2015 Nissan Murano
This year drew an ordinary 202 complaints for a Nissan Murano — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.3% of them mention low, against 5.4% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Nissan Murano was redesigned for 2015. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 202 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- low — 17.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: low, speeds, low speed, rpms.
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
Car began shaking on acceleration and low speeds and wouldn't stop shaking until approx 40mph or above. Upon braking to take a right hand turn car died, just stopped accelerating even though all lights on and running. No response at all when pushing pedal to t…
CVT transmission would struggle at low speeds, it would feel like it was jumping or getting caught on something. No check engine light or other error codes would display. Dealership insisted nothing was wrong. After 3rd check in 6 years, they finally got an er…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V601000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V636000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 15V364000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V244000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V807000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Murano 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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