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2013 NISSAN ALTIMA — Complaint #1558273

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558273 (ODI reference 11196598) concerns a 2013 NISSAN ALTIMA and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 11, 2019. The vehicle had 58,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN ALTIMA cohort independently describe similar power train failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2013 NISSAN ALTIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2013 NISSAN ALTIMA
Component
POWER TRAIN
State
Tennessee
Mileage
58,000 mi

Complaint Description

I BOUGHT USED 2013 NISSAN ALTIMA CAR LIKE 2 YR 6 MONTHS. RECENT I FACED JERK CONDITION AND SUDDENLY WENT BREAK DOWN. GIVEN NISSAN SHOW ROOM, THEY CONFIRMED ITS TRANSMISSION ISSUE. IT'S NOT UNDER WARRANTY. NEED TO REPLACE. IT'S COST 5500. STILL HAVE A LOAN OF 8500. IF THERE ANY OPTIONS I CAN GO WITH I'M IN IDLE POSITION. IF I GO THROUGH LAW FIRM CAN I REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION FOR FREE ??

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558273
ODI Number 11196598
Date Filed April 15, 2019
Failure Date April 11, 2019
VIN 1N4AL3AP1DC

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.