Two problems related to transmission slip out of gear have been reported for the 2013 Nissan Sentra. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Nissan Sentra based on all problems reported for the 2013 Sentra.
The cvt transmission slips at various rpms and speeds. Traveling down a hill in the city with a steep grade the transmission will down shift and throw the rpms up to 5k where you can barely stop it. It slips to where basically it has no power to the wheels when driving on the interstate at 70mph at 3k rpms. It is like you threw it into neutral. There is no power to the wheels but engine speed shoots to 6k rpms and car speed decreases rapidly. This happens daily. Several times a day. I have taken the car to the dealer and been told it is the way the cvt transmission operates. That is a bunch of mess no transmission is meant to slip out of gear. My personal mechanic says he replaces 3-5 a week of the cvt transmissions with as little as 40-50k miles on them. These things are a death trap. My car has 107k on it and I've been complaining to the Nissan dealer since 20k. There should be a recall before there are serious injuries from the loss of power of surging. I have a 3 month old and this is my only car to get to work. Dealer wants 4. 5k and mechanic wants 3. 8k. I'm still making payments on the thing for another year.
Tl the contact owns a 2013 Nissan Sentra. While driving various speeds, the transmission slipped out of gear on more than one occasion. Cerritos Nissan in cerritos, California was made aware of the failure and scheduled a diagnostic test. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and provided the contact with case number: 30086087. The failure mileage was approximately 59,000.