2005 Nissan Quest
This year drew an ordinary 82 complaints for a Nissan Quest — the model's median is 22. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.3% of them mention regarding, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 82 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- regarding — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (36.6×). Owners wrote it as: regarding, sunglass.
- odometer — 11% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: odometer, temp, console, sometime.
- second time — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: second time, only 000.
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
THE ODOMETER AND FUEL GAUGE LED DISPLAY, EITHER VANISHES COMPLETELY OR SHOWS CORRUPTED INFORMATION. THIS WILL REMAIN FOR SOMETIME AND THE GET FIXED ON ITS OWN, THIS KEEPS ON HAPPENING FREQUENTLY.
WHILE DRIVING THE INSTRUMENT PANEL GOES IN AND OUT MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO SEE SPEED, FUEL LEVEL, TEMP, TURNING SIGNALS, RPMS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE NECESSARY TO DRIVE SAFELY. SOMETIMES WHILE THE PANEL COMES BACK TO WORKING PROPERLY IT ENABLES THE OVERDRIVE CAUSI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V480000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 05V474000 SEATS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Quest 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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