2024 Nissan Pathfinder
This year drew an ordinary 73 complaints for a Nissan Pathfinder — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.4% of them mention these, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Nissan Pathfinder, which began in 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 73 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- these — 16.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
- replacing — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: replacing, after replacing, reoccurred, vehicle parked.
- child — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: child, address.
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
while the vehicle was parked, while opening the rear hatch, there was water leaking into the vehicle from the left and right sides of the hatch door. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed and determined that there were flaws with the seal, a…
Very unusual and excessive rear brake pads and rotor decay, I was asked by dealership to replace brake pads and rotor just at 22000 miles, and then after replacing again they are asking to replace just after another 19000 miles. And the automatic brake sometim…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V154000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V176000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Pathfinder 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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