I recently bought a brand new Nissan Altima 2007 2.5S. Soon after I bought it, I started to hear engine rattle at low speeds and during startup. I took the car in and I was told by the Nissan service department that it is a very common issue with Altima ’07 and ’08. They told me that they would fix it and allegedly did fix it but did they really???
Few days back, I started hearing the rattle again, the engine was too loud in the mornings during startup and I don’t think this is normal for a brand new car. I was thinking about taking the car back to the dealership but then thought I would wait until the oil change is due. But this morning, things changed, I received a mail from Nissan.
It talked about the same exact issue that I am having with my car. The stupid thing was, it said that we already did inform you about this before. No Sir! I was never informed, your service specialist said it was fixed the first time I took my car in and it wasn’t really fixed.
If you have a Nissan Altmia 2007-08 2.5SL, contact your dealer and find out when you can go to get the noise fixed. They obviously mention in the mail that only some drivers experienced it, yeah right. There won’t be this kind of an effort if only handful experienced this problem.
Nissan will install an exhaust stay bracket in your vehicle free of charge which would fix the rattle noise around the exhaust manifold heat shield. This noise supposedly doesn’t affect the engine….
I have a CVT tranmission in my 2007 altima. I just had the entire tranmission replaced at no cost to me. I had all the rattling noises…then it started jumping a little around 60 miles an hour…and when I pressed the gas. Finally last week my transmission completely failed. Nissan took care of everything including the rental car. I do like my altima…and now it drives better than it ever has. They verified the warranty on those has been extented to 120,000 miles or 10 years.
I have an 2005 Maxima and I am hearing a clicking which I had diagnosed at my mechanic (not nissan) and he had the exact same car 2006 model that was knocking VERY loudly and said this is your future unless you can get nissan to fix it some how! THey should stand behind their work so me and my lawyer are going for it! I have already had the transmission rebuilt in this car too, NISSAN is on my shit list on the real!!!! Now from reading all this, Im scared that if Nissan does decide to stand behind their product and fix it that they wont do it right!?
Nissan is a worst car . never in my life i will buy it. i am disposing of nissan 2004 altima , it gives the same rattling noise and the bloody delear says we do not know what it is. Why the hell is he thier. If you are in east cost and in wilmington do not go to Nissan Sharidan. It sucks.
I had this problem once but recently upgraded to a newer nissan model which has worked flawlessly, better than nay previous car I have owned.