general problems of the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder - part 2

1st it was my transmission, which was rebuilt due to a lawsuit. Then it was the engine, used engine with 50,000 was put in and I only had 76,000 on the original one. Then both cooling fans had to be replace. . . . $6000 later and now the damn visors!! drivers side broken, won't stay up unless I use a bungie cord. It's a hazard having it flapping in front of driver and my passenger side is failing. Nissan do something about this!! I've put enough $$$ into this car, it's like my money pit!! never ever again will I buy or suggest a Nissan to anyone. Can't wait to get rid of this car!!.

The driver's side sun visor has an inner plastic piece broken which makes the sun visor randomly fall, blocking my view when driving. This is a common issue on many 2014 Pathfinders that can be fixed by making the parts (visor) better, or by selling a replacement part for the plastic piece that easily breaks. Instead, the manufacturer only sells as a replacement part, the exact same visor that is likely to break again. A second issue on this car is the driver's side door handle inside and outside the door. I find myself often trapped inside the car or outside the car due to this door handle malfunction. This could easily become a life/death safety issue if ever I was in an accident and was trapped inside the car. This is another common defect on this car caused by a cheap plastic piece breaking. Another problem besides being trapped in the car is that sometimes the door opens while driving. These safety issues common in the 2014 Nissan Pathfinder should be corrected immediately with a safety recall.

The door handle to the passenger side snapped and the door does not open from the inside now.

The driver's side sun visor no longer stays in the �up� position and �opens� whenever I am driving, especially if I hit a bump. The visor suddenly drops and hangs down, directly impairing my ability to see the road. Whenever I try to put the visor back up to its �up� position it makes a loud creaking noise.

A plastic piece in my visors is broken. This seems to be a huge complaint from other Nissan Pathfinder owners as well. Visors hang down in the way of vision while driving.

2014 n Pathfinder 83,000 miles- I parked my car when I restarted it 10 min later, white smoke started coming from my exhaust. So much smoke that I was afraid to drive it. I had the car towed to my mechanic. He said that it's defiantly the engine (possible piston ring or stuck valves) he says he's heard of others with the same problem. Googled and see many others with the same problem. Dealer says I'm 8,000 miles out of my extended warranty. Hard to believe this problem seems so wide spread and isn't a recall.

We were traveling down the highway at approximately 1pm when the sunroof exploded. This is the second time the sunroof glass exploded. It exploded before on 11/29/18. The weather was sunny and clear with a temp of about 45 degrees. The sun shield was open but the sunroof was closed. We hadn't passed an overpass and when the we cleaned up the glass we didn't find anything that might have impacted the glass of the sunroof. We purchased the car used from a dealership in April 2018.

Sun roof blew up while driving.

The sun visors on our 2014 Nissan Pathfinder started to droop down and eventually became so loose that they did not stay up at all and are dangling all the way down. This is not only annoying but also a safety hazard because the driver side is blocking part of the view. The loose flapping panel also distracts the driver immensely.

While driving at a speed of 75mp on the highway at approximately 10:30 am the sunroof exploded. The sun shade was open but the sunroof was closed during the explosion. The weather sunny and clear with a temp of about 40 degrees. I hadn't passed a semi or truck or an overpass. I maintained our speed until I was able to pull over and assess the damage. Passenger in the back seat received minor cuts on his leg. The car was purchased used from dealership in April 2018. It had 34,000 miles on it at the time of purchase. I had a "crash protector" placed over the sunroof by safelite glass repair until replacement part is available.

I was driving my vehicle on 11/6/2018 and it was riding funny so I took it into my dealership, the transmission was going my cars trans went out a total of 3 times of the dealership fixing it. They stated that's a number one problem in these vehicles.

My vehicle has a power lift gate. There is an internal hinge that connects the strut/arm to the liftgate. This is an internal piece. This 'hinge' somehow rusted and snapped. I believe it's called the 'strut mount'. Therefore the strut/arm is no longer connected to the liftgate. The entire power liftgate system is now inoperable. I took it to the dealer and they told me the entire power liftgate system has to be replaced at a cost of almost $2,000. 00. I called Nissan consumer affairs to ask for assistance and log a case. The case # is 33162218. Nissan declined assistance. I found a recall on the 2014-2016 Nissan rogue models with the same issue. I brought this up to Nissan consumer affairs and it did not change their position. My argument 1) this is an internal part and should never have rusted. 2) why does this 1 part require the entire powerlift gate be replaced? when this first happened, I was opening the liftgate (using the power feature), it got about 1/2 up, stopped, then slammed back down. However, it did not close all the way because the strut that broke from the hinge was left extended, causing the liftgate to not be closed. This was actually dangerous because my arm could have been trapped when the liftgate closed unexpectedly. I found similar complaints online but no official recalls.

Both sunvisors in my vehicle are being held up with bungy cords because they just fall down into your face while driving. According to the dealership this is due to the mechanism that supports the sunvisors. In order to have repaired new sunvisors have to be installed which cost 485. 00 with labor. There is no way to keep the sun out of your eyes while driving and if you do not tie them up with something they just fall forward into your face. I was told by the dealership this is a common problem in my make and model and eventually there will be a recall. After talking with Nissan headquarters today 08 12 20 there is no recall yet and to contact you.

Sept 2018 front passenger door handle broke; unable to open door from the inside. March 2016 front driver side door handle broke; was unable to open door from the inside.

I was in motion on the highway when I moved the drivers side sunvisor. A loud pop happened and the visor broke. It would not return to its stationary place and hung in front of my field of view. It dangles interfering with driving.

Sun visor on passenger side fell down while driving.

The sun visors have always not fully returned to the position when closed like all others do. However, without warning the driver's sun visor broke during vehicle operation on an interstate. Impeding the vision of the driver, during operation, is exceedingly dangerous. I had to drive with one hand holding the visor in place.

The driver side visor broke. At time of purchase, both visors made a loud clicking sound when they were pulled down or pushed up. The plastic attached to the hinge broke. After looking up this issue online, it appears that several thousand people had similar issues with their Nissan Pathfinders. The broken plastic prevents the visor from being pushed all of the way up, thus causing the driver's vision being partially blocked.

Vehicles shakes and shudders when driving at low speeds, also both interior door handles broke. Car feels like your driving on the rough lines on the highway they use to wake you up.

The sun visors in the Pathfinders have a plastic hinge attachment that fails regularly in several years of the vehicle. While the sun visor may not be safety critical equipment, the mode of failure makes it unsafe. When it fails, you are unable return it to normal position and it hangs fully down (at least in my case) obstructing the driver's visibility. When it failed for me, my vehicle was in motion on a highway, with very heavy traffic. I have fixed the failed visor so can't provide a picture.

I have owned my Pathfinder for about 6 months. When I purchased the vehicle both visors were sagging and didn't fully retract into place. Over the last month the drivers side visor is now to the point where it hangs halfway down all of the time. I researched online and have found this problem to be what I consider an epidemic. Not only are the visors manufactured horribly but now cause a hazard when I am driving because I continuously hit my head on the visor. Nissan needs to seriously consider recalling all visors that are designed as such. I just spent almost $200 to fix one visor for what I believe is a manufacturing defect. Not happy! I do not have a picture to send in today because I have already fixed the visor because it was a hazard to drive.

On February 27, 2018 I was driving approximately 65 mph along a highway. Suddenly I heard what sounded like a gunshot going off and then glass fell into my car, some on me from the sunroof. The entire sunroof exploded. I have taken pictures because the small amount of glass around the outside edges was pushed outwards like an explosion from pressure of some sort. After calling my local Nissan dealership I was told this is not a Nissan problem and not covered because my warranty mileage and time has expired. This is a Nissan problem because glass should not explode for no apparent reason. Thank goodness I did not lose control of the vehicle due to the shock of the situation.

Drivers side door handle broke.

Piston attachment to door on automatic trunk opener broke. Unable to hold liftgate open.

Sun visors are an issue for so many Nissan Pathfinder owners! they need to be recalled. Sun visors do not stay up. They fall while driving when you possibly get them to stay. When they won't stay up they stay down and myself and passengers are constantly hitting our heads on them. It obstructs my view while driving even when my seat is all the way down.

Driver side sun visor broken and visor hangs in full view of driver - no way to keep it up. Major safety hazard.

When I turn the heater off, I keep hearing a knock noise coming out of the heater.

Both sunvisors left hand and right hand visor started clicking when moving it and then it started popping and not going back up.

The driver and passenger sun visors are not staying up and at this time in the up position the driver visor is 4 inches off the ceiling and hanging in the field of vision while driving, and the passenger visor is about 3 inches of the ceiling. This is happening while parked or driving.

Bought the vehicle used at about 60,000 miles. Around 64,000 miles, both sun visors fell to the down position and will no longer stay folded up. Impairs vision of driver. This was not related to an accident or any type of damage to the vehicle.

The driver sun visor flapped back and forth. It can't stay up and down properly. It's a safety hazard because it come down in front of me when I tried to use it therefore I have to hold up with one hand while my other hand is on the steering wheel. I only use 6 times during the 3 years that I have been driving it and I am the first owner. It started about 2 months ago but it became worst now.

Driver side sun visor never worked properly. Now the driver side visor broke and is hanging, it won't stay up causing lack of vision to the driver and hazard to all passengers.

My vehicle shifts into od on its own. The dealership has done a soft reassembly an replaced the guts of the transmission and the issue is still occuring. This vehicle also previously needed to be towed due to it not accelerating after reaching 60mph on a major highway. It slowed down on its own and would not accelerate pass 20 mph.

Driver and passenger sun visors fell down and won't stay up. Obstructing view while driving.

The issue is the plastic inside the sun visors breaks easily. I have already had to replace them once, and now they're both broken again. When the internal plastic components break, the visor hangs down and restricts your vision as you're driving. You are unable to position the visor to block the sun as well, which presents another safety issue. I have had to resort to connecting two dog collars together to keep the visors in an up position rather than spend $200-300 to replace them. Nissan refuses to replace the visor since its no longer under warranty. The first replacement was under warranty, but they only cover warranty work for one year. This occurred about 18 months after the replacement. This is an ongoing problem with this vehicle. I will include a video link from a Nissan dealership where the workers are visibly frustrated with the issue. Https://m. Youtube. Com/watch?v=-ojqzbhnu2e the door handles are an issue I have personally experienced as well. Both passenger side door handles internal plastic components have broken off. This presents an egress hazard, especially if the vehicle has been disabled and you're unable to roll down the window. Rolling down the window and opening the door from the outside is your only option to egress the vehicle. I will include pictures and if you would like I can pop the panel off of the passenger doors and send in photos of the broken internal pieces. I have attached the invoice from the first replacement which occurred at just 14,714 miles, about 7 months after the vehicle was purchased.