Nissan CVT Failure a Guide and a Warning.

This site is born outof painful personal experience. Eventually it will host a database where you can enter your Nissan's VIN Number, CVT failure, Mileage,Nissan Helpdesk ticket number, and Date. This Database will be searchable by VIN so if your have or are thinking of buying a Nissan with a xtronic CVT you can check if the vechile has already suffered a CVT failure or failures.

If you own a Nissan with the problematic CVT the best thin you can do if you don't trade it in, is have a secondary radiator fitted as the main failure mechanism is insuffient cooling.
Was Nissan aware of this, I beleive the anwser is yes. Look at this Technical Service Bulitin from November 25, 2015 to see why this is pretty certain:



Nissan Altima TSB_NYB13-095c.pdf