2009 Nissan Altima

I DROVE MY CAR TO WORK ON 6/8/16. I CAME OUT TO MY CAR AFTER WORK AND MY CAR RECOGNIZED MY KEY TO LOCK/ UNLOCK IT. MY CAR WOULD NOT START AT ALL. MY STEERING WHEEL WAS LOCKED AND MY BREAK WAS TIGHT. IT WAS 90 DEGREES OUTSIDE AND MY CAR WAS SCORCHING HOT. I HAD NO ONE TO COME PICK ME UP FOR OVER AN HOUR. I GOOGLED "09 NISSAN ALTIMA" AND DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO FINISH TYPING IT, AND THE SECOND THING THAT PULLED UP WAS "09 NISSAN ALTIMA WON'T START." APPARENTLY THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THE STEERING LOCK IN THIS MODEL CAR AND IS NOT VERY SAFE. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CASES REPORTED ONLINE ABOUT THEM HAVING THIS SAME PROBLEM AND IT IS RIDICULOUS THAT NISSAN HAS NOT RECALLED THIS. I HAD A BEACH TRIP PLANNED TO LEAVE ON SATURDAY AND DRIVE MY CAR. IMAGINE HOW DANGEROUS THIS COULD HAVE BEEN HAD IT HAVE HAPPENED WHILE I WAS 500 MILES FROM HOME. STRANDED NO TELLING WHERE FOR HOW MANY HOURS WAITING ON A RIDE. IM ALREADY HAVING TO GET MY CAR TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP WHICH IS 55 MILES FROM WHERE I LIVE, NOT TO MENTION HAVING TO PAY FOR THAT BILL TOO. THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN INCONVENIENCE CONSIDERING IT IS THE ONLY VEHICLE I HAVE TO GET ME TO AND FROM WORK. I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE ISSUED AN EXTENDED WARRANTY AT SOME POINT IN TIME, BUT CAME TO FIND OUT IT HAS SINCE EXPIRED. WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED TO SINCE THIS EXPIRED? I THINK THIS SHOULD NEVER EXPIRED CONSIDERING IT IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT AND PRETTY MUCH UNAVOIDABLE AT SOME POINT IN TIME. I AM COMPLETELY DISGUSTED AT NISSAN THAT THEY HAVE NOT ADDRESSED THIS PROBLEM AND ISSUED A RECALL. I DIDN'T CAUSE THIS ISSUE, NOR DOES IT FALL UNDER THE NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF TYPICAL WEAR, TEAR, OR REPLACEMENT LIKE BATTERY, TIRES, ETC. HOW IS IT FAIR TO MAKE ME, NISSAN'S CONSUMER, PAY $1000+ DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING I DID NOT CAUSE? HOW CAN NISSAN KNOWING SELL A DEFECTED PART ON A CAR AND NOT TRY TO FIX IT?

NOT TOO LONG AGO MY CAR WOULD NOT START IN SEVERAL OCASSIONS I HAD MY CHILDREN WITH ME AGES 4 & 7 IN THE HEAT STRANDED BECAUSE MY CAR WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE MY KEY... I HAVE CONTACTED NISSAN CONSUMERS AFFAIRS AT ONE POINT THEIR WAS A RECALL BUT HAS EXPIRE IN 2015 ..NOW ITS JUNE 2016 AND MY CAR JUST STARTED DOING THIS I MADE 1YR WITH MY PRE OWNED CAR STILL MAKIN PAYMENTS NOT ONCE WAS I NOTIFIED ABOUT THIS RECALL..I JUST FELT SCARED AND THIS VEHICLE IS NOT SAFE FOR ME AND MY CHILDREN.IT COULD LEAVE US STRANDED ANY TIME AND ITS JUNE I CANNOT RISK IT IN THIS HEAT.... THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE... NISSAN DID STATE TO ME THAT THEIR WAS A RECALL AND THEIR SORRY BUT IT HAS EXPIRED AND IM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PART... THIS IS A MANUFACTURE ISSUE THEY KNEW THEIR VECHICLES HAD A SAFETY ISSUE WHEN THEY MADE THEM I BELIEVE THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS COSTLY MATTER... I AM A SINGLE MOM OF 2 STILL MAKING PAYMENTS ON A CAR THAT WONT UNLOCK AND READ MY KEY I NEED HELP PLEASE SOMEONE..... THIS PART IS $680+ LABOR=$1150!!!! I BELIEVE NISSAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ISSUE ...

MY CAR LEFT ME STRANDED BECAUSE THE STEERING WHEEL LOCK FAILURE. I WENT TO START THE CAR AND THE CAR WOULDN'T START AT ALL. NISSAN DOESN'T SEE THIS AS A SAFETY ISSUE WHICH IS RIDICULOUS BECAUSE THIS ISSUE IS CLEARLY UNSAFE BECAUSE IT STRANDS THE DRIVER. THE CAR BECOMES IMMOBILE AND DEAD. THE ONLY WAY TO FIX THIS IS TO PAY AT LEAVE $600 FOR THE PART PLUS ANOTHER $200-$300 FOR INSTALLATION. THE WORST PART IS THAT NISSAN WAS AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM WHEN THEY MANUFACTURED THE CAR BECAUSE IT IS IN THE OWNERS MANUAL WARNING THE DRIVER THAT THE CAR WILL LEAVE YOU STRANDED. HOW IS THIS NOT A RECALL?!

I PARKED MY CAR WHEN ARRIVING HOME ONE NIGHT, I NOTICED THE INTELLIGENT KEY LIGHT WAS LIT, BUT DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT. I CAME OUT TO MY CAR THE NEXT DAY TO TAKE IT TO WORK, I NOTICED THAT THE LIGHT WAS STILL LIT AND TRIED TO START MY CAR, BUT IT WOULDN'T START. SO I REPLACED THE BATTERIES IN MY INTELLIGENT KEY BECAUSE THE LIGHT WAS ON. I TRIED TO START MY CAR, BUT IT STILL DIDN'T START. I GOT THE CAR TOWED TO NISSAN AND LEARNED THAT IT WAS THE STEERING COLUMN LOCK THAT NEEDED TO BE REPLACED FOR OVER $800. MY CAR ONLY HAD 50,000 MILES ON IT AT THE TIME, SO I DID SOME RESEARCH AND LEARNED THAT THERE ARE MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS PART AND IT SHOULD BE RECALLED. I LEARNED THAT THERE WAS AN EXTENDED WARRENTY THROUGH NOVEMBER 2014, BUT I DIDN'T DRIVE THE VEHICLE ENOUGH TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM SOONER FOR IT TO BE COVERED BY THE WARRENTY.

PASSENGER OCCUPANT SENSOR HAS FAILED. THE AMBER PASSENGER OCCUPANT DASHBOARD LIGHT ALWAYS REMAINS ON. THIS MEANS THAT EVEN WITH THE SEAT OCCUPIED BY AN APPROPRIATE SIZED ADULT, THE LIGHT SAYS THE OCCUPANT IS NOT BEING 'SENSED'. ALSO, THE CONTROL PANEL ABOVE THE STEERING WHEEL HAS A RED FLASHING AIRBAG LIGHT. THE NISSAN DEALERSHIP SAYS THE ERROR CODE INDICATES A FAILURE IN THE PASSENGER SEAT OCCUPANT AIRBAG SENSOR. MY COST IS AT LEAST $2400 TO REPLACE THE PASSENGER SEAT. I AM UNABLE TO PAY THAT KIND OF MONEY. I AM HOPING FOR A NISSAN RECALL OR TECHNICAL BULLETIN ON THAT MAKE, MODEL AND YEAR. I SEE MANY OTHER YEARS OF THIS MAKE AND MODEL HAD THE ISSUE AND THE MANUFACTURER FIXED THEM AT NO COST. THAT IS WHAT I AM HOPING FOR. THIS CAR HAS NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENT. THIS JUST HAPPENED OUT OF THE BLUE.

MY 2009 NISSAN ALTIMA WOULD NOT START FOR ME TODAY WHILE I WAS ON MY WAY TO ATLANTA. I STOPPED FOR GAS AND ONCE I HOPPED ON MY CAR, IN AN UNKNOWN LOCATION, MY CAR WOULD NOT START. I HAVEN'T HAD ANY SIGNS OR ISSUE WITH MY CAR SINCE I BOUGHT IT 3 YEARS AGO. AFTER WAITING FOR HOURS IN A TOWN IN WHICH WAS VERY CREEPY I'VE FINALLY FOUND OUT IT WAS MY ESCL (ELECTRIC STEERING COLUMN LOCK). NOT ONLY DID I HAVE TO GET MY CAR TOWED WAY BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA, I ALSO ENDED UP PAYING AN ARM AND A LEG AT NISSAN!!! COME TO FIND OUT EVERYONE WITH A 2009 ALTIMA HAS HAD THIS PROBLEM IT SEEMS LIKE! THEY EXTENDED THE WARRANTY FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THAT ENDED A YEAR AGO! I GOT NOTHING IN THE MALL FROM NISSAN REGARDING THIS SO I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THE DEFECT! THIS HAS BEEN A LIABILITY FOR ME AND MY FAMILY BEING THAT I'VE SPENT OVER $1000 GETTING THIS DONE AS WELL AS TOWING FEES! NISSAN HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS DEFECT OR ELSE THEIR WILL BE THOUSANDS MORE THAN END UP STRANDED WHO KNOWS WHERE BECAUSE OF NISSANS DEFECTS! AND THEIR IRRESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR PRODUCT!!