Carrier/rack problems of the 2007 Nissan Pathfinder

I was driving down the highway with my kids when the vehicle started to overheat and when I pulled over the vehicle started to smoke and shut down. The vehicle was then towed to my house. I had a family mechanic look at the vehicle and was told the radiator cracked. I ordered a radiator and it was put it. Then found out that water had gotten into the transmission fluid. Went and bought the transmission fluid j specifically for Nissan and was going to flush the transmission fluid and add more it was then that the transmission started slipping and white smoke was coming out of the exhaust. Where I was told the head gasket is cracked. I am still making payments on this car and have no vehicle to drive to work or school.

It started when my Pathfinder would make shuddering noises and vibrate heavily while accelerating. I later found out that my radiator had cracked and caused coolant to leak into the transmission. I had the radiator replaced and the transmission flushed. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. After driving my car for a couple of weeks it completely lost power while I was driving on city streets and I was left stranded on a really hot day with dogs in the car. Apparently once the leaking radiator fluid mixed with the transmission fluid this lethal combination killed the valves, seals and torque converter -- rendering my entire transmission useless. No amount of flushing the transmission was going to save it. The total repair cost over $6000. 00 and Nissan is well aware of this issue in their cars yet have not done the right thing and issued a recall.

Towed my car to the local shop and found out that the radiator has an internal crack and leaked into the transmission. Burned out the tcm and now I am going to have to pay more than $5000 to get it fixed. Called Nissan and was told I needed to replace the radiator and transmission. Not happy about this at all.

The vehicle had transmission troubles and was taken into a repair facility. There is a crack in the radiator which has caused antifreeze to get into the transmission. The transmission needs to be replaced as well as the radiator. Car stutters and jumps and is very scary to drive. Will cost over $4500 to repair.

I was driving back home from my daughters doctors appointment. It was during rush hour traffic time. As I was trying to accelerate I felt a jerk on the card and the o/d light start flashing. I was almost home so I kept driving to make it home. Did not want to b stranded in the road with my daughter. As I pushed on the gas it did not want to accelerate an more, all the lights started flashing and we pretty much strolled into the nearest gas station. I put it in park and waited a moment and tried to see if it would cut back on, but it didn't. I had my vehicle towed to th mechanic shop and he said it smelled like radiator fluid. After doing diagnostic he said problem was to due to a crack that leaked raidiator fluid into transmission. So now I have to replace my transmission and radiatior and computer. Cost would be over $5,000.

Checked the transmission fluid and it was white milky. Had it checked its a problem with the transmission cooler inside the radiator cracking and letting antifreeze get into transmission and it destroys it and it's up to $5000 to fix and lots of lost time and Nissan isn't doing a thing about it. And there are numerous people on the internet with same problem. Nissan should fix this at no cost to the owner !!!!!!!!.

This Pathfinder is experiencing a failure with the transmission oil cooler / radiator assembly and is within the 10 year period specified by the extended warranty but is beyond the 100,000 mile limit. Due to the nature of this defect, the severity of this failure, the repetitive nature of the failures and the limited or missing failure warning signs, I believe that an investigation is warranted. Extending a warranty for a short period of time a limited mileage that most consumers breeze through in a few years in order to avoid a recall is not good for repeat business or safety. Nissan settled a class action lawsuit where it identified the defective radiator, but capped the warranty at 10 years/100,000 miles. Whether or not the incident happened at 10,000 miles, or 200,000 miles, it is still a manufacture defect, not caused by the consumer. Simply extending the warranty coverage for the radiator without warning consumers of the consequences to the transmission only makes sense to me if Nissan is looking to cut their losses. Why didn't Nissan warn consumers that the transmission could fail very quickly as a result of a cracked cooler tube? how many consumers must needlessly suffer transmission failures in busy intersections and on busy, congested highways before Nissan does the ethical thing and issues a safety recall? this defect need not be left on the consumer's shoulders, and could very easilly cause safety issues for the owner.

The automatic transmission in the vehicle began to shift roughly. It was determined through the Nissan dealership that the radiator had a crack in in, and radiator fluid was leaking into the transmission fluid. It is a design flaw.