Transmission Fluid Leaking Problems of Nissan Maxima

Power steering fluid leaks completely out and have to refill every two weeks. I was driving down the parkway and my rpm kept jumping slightly. Got off my exit to my university and stopped at a light, then it wouldn't move. After letting it sit for a while I could get it to move across a parking lot, but it shook the whole time and wouldn't go over 1200 rpm. It eventually went completely out and now it doesn't move at all. It is also smoking upon starting it now.

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On city street at red light vehicle would not pull off from red light. Big cloud of smoke from hood and would not move forward or backwards. In the course of turning at light became stuck in intersection. Towed to dealer and blown cvt hose. Car has only 58k miles and just months outside of warranty. Dealer asking $650 and said it admitted it could happen again in 50k. Tow bill and rental car cost charged to owner. Cvt are noted as problematic but manufacturer only replacing years 2010 and earlier, but online search reveals same or more issues with years 2011 and later. Discovered parts cost to be $150 and not sure of units of cvt fluid since it didn't all leak out. Unethical service again stated I'd run over some article like a tire to cause this issue. Went onsite and went over vehicle with dealer mechanic and no underneath scratches and vehicle has skid pan to prevent such occurrences. Received call from Nissan consumer complaints advising there was nothing they could/would do.

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Beginning of this week, March 30, 2009, my 2004 Nissan Maxima had a situation when I began to drive (my car is an automatic), the transmission appeared to be struggling to reach 2nd gear. Although I only work 1. 8 miles from my home, I could feel the "difference" in the transmission from any other time. I have 63,000 miles on my car and for a five year old car, that is very low. I maintain the vehicle accordingly and about 8 months ago, I had the transmission fluid flushed, etc. The second day (today), I started up the car, put it in drive and quickly noticed it was going to strain itself into 2nd gear. Once it did, there was a hard jerk in getting there. I immediately drove the car to my home, parked it and made an appointment for it to be checked out tomorrow morning. Then I went online to search for any Nissan 2004 transmission problems such as mine and found a lot of web-sites that people have described the exact happenings that occurred to my vehicle. This does not seem to be an isolated incident. Something is seriously defective with at least the 2004 transmissions. Many people's comments always stated that there's occurred right after 60,000 miles. My car has not been driven hard and is well maintained. I read also about 2 other items that occurred to my vehicle. One is the drivers power window will not close up and stay closed when the button is pushed. I discovered a way to get the window closed by holding the button in the up position, turn off the car and open the door, while keeping your finger on the power up button. Secondly, people wrote about a ac refrigerant hose having leaks and needing to be replaced by several other owners. Mine also had this problem some time back. The most important issue to me is this transmission failing right after 60,000 miles. It mentions that when they put it on a machine to test, it shows nothing is wrong, which obviously it is. Nissan has told people they don't know exactly what the problem is either.

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I noticed my 2004 Maxima transmission slipping from 1st to 2nd gear and violently jerking I took my car to the dealer and they told me my motor mounts were broken I changed them($600) and the problem was not solved I took it back and they told me I was down a quart of transmission fluid but my transmission is not leaking anywhere so I made them supposedly fill it up I finally took my car to a transmission specialist and found that I have a defective transmission valve body after doing more research I found that this is a very common problem with the 04-06 Nissan Maximas, the specialist told me he gets them all the time, im sure if I kept going back to the dealer they would tell me I need a new $4500 transmission knowing that there valve bodies are defective this has to stop Nissan is taking people on a run around with this issue I think the part should be recalled because it makes the car unsafe (example) when you step on the gas to take off the car feels like it stays in first gear to a certain point then slams into second gear while the car is in motion causing the car to launch forward this almost caused property damage in my case, to make it worse the dealers are telling people other things are wrong with there car instead of dealing with the issue and recalling the problem.