CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2013 Nissan Altima has multiple problem trends including the CVT transmission, and now that this model is out of warranty, it earns our "Avoid Like The Plague" badge.
on a good day i get 15 mpg in the city and 19 on the highway driving in D and normally. If I put the car into sport within 10 minutes i have 5-8 mpg. I have never gotten over 25 mpg in this car and I when it comes to gas i get max 200 miles between fill ups. for the amount of money I spend on gas for this piece of sh*t 2.5 4 cylinder I would have been better off driving a car with a V8, I'd probably get better gas mileage driving that and better performance.
I've driven the '13 Nissan since it was new. I drive 80% thruway. Best mpg I ever got was 34 and that was when it was new. checked it today and I'm getting 29. I think the 38 mpg boast is BS. I got 27 with my '05 Mazda 6 at over 200,000 miles and it was a 6 and very snappy. I may trade this POS soon.
As of today on the last tank of gas, 424 miles of which more then half of which were at about 60 mph. My fuel light came on. Fuel light comes on when there is only about 2 - 2.5 gallons left in the 18 gallon tank. Much less then a 32 mpg average driving. Please check my math, but that is telling me I got only 26.5 - 27.3 mpg. And city is supposed to be 28? Sorry, not with the heater turned on at 67 degrees F.
I have also filed complaints with my dealer. They tested the car and supposedly in one instance able to get over 50 mpg. Let's see, 60 - 70 mph... no a/c. No heat. 280 miles later on the lease...
I don't think Nissan did all the tests that the EPA says that they have to do with reporting the A/C or Heater running like in real life.
I cannot wait to turn in this blasted leased vehicle.
Well the main selling point on this vehicle is that the dealer told me they were top in MPG's with 27 city and 38 highway. After a week or so I noticed that my mpg average is no more than 23.1. and that was with more than 50% travel on highways with no traffic(never went under the speed limit). I figured it had something to do with it being new and it would average out better later. So after 5,000 miles on the car I took it in and they told me that this is just because every driver averages different and i kept saying but i am not even getting close to the 27 city and i drive more highway. but they told me that everything is normal and they reset the average calculator. After a week it was worse than it was before and I was bringing it back for my many other problems i have with this car. They had my car for 4 days and finally told me that while they had it a check engine light came on saying that my air fuel ratio sensor was faulty. they replaced it and told me that was the fix. I have put about a tanks worth of mileage on it since and I am getting uner 23 mpg still. Either Something is VERY wrong with my car or Nissan is lying about the MPG's and yes I get that they are presented by the EPA but Nissan does the test first then sends it to the EPA and then the EPA tests later on. Either way the MPG's are wrong and I drive to try to get the best MPG's I don't even go over 2,000 RPM's unless going up hill. which brings me to the vibration fromt the trans. but thats in another complaint. Nissan needs to fix this problem becasue I chose this over the Honda Accord just for the MPG's.
- dynarider84,
Reston, VA, US
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on a good day i get 15 mpg in the city and 19 on the highway driving in D and normally. If I put the car into sport within 10 minutes i have 5-8 mpg. I have never gotten over 25 mpg in this car and I when it comes to gas i get max 200 miles between fill ups. for the amount of money I spend on gas for this piece of sh*t 2.5 4 cylinder I would have been better off driving a car with a V8, I'd probably get better gas mileage driving that and better performance.
- Alex S., Brooklyn, NY, US