41 problems related to engine and engine cooling have been reported for the 2017 Nissan Sentra. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2017 Nissan Sentra based on all problems reported for the 2017 Sentra.
When in a stationary position and off the car's automatic start will not start the car even when pressing on the brake petal and pressing the automatic start button. The car will cycle through the electronic warning on the dashboard to say - press the brake pedal and press the start button. The car will not start. Instead it will cycle through the radio coming on and the dash illuminating and then to off. The car will not start. It first occurred on 11/26/19, on two separate occasions. First occasion was attempting to leave our home garage. Second occasion was directly following occasion 1 as we attempted to leave the grocery store parking lot. The third was on 12/3/19, as we attempted to leave a metro parking garage. The vehicle will take 3-4 attempts and full cycles (5 minutes) to start the car.
Brake pedal sensor is defective, it interemittently detects the brake pedal being pressed and allows the car to start. Sometimes the brake pedal will go completely to the floor and sometimes it woll not activate at all. Sometimes the brake light will not go out and the car will not start. Sometimes if I pump the brake pedal the light will go out and the car will start. Sometimes if I have the door open and press the pedal the car will start=, sometimes there is no problem at all.
Transmission problems, some tomes it does not change gear. Some times in stationary the gear will not change, sometime wile in motion the car wil slow down. This happens , in the city and on the freeway.
Third time in the past month, push button start ups, engine is falling to start properly, engine is falling to start, smoothly. Vechile is in the stationary position.
Bought 2017 Nissan Sentra brand new from dealership and was very unfairly overcharged. I was charged $23,014. 53 for a car that was only worth $16,000 and has so many issues. Gas tank sometimes will stop at 200 miles and will not fill up, speedometer shoots up and down while driving, speed does not stay at a certain speed and slows down automatically. The engine jerks and sputters while driving on freeways and streets.
The contact owns a 2017 Nissan Sentra. The contact stated that the vehicle emitted an abnormal odor when the air conditioner was activated. As a result, the fumes caused her to almost fall asleep. Lynch Nissan of auburn (140 w creek pkwy, auburn, al) was contacted, but the failure could not be replicated. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 17,836.