Automatic Transmission Torque Converter problems of the 2014 Nissan Altima

Tl- the contact owns a 2014 Nissan Altima. The contact stated that while driving a 30 mph, the vehicle stalled without warning. The battery light illuminated after the vehicle shut off. The contact attempted to restart the vehicle but to no avail. The vehicle was towed to buckeye Nissan 3820 parkway ln, hilliard, OH 43026 (614) 771-2345 where the torque converter and the transmission were replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and informed the contact that they had performed updates to the new transmission that was placed in the vehicle and assured him that the failure would not occur again. The vehicle had been repaired. The failure mileage was 84,300. Jo.

I have a 2014 Nissan Altima. One morning after having drove about 15 miles on the city street, turning my car off and then on again after about 10 minutes, my car started shutting off when put in drive. I had to get it towed. My mechanic called Nissan and gave them the failure code. He was told that it was the torque converter. It was locked and so the transmission needed to be replaced. I've been reading up on this and other complaints. Nissan issued a recall on the cvt reprogramming, but I think they know that there is more wrong with the transmissions they installed these cars than that. Reprogramming the cvt is simple for them, it's just a software upgrade. Now I'm finding out that the torque converter is failing (locking up) on thousands of cars. I feel Nissan should be held accountable for these repairs.

In August of 2017 my 2014 Nissan Altima's torque converter fragmented pieces of itself into my transmission fluid. This resulted in my car tugging and shuddering while driving under speeds of 30 mph including slowing down and accelerating. At a point my vehicle turned off while in drive and I took my vehicle back to the selma Nissan dealership. After a week of no finding of the issue it was brought to fresno lithia with the same result of no finding of the issue. A year later the vehicle produced the same problems and again the vehicle shut off while in drive and I immediately took the vehicle back to the fresno lithia dealership for a full inspection again. Upon further identification they noted that this has become a common problem with 2013 & 2014 Nissan Altimas as the torque converter will become stuck and while shifting and force the vehicle to stall and shut off. This is a common problem and yet I had to pay for a new transmission for my vehicle. I've called Nissan corporate at (615) 725-7154 and they informed me they do not conduct recalls. I see that if this transmission problem is so common why is it not on a recall and I should not have to pay for this fix on my 4 year old car. I'm a marine veteran with a 2 month old baby and $3500 for a transmission is not cheap for me in my position. I do have documentation from 3 dealerships noting I brough in my vehicle with the occurring problem dating back a year ago. I also have printed documentation of my new transmission for my vehicle and positive test result of my vehicle performing 4 out of 10 times of vehicle shuddering and turning off. This problem seems to be swept under the rug by Nissan as they might fear a recall of their vehicles.

The contact owns a 2014 Nissan Altima. The contact stated that the vehicle experienced hesitation without warning. Hamilton Nissan (1929 dual hwy, hagerstown, MD) diagnosed that the torque converter clutch seized and the transmission needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 84,000.

Vehicle was at dealer for oil change, service advised that "recall" campaign pc4900 reprogram transmission control module was performed. After driving the car for 6 days and 447 miles, it died while sitting completely still, idling in traffic (in "drive"). The vehicle shuddered so violently when it died, I thought that I had been rear-ended. The vehicle would restart but died immediately upon any attempt to shift into reverse or drive. Had it towed back to the dealer, diagnosis was torque converter failure. Total transmission replacement. Never had any mechanical issues with this car until now.

Vehicle is a 2014 Nissan Altima 4 cylinder motor. It recently had the transmission recall, disguised as a "campaign" performed. It was a software update. Since then, the car upshifts while decelerating, causing the engine to stumble & almost stall. It is similar to the torque converter locking up & affecting the drivetrain. If the engine stalled, driver would lose control of the vehicle & might crash the car. The car is in motion when it happens on a road where speeds are about 50 mph, which is about the speed we were driving when it happened. It has happened while driving straight or in mild turns.

2014 Nissan Altima s, 74,000 miles. I shifted the car from park to reverse to back out of parking space, the car shuddered and died. I am very fortunate that I wasn't hit by oncoming traffic as the car would not move. I had my daughter steer the car while I pushed it out of the way of traffic. I tried several more times to put the car in gear, it would run for a few seconds and die. There were no previous performance problems and no engine warning lights to indicate a problem. I had the car towed to a Nissan dealer. It was diagnosed with "torque converter failure/ need to replace cvt unit/ found no dtc's stored/found not tranny leaks/ printed off tranny "a" and "b" counts just in case" I have read other reports of these Altima's completely failing in rush hour traffic because of Nissan's defective transmission. My family was lucky. The situation could have ended very badly if this defective car had died in traffic, causing me or an innocent serious harm. Now, my family is facing an almost $5000 dollar repair on a three year old car that I don't trust anymore.

Making a left turn into shopping center and car started jerking , two days later going through a 25mph school zone and car started jerking ,took car into dealer and I was told that they replaced the transmission when I picked car up, on the way home whenever I would slow down to stop the car would make a whining noise and it would come to a hard stop, took car back to dealer and was told that it was normal . It was not dointhat before they changed the transmission Nissan consumer affairs sent a specialist out to check the car out he drove the car and he felt the issue , I was told that it was the torque converter locking up and that was normal, took car to another dealer for a second opinion and he drove the car and experience the issue again I was told that it was the torque converter locking up , it makes this jerking at different speed levels and the whining and hard stopping is constant the second dealer told me that I may have a software problem because the computer that they hooked up to the car shows no problems I am still experiencing the problem . Something needs to be done to correct this issue . It was not making the whining noise and making the hard stops where it makes the car move. I am still dealing with these issues.

While attempting to make a turn at a stop light, vehicle began to shake and slow down. It felt as if it was going to lose power. I had to push the accelerator harder than expected as there was another vehicle bearing down on me in oncoming traffic. This is a new vehicle. I brought it to the dealer and it appears to be a torque converter issue. The shaking is not an issue in itself, however it could lead to accidents if someone is making a turn and needs to get out of oncoming traffic as the transmission does not seem to respond as expected.