until this dangerous problem was diagnosed and fixed. On the Nissan hotline (1-800-Nissan-1), the customer relations representatives told (1) their technical services department was unfamiliar with this problem (Nissan later said that, although they had received customer complaints, they had never been able to replicate the problem in a shop); and (2) if the problem could not be "replicated" in shop, then, in effect, "there was no problem" and no remedy. I went online and found that s. U. A. Is a major problem nationally. I could not drive this car, could not allow a family member to drive this car, and could not sell the car. After almost six weeks without my car, I traded it back to the local dealership at considerable loss with the understanding that they would continue to try to replicate the problem and would not re-sell the vehicle to an uninformed consumer. I have 35 years of solid driving experience. There is no possibility of driver error here. The public needs your help.

Stopped at red light, car raced to 4500 rpms, foot on brake. Put in netural, kicked gas pedal, raced even higher, kicked it again, it slowed down. Went 500 feet, raced to 7000 rpms. Took to dealer, nothing found wrong. Happened again on the 12 of October, then again on the 14 of October. At dealership now they are going to drive it until it happens to them. Scary situation. Any help would be appreciated. . . . Thanks for your time and consideration. Mr.

While feet was on brakes vehicle accelerated at a high speed, causing an accident. Resulting in driver and passenger injuries.

Vehicle started to lurch foward while pulling into a parking space. Vehicle taken to a dealer, and dealer was unable to locate cause of problem. Consumer stated the throttle sensor was replaced the first time the incident happened.

Consumer had to use a lot of force when applying brakes. Engine revved up to 2500 rpms,not stopping at any occasion. Dealer just fixed it & twice it has done the same. There was surge in engine while stoped at light, and the rpm went from 750-2500. Although the vehicle was seviced, the problem reoccured. The dealer found out that the cause was a faulty throttle position switch. However, the problem still exists after the switch was replaced.