Five problems related to transmission stuck in gear have been reported for the 2013 Nissan Altima. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Nissan Altima based on all problems reported for the 2013 Altima.
Gear gets stuck too often to move. Cheap parts and is risky like on a parking stop trying to stop and your gear wont budge. My 2013 Altima transmission has always been vibrating too heavily, between 1500-2500 rpm in cold and exteremely hot weather situations, ever since I bought this vehicle (since Feb, 2014). Now the transmission completely failed and they are asking 4k to replace it.
My vehicle has 65k miles and has began to have sticking gears. The problem is is that after starting the car the gear will not move when pressing the breaks and lock release button. The problem occurs 7/10 times. This is a wide spread problem after 50k miles but Nissan refuses to recall the 2013 Nissan Altima models. The gear also gets stuck in drive when to where I can't move it to other gears when the car is in drive. This recently happened while at the car was and I was trying to switch to neutral.
My gear shift is stuck in park.
Gear shift is stuck in park. Using a pencil to push the shift release button is the only way to shift it into gear. Local mechanic noted that this is a common issue with Nissan Altimas.
My gear shift is stuck. Each time I want to drive, I have to use my key to push in the manual override for the gear shift. Not safe.