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This is not exactly a problem but I cant get the fuel economy display to stay on while the radio is operating in my Murano SL. It stays on if the audio system is off but goes away after a few seconds of switching the audio on. Does anyone know how to keep the fuel economy display and the radio display on at the same time?
I have the seat up high because I am short. My husband is tall and has trouble getting into the car and cannot adjust the seat to his position until the key is in the ignition. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Section 3 page 17 of your owners manual describes the procedure.
It's great when it's set up!
can you email me texamau2@netscape.net the detail of how to get into this custom menu? I tried the setting button but can not find this feature..I have a navigation ..
Thanks
Te
Got locked out once, but I had my windows down so it wasn't a problem. I just hit the unlock button before I get out to check my mail, now.
Never had any popping or rattle noises, I guess mine was one of the rare Mo's that got put together right!
Anyhow, just thought I'd voice my experience, because people coming in here considering this car should know it isn't all bad!
Sure I have a few rattles, but what car dosn't they are all made out of plastic interiors now.
Quick questions:
1. Can anyone explain the difference between the SE and SL
2. Are the kinks worked out of it?
3. How is it adjusting to the rear window?
Thanks
Dave
I have an 03 with 15,000 miles on it and no problems at all yet. I do drive with the AWD lock switch engaged, but as the owners manual suggests, I only use it to get started in slippery conditions.
Your not driving with it locked on all the time or are you?
More $$$$, firmer suspension.
2. Are the kinks worked out of it?
Some yes, some no, depends who you talk to.
3. How is it adjusting to the rear window?
Yes
It's also (IMO) pretty clear about what you shouldn't do with the AWD button locked.
Section 5, pages 18 and 19 of the owner's manual are pretty specific.
What questions do you have after reading these pages?
I can't think of any questions that aren't covered.
Reference: Date:
ST03-004 NTB03-065 June 25, 2003
2003 MURANO; STEERING NOISE AND/OR
STEEERING WHEEL ALIGNMENT CHANGES
APPLIED VEHICLE: 2003 Murano (Z50)
APPLIED VIN(S): Vehicles built up to: JN8AZ08 T *3W 118145
Vehicles built up to: JN8AZ08 W *3W 231037
APPLIED DATE: Vehicles built up to: 14-May-2003
IF YOU CONFIRM:
An Applied vehicle has
• Steering noises (perhaps described as a popping sound)
and / or
• Steering wheel alignment changes.
I have an 03 Murano SE with a few minor rattles, but nothing I won't be able to take care of once the weather warms up. I have no problems with the CVT, steering, alternator, locking doors, or anything else.
I'm up to 15,000 miles and I would re purchase the same vehicle in a minute (SE, loaded with everything including NAV) if something happened to the one I'm in now.
Make sure YOU test drive anything your interested in carefully before making any decisions about what to put on or take off your short list for new vehicles.
IMO, the Murano can't be touched for the overall value for the money in the mid-size SUV category. It's far nicer than the Pilot, has better acceleration, braking, handling, and better gas mileage than anything in it's class.
I have the same question as eweiss regarding the 2004 Murano and if all the "bugs" have been worked out.
I currently have a 2004 RX330 with so many tranny problems, electrical problems,rattles, etc. that my dealer can't fix so they offered to buy it back. The Murano was my other choice from the beginning(it was a hard decision!)
I know the problems usually don't start occurring until you've had the car a while, but if anyone has a 2004, your feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Hope this isn't considered off -topic since were on the Murano board!
The tranny lurks and jerks, when you least expect it (or want it to-for accident's sake!) and almost every time i decelerate, something underneath the car "clunks". There was a supposed TSB for the first problem, but it doesn't help. My dealer said there wasn't a TSB for the "clunk" but I just found out yesterday from the helpful RX330 Problems & Solutions board here that there is one! It really doesn't help that my service dept. is either completely ignorant, or totally dishonest! I'm certainly not impressed with Lexus' famed customer service!
The electrical problems:power rear door just stops working for a day or so, then works again. Power window wouldn't go up, several times, and Navi just "blacked out" for a few hours twice.
My car was manufactured in May, so it is one of the "newer" cars from a production standpoint.
But I am not alone! Many other people are having the identical problems, unfortunately
Maybe I should have bought a Murano-and still may!
Does anyone have any experience with this - They've replaced the transfer case 1x already and in AWD lock and 6" of snow yesterday, it was smelly (oil on hot metal smell) when I got home.
Get my point?
Actually, we've have a number of topics in that vein but, unfortunately they don't last due to lack of interest. (E.g, the Happy Ford Explorer Owners discussion lasted a whopping 365 posts!)
tidester, host
I purchased a brand new '04 Nissan Murano in Feb of 2004.
To date it has less that 300 km on it.
The first time I took it through a touch-less car wash the sunroof started leaking in the wash.
I made sure the glass roof was fully closed, and just has the inside slide door opened purposely
to check for leaks. To my surprise, it was dripping water from the roof.
I contacted my dealership the next day and had booked an appointment the for the following week.
I explained to them what happened and was told to leave the SUV for the day for inspection.
A few hours later I was told I can pick up my SUV. I was given 2 different answers from my dealership service department and one resolution which was UNACCEPTABLE. I was told explained by one person that the sunroof had these drainage holes to filter out water and that if its not full drained out, it will drip water if I open the roof. (My roof was not opened when it was dripping.) Secondly, I was told that Sunoco uses a high pressure system who clean cars, with that and my SUV being tall and close to the pressure valves it will lift the molding around the roof and cause water to slip through. The resolution I was told was not to use Sunoco's washes. Which I feel is not acceptable.
I've had other cars and there was no problems with the high pressure washes.
I asked them how did they test for leaks on my SUV while I had left it there.
I was told that the has use a hose and prayed the roof and found no leaks. Not very effective way to simulate a high pressure wash.
Now if its just the high pressure wash system is causing the problem,if i was driving down the highway at 100km/ hour in the rain with wind speeds of 40 km/ hour, which is equivalent the high pressure if a car wash, my car will leak.
I've contacted the head office for customer service at Nissan Canada and was given about the same story and resolution. I have another appointment One Monday March 29th, this time I will ask them to drive through the wash with me.
I have a friend who has a Murano as well and there are no leaks in his sunroof.
Although the car is under warranty, do I have any recourse? Since Nissan is of no help.
Do you have the sunroof deflector?
my nissan dealer ship is trying to blame the defector as a contributor to the over flow of water being trapped in the sunroof area and causing the leak.
update on the problem:
April 1 2004- The sales manager at my dealership called me yesterday to address my problem. he said that he spoke with the shop foreman and nissan canada. there is nothing they can further do. basically, i'm screwed.
i called another dealership in my area and booked an appointment for April 7th. i explained the situation to him and what he other nissan dealership had said. although there was not much he can do over the phone. he offered to go thru the car wash with me and see the leak himself as it will give him first hand knowledge of where the leak is and the replay it back to his foreman.
best answer if got in 2 weeks. as i had requested with the original dealership to do and even offered the wash ticket, yet they rejected my request. i just hope it will be fixed this time.
the other day, i saw another murano driver in a parking lot and asked him if he had experienced the same problem. when i mentioned the sunroof, immediately he said that it leaked when in the car wash. LOL. nissan should really do a recall if more owners complain. feel i should've gotten a honda pilot instead.
any thoughts?
I never take my cars to a car wash so I can not comment on that. I pefer to wash my hand.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of noise? Any resolutions?
You have a 04, some 03's had an issue with the lid not closing which could lead to rattling.
Thanks.
As for feeling the shifting between 15 and 35 MPH, if you can feel any shifting it is much less noticable than in ANY regular automatic transmission.
While the CVT is not for everyone, once you drive it for awhile you will get used to it. Over time you may actually be like me and find that this is probably the best thing about the Murano (OK, maybe second to the styling).
Almost immediately the windows started letting themselves down when I was not around. My salesman and then the service manager told me the Murano did not have this problem and that I must be doing something wrong.
On the night of 12/10/03 the car let the windows down the interior of the car was open to a hard rain for eight hours. The dealership then contacted the tech service who acknowledged that Nissan was having this problem with a couple models and with my VIN number is in the right range. Nissan even has a service bulletin about the problem.
I contacted Nissan customer relations who authorized the use of a rental car while they fixed it.
The pickup driver for the rental car company asked what kind of car I had. When I said a Murano he said that he had had a lot of customers with Muranos and “ did my transmission fail too.”’ I replied, “not yet.” When I quizzed my salesman about it he acknowledged the Murano had transmission problems but, “that was in the early ones. They’re a lot better now.”
The next thing to fail was my CD player. I was initially told that it was just dirt in the head and that I was not cleaning it often enough. The car was less than a month old! Service has since identified that the unit was defective and replaced it.
I was out of the county for two weeks in December. Upon my return, problems started again. Sometime around the 3rd week of December the car locked me out while I was warming it up behind my house. That turned out to be very fortunate. I started carrying extra keys.
We had a blizzard 1/24/04. I was out at a local club with friends. I started my car and let it warm up while I cleared the windows. I now discovered a couple more unique features of the Murano. Because of the long sloped front window the defroster would not adequately warm the window to keep the snow melted. This same window requires long windshield wiper arms. It takes very little snow to stall these wipers making them entirely useless.
I limped back home stopping every few minutes to clear my windshield. I had very little visibility. The defroster would not clear the fog from the windows and the windshield wiper would not work. One time while I was out clearing the windows (with the motor running) the doors locked (I was parked with the transmission in park). It was 13 degrees out!
On or about the 2/4/04 I came out of an IGA and my windows were down again. At the time I had about $1400 of valuables in the back . On the 2/12 my dealer disabled the remote entry system and replaced the radio.. They could not assure me that the windows problem was fixed and the service manager, suggested that “I should not carry valuables in this car.”
On 2/14 I had two more random lockouts. My dealer then reprogrammed the key fob so I could not use the remote entry system.
I asked to return the car. I have had three customers relations men. On 3/6/04 was told that Nissan had decided I was stuck with the car!
On 3/13 the car rolled down the windows while there were lots (!) of expensive items in the car. The next day while I was sitting in the car (with the key in the ignition) viewing some pictures the doors locked.
Now some times when I lock the doors the horn does not sound. That may not sound like much but I use this feature to find the car in a crowded parking lot or in my parking garage. It also means I must physically check to see if the doors are locked when it happens.
Then the display started telling me my left door was open when it wasn’t. On 4/26 the car was acting up and I got into the dealership. The display said the door was open, the remote would not beep, and while we were standing there the windows went down. Two service managers were there observing and I got it in writing on a dealership repair order.
Throughout this Nissan has been uncooperative -- pretty much suggesting I was making it up. My dealer won’t take the loss and is hesitant to back me up for fear of Nissan.
I had been a good Nissan customer. I have had five new Nissans in 1975 (B210 wagon) , 1978 (pickup) , 1981 (king-cab 4x4 pickup) , 1997 (bought a low mileage Pathfinder that was serviced at same dealer), 2000 (Pathfinder) and now in 2003 (Murano). My kids have owned three more used ones (280Z, 280 ZX, and a NX).
The problems remain unfixed. The case is now in the hands of the Ohio lemon-law administrator. I have filed an NHTSB complaint. NISSAN has been uncooperative and the dealer has not been much better. I am an ex-Nissan customer that is being as vocal as I can. I expect backlash from Nissan but I can document all of this.