2010 Nissan Cube
Complaints about this year name steering far more often than the model's other years — 31% of them, about 10× the usual rate of 3.2%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 110 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- get — 18% of complaints, 45× usual
- lock — 31% of complaints, 6× usual
- steering lock — 15% of complaints, 36× usual
What owners wrote
I COULDN'T START MY CAR. LIGHTS, HORN ETC. WERE WORKING. AFTER HRS. OF RESEARCH (@ HOME, ONLINE) COULDN'T RESOLVE THE PROBLEM SO HAD IT TOWED TO POUGHKEEPSIE NISSAN. DISCOVERED IT WAS THE STEERING LOCK CONTROL UNIT. I SEE THAT NISSAN HAS HAD MANY PROBLEMS & EV…
STEERING WHEEL DOES NOT LOCK. DASH LIGHTS COME ON, KEY IS RECOGNIZED, BUT SOMETIMES ENGINE DOES NOT START DUE TO DEAD BATTERY. FAILURE SEEMS TO BE STEERING LOCK MECHANISM IN UNLOCKED POSITION AT ALL TIMES CAUSING BATTERY TO DRAIN. BATTERY REPLACED 2 TIMES IN 9…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V330000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V230000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Cube 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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