2008 Infiniti QX56
This year drew an ordinary 52 complaints for a Infiniti QX56 — the model's median is 32. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.2% of them mention causing, against 5.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 52 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 32 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- causing — 21.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (4.2×).
- airbags — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (4.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
I was involved in an auto rollover accident on January2, 2023 when a driver "t-boned" me in my 2008 Infiniti Qx56 striking the middle of the passenger side of my Qx56 after running a stop sign and failing to yield to my right of way causing my Qx56 to roll ove…
THE AIR FLOW PANEL ON MY DASH HAS MELTED AND IS CAUSING AIR FLOW PROBLEMS. I FEEL IT IS UNSAFE TO RUN HOT AIR IN THE WINTER TO DEFROST THE FRONT WINDSHIELD AND WHEN I DO RUN IT THE FLOW IS SOME WHAT BLOCKED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10E019000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 10V072000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V349000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V074000 FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Infiniti QX56 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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