NHTSA Complaint #10746488 — 2014 NISSAN VERSA

STARTED THE VERSA AFTER BEING PARKED FOR AT LEAST 30 MINUTES AND WAS EXITING A SHOPPING CENTER. EXIT REQUIRES DRIVING UP A SIGNIFICANT INCLINE TO ACCESS BUSY THREE LANE ROAD. AT THE CREST OF THE HILL, DURING PAUSE WAITING FOR ACCESS POINT TO ENTER TRAFFIC, VERSA WOULD NOT MOVE EVEN WITH EXCELLERATOR DEPRESSED. TRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND VERSA INSTEAD ROLLED BACKWARDS, GAINING MOMENTUM WHILE GOING DOWN HILL BACKWARDS. BRAKES FAILED, PRESSED ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR AND WOULD NOT STOP CAR UNTIL A CURB WAS HIT. LATER, EXITING THE SAME LOCATION AND CROSSED IN 2 LANES, THE VERSA RUNNING BUT THE TRANSMISSION WOULD NOT MOVE THE CAR. ZERO RPMS. CAR STOPPED DEAD IN ITS TRACKS AND WOULD NOT MOVE EVEN SHIFTING GEARS TRYING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO GET OUT OF THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO MOVE THE CAR, THE VERSA DIED. VERSA THEN WOULD NOT START AND ONLY MADE 'CLICKING NOISES'. FIVE PEOPLE IN THE CAR ALL AT RISK DURING THIS SERIOUS DRIVABILITY CONCERN. ONCE ABLE TO RESTART THE CAR, THE TRANS AND ENGINE SINKED AND VERSA THEN DRIVABLE. EXITED THE ROADWAY. DROVE THE VEHICLE IN LESS POPULATED AREA TO THE DEALERSHIP. THIS ALL FOLLOWING A COMPLAINT TO THE DEALER IN MAY THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS MAKING UNUSAL NOISES WHICH THEY CLAIMED WAS NORMAL FOR THE 2014 CVT.