2012 Nissan Murano S AWD. Transmission went out at ~110k in 2023. Unsurprising/expected given the V6, AWD, CVT, and mileage.
We paid a local transmission shop to put in a brand new unit (direct from the nissan dealer).
~3k miles after this it started to 'slip'. I'm not sure that's the right term since it's a CVT and they don't slip in the traditional sense, but occasionally when starting from a stop (like at a stoplight), it would accelerate really, really slowly, and then would seem to 'catch' and take off and would behave normally.
We took it back, the shop took it to nissan, the transmission was deemed faulty and it was replaced with another brand-new unit.
The warranty on the transmission was 12 months and 12,000 miles.
It's now been ~15 months and 10k miles, and it's starting to do the exact same thing (occasional, intermittent incredibly slow acceleration from a stop). 95% of the time it's fine, but once every 1-3 days it'll do the above at a stoplight.
No check engine light, no warning lights.
Is there anything that could cause this other than (another) faulty transmission? I'm not interested in shelling out another $6k to maybe fix this, so if that's what it will take I'm just going to dump it as a mechanic's special.
Is it worth taking it somewhere else to have a second opinion? What should I ask them to do/check?
We paid a local transmission shop to put in a brand new unit (direct from the nissan dealer).
~3k miles after this it started to 'slip'. I'm not sure that's the right term since it's a CVT and they don't slip in the traditional sense, but occasionally when starting from a stop (like at a stoplight), it would accelerate really, really slowly, and then would seem to 'catch' and take off and would behave normally.
We took it back, the shop took it to nissan, the transmission was deemed faulty and it was replaced with another brand-new unit.
The warranty on the transmission was 12 months and 12,000 miles.
It's now been ~15 months and 10k miles, and it's starting to do the exact same thing (occasional, intermittent incredibly slow acceleration from a stop). 95% of the time it's fine, but once every 1-3 days it'll do the above at a stoplight.
No check engine light, no warning lights.
Is there anything that could cause this other than (another) faulty transmission? I'm not interested in shelling out another $6k to maybe fix this, so if that's what it will take I'm just going to dump it as a mechanic's special.
Is it worth taking it somewhere else to have a second opinion? What should I ask them to do/check?
