CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2013 has a growing number of transmission complaints at low mileage. The issue is part of a class-action lawsuit that says the transmissions shake violently during acceleration between 15mph and 30mph.
3.3
definitely annoying
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
40,347 miles
About These NHTSA Complaints:
This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
Driving on an interstate my wipers stopped operating because of heavy snow. They were repaired at a Nissan dealership. I had to drive in the shoulder so I could follow the white line. Again on a city street in heavy snow my wipers stopped working and were repaired at a Nissan dealership. Today, again my wipers stopped working while driving in heavy snow on a city street. None of the times were from snow from the top of my vehicle. I had cleared that off before driving.
The sunvisors are cheaply made and break. Therefore they become dangerous. I have looked into replacing and was given a code of $200 a piece. This should be a recall because of safety issues.
Stationary. Inside door handles would not open the doors. Both front seat doors failed. Dangerous because you could not get out of the car. This also happened on one of my sisters 2013 Pathfinders passenger side front door.
We purchased the car used in August of 2018. I did notice that the driver and passenger sun visors were hanging low. And that they didn't fully hold up when used. I contacted Nissan North America and they said it wasn't a warranty covered item. I tried reaching out to the dealer that sold us the vehicle and still no luck! it eventually broke all the way and the driver side visor cannot be used at all and is being held up by a bungee cord!! I cannot use this visor while driving and it is a hazard!! I believe this is an issue to bring to recall. There is a video on youtube stating a dealer had to replace over 50 visors on their lot!! search it. My complaint isn't the first one! this is a safety issue/hazard/concern for all involved.
Inside driver door handle broken, not allowing access to exit vehicle without someone opening the door from the outside or having the window down. Seems to be a common problem but Nissan refuses to address. The vehicle was parked when the door could not be opened.
The car has been stalling on us 4X. You drive the car and car only goes up to 20-30 mph and would not pick up speed. Brought to the Nissan service center X 3 and about to go for the 4th time. Nissan service cannot find anything wrong with the car in time of writing. It did not have any engine lights or warnings. Vehicle has currently have 52983 miles. The first two events were in a highway driving and the recent two are in a local road. All happened in dry and warm conditions.
The sun visors have a defect known by Nissan, but they have not issued a recall to correct it yet. Ours started by making a loud "clicking" noise, before losing the capability to stay either up or down. They hang down. We have slammed our foreheads into the rock hard visor edges when simply getting into the car or if there is a quick stop. We have had men, women and teens bump heads into the visor simply leaning forward to change the radio station. If we were to be rear-ended or in an accident, it would could easily gash open our foreheads or give a concussion. This is a safety hazard and Nissan will not acknowledge it. The sagging visors diminish vision and are going to kill someone if it is not addressed. This issue has been a known problem by Nissan, the service departments are aware of it, but Nissan will not offer anything other than removing the visor or having the consumer pay $160 for each visor to correct.
Interior driver side door handle failed to open. Had it repaired in 2015. Interior door handle passenger side failed to open starting.8/15/2018. In order to get out of vehicle you must roll down the window. Huge safety concern.
Driver side interior door handle hardware failed - disconnecting the door handle and the door cable and entrapping the occupant. Door can only be opened from the outside. Effectively this means that the car must maintain electrical power sufficient to rolls down the window in order to reach through and access a serviceable door handle. I have raised the issue to Nissan on 3 occasions but have not been taken seriously. Perhaps your will have more success - godspeed!
Driver side door handle and back passenger door handle both broke and the back door is used very little poor design and safety issue if needing to exit the vehicle in an emergency situation
The driver sun visor will not stay up any more. It just dangles. This is unsafe because it blocks the drivers vision. It doesn't matter if the vehicle is stationary or in motion. This started progressing back in March 2018 and now it just dangles.
Driving 35 mph on city street, no cars in immediate vicinity, no overpasses or bridges, no low-hanging trees and my sunroof exploded. It sounded like something large had been dropped on the roof of my car. I pulled to the side of the road and examined the roof of the car. There were no signs that anything had fallen onto the car as there was no paint damage or dents. However, the entire sunroof was shattered. Upon removing the broken glass from the area, it was clear there was nothing inside the sunroof area that had impacted the glass.
2013 Nissan Pathfinder driver's interior door handle / mechanism broke: Just drove home & parked in my garage...then, while trying to exit my car like usual, using the interior door handle from the driver side location, something in the door made a noise and handle stopped working and will not unlock nor open the door...!. in order to exit the car from the driver position, I have to roll down the window to reach the outside handle (which works) or have someone open the driver's door from outside...! this is dangerous, especially if there is an emergency and myself or someone else, cannot exit the car, in a safe amount of time..! it is clearly really poor engineering & quality on Nissan's part...and should be recalled due to overall safety issue....
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