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It is ridiculous that so many people with the same car have had the same exact problem and no investigation or action has been done by the NHTSA yet. As others have complained before, I have had moments where my car would have the vdc light go off and the car would begin to not accelerate over 2,000 rpms and would shake the car in a violent manner. I have had error codes P0101 and P0725 come up and dissapear through a period of six months. I have had to install a new oem mass air flow sensor to try to fix P0101 and it has returned on and off. The car has been acting much weaker than before and would have lots of hesitation whenever you would give it any gas. I have tried to search online to fix this but have come up with no definite answer. I just want my car to be reliable and that is what I expected when this car was purchased yet for it to start failing before the 100K mark, it shows how defective Nissan products are. I have put a thousand dollars trying to fix it only to find out nothing has changed.a recall needs to be done to fix this. Guaranteed last time I will buy a Nissan for sure.
The contact owns a 2011 Nissan Sentra. While driving over 40 mph, the vehicle shook and the vehicle dynamic control warning indicator illuminated. The contact coasted the vehicle to the side of the road and powered off the engine. The vehicle was restarted, but the failure recurred. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing of the failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 144,901.
At random times the vdc off indicator will turn on while driving. It can not be turned off and it is impossible for your car to go over 40 mph without constant jerking. You have to pull over, shut down and restart your car multiple times until the indicator doesn't come back on. Some times this is impossible and will never go away until car has been shut off for an hour or so. This can occur at any time when the car is in motion or even at a stop light, the indicator will come on and the jerking will begin. Very dangerous.
Car runs fine, all of a sudden, skips into the tracton control mode and vehicle slowes to around 10 mph. Car will not accelerate. Dash check engine light comes on. Car cannot continue. After stopping, shut engine off, car will run fine, then it happens again. Safety issue, traveling at 40 mph and have your engine shut down. No warning, just happens.
The contact owns a 2011 Nissan Sentra. The contact stated that while driving at 50 mph, the vehicle would not accelerate beyond 50 mph and made a loud abnormal noise. In addition, the contact mentioned that after various research, the failure was transmission related. The vehicle was towed to swope Toyota of elizabeth town, Kentucky where the cause of failure had not been determined. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 126,000.
- Campbellsville, KY, USA
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This is 2013 and my car still has this problem unresolved. This is an intermittent problem which has happened 4 times when the car is almost undriveable. Driving along on snowy roads (have noticed less significant issues other times such as going into 1st gear on its own twice and some small pulses here and there ) when the car will have a pulse or catch like you have quickly stepped on the brakes but no brake lights go on. The rpms increase from 1500 to 3000 and then the car stops briefly. Lower speed and still happens. Leaving from a stop is when it gets really scary. Any amount of gas pedal will cause the car to come to almost a complete stop with no brake lights. Almost rear ended a couple times. It keeps stopping you when you try to ever so gently give it some gas and eventually you can get it going. This behavior will continue until it wants to stop it. Turning car on and off sometimes help and sometimes doesn't. the second time this happened last 3 trips to work. Taken to dealer several times and no diagnostic codes have been recorded. First time adjusted sensor for vdc - must not have been adjusted from factory. Second time - no codes - say they adjusted some other sensors. Third and fourth times - if no diagnostic codes can't do anything. Contacted Nissan and waiting for a solution.
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- Visalia, CA, USA