Automatic Transmission Cooler problems of the 2008 Nissan Rogue

The transmission on my 2008 Nissan Rogue is failing due to overheating. The overheating causes the transmission to fail and the vehicle loses power. I've been told that even if I replace the transmission, at $4000, the new one will likely fail as well. I'm told that the transmission is overheating because the cooling fan is not powerful enough. I'm also being told that this is a known issue with Nissan but they will not provide a cheaper fix in order to profit from Nissan owners getting stuck with a bill for $4000 for a new transmission. $4000 is quote from aamco transmission replacement for 2008 Nissan Rogue. Please provide more economic solution.

I live in the denver area, and my daughter is in college in utah. She complained for the last several months while in school that the car would sporadically just stop accelerating. She also said she had not changed the oil in a while, so I thought that's what her problem was. She then changed the oil, and continued telling me that it would just stop accelerating, and she said she was scared to drive it, because she felt she would get into an accident. Her school is in south central utah, and the closest Nissan service center was 100 + miles away, so I recommended she take it to the local mechanic, who filled it with transmission fliud. I then told her to take it to the nearest transmission shop, (provo, 100 + miles away), and he told us about the Nissan cvt transmission issues, and it would be $3900 to replace. The car now has 123,900 miles on it. After researching, and finding out that Nissan extended the warranty to 120,000 miles, which I knew that the car was over the warranty, but decided to have it towed to ken garff Nissan, nearby. The verdict, replace the cvt transmission at my expense, for $4600. I told the technician that what's the use of paying that much money, and then have the same problem happen again. He explained that now they also install a cvt cooling unit, which is suppose to fix the problems. I let him know that that's what Nissan should have originally done, recall the transmission, and install the cooling unit. I immediately called Nissan consumer affairs, and filed a complaint. They called the next day, (today), and said they could not do anything, and closed the case! the investigator said that this only happened in the rouges from 2003 through 2010. I let him know that that was not true, and is happening to several other models with the cvt transmission, up to 2015! he said there was nothing they could do but to put me in a new vehicle!.

After 5 hours of operation, while climing upgrade near charlotte nc, vehicle slipped out of gear and lost power. This repeated over a series of inclines for the next 50 miles and nearly resulted in several rear end accidents. During these incidents,the vehicle both lost power and the cruise control unexpectedly shut off. Local Nissan dealer confirmed it was due to a known heat issue with cvt transmissions, and an advisory was out to inspect and advise when reported. Nissan instructed an additional cooling appliance be added to keep the fluid cool so operation was normal. Issue is this should be a recall based on assumption that any vehicle will drive at highway speeds for several hours and eventually have to encounter relativly easy upgrades on our highways. Transmission failure under these circumstances is inevitable, and so will be potentially fatal or at least injury inducing incidents.

Vehicle has sudden loss of power due to overheating of transmission fluid causing vehicle to go into a limp mode reducing speed to approximately 40-50 mph. Happens when driving at highway speeds for 2 or more hours. Once coming to a stop, the vehicle will not accelerate at all. . . Completely powerless. Have had to a Nissan dealer 4 times receiving nothing more than a band-aid temporary repair by draining some of the trans fluid rather than installing a better transmission cooling system. Nissan has know about hundreds of cases over the course of 7 years and to date has no credible repair, thus totally ignoring consumers safety. T6here are tens of reviews regarding this by concerned consumers. This is a fatality( if not already) waiting to happen.