CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2013 Nissan Quest is great in terms of low complaints, but it also has an abysmal crash test rating for one very common type of impact.
The IIHS' "small overlap" crash test rates the vehicle's ability to protect front seat passengers when the car is impacted across 1/4th of the front bumper.
This mimics hitting a pole, or an off-center crash into another car — more common in the real world than a full frontal head-on crash.
See our crash test page for the detailed results — As you can see from the IIHS' crash test video, the Nissan Quest does not protect intrusion into the passenger space & major injury to the front seat passengers is likely.
9.5
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- $4,250
- Average Mileage:
- 88,000 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 4 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- full transmission replacement (3 reports)
- place the transmission (1 reports)

transmission problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Follow up to first complaint. Nissan installed new CVT transmission October 2021 with 47k miles.
38 months later, at 83k miles, the CVT Transmission failed again.
Nissan consumer affairs did not seem surprised to get another phone call from me. The Nissan mechanics laughed at the fact that another CVT transmission failed, when they told me it would cost $8,400 to fix it AGAIN! They also let me know that Nissan is now giving their transmissions 36 months unlimited mileage warranty. Which is much better than the 12k mile 12 month warranty I received the first time we replaced the CVT Transmission.
Our family vehicle was just about paid off, and another catastrophic failure of the CVT transmission- No warning lights, no nothing to indicate any issue. Just complete random failure!
Do not buy a Nissan with a CVT transmission. They are garbage, and Nissan knows it. They have had at least 5 Class Action lawsuits filed for their inferior product, yet they continued to produce and sell vehicles with the CVT transmission.
- Justin C., Perry, IA, US