2006 Nissan Quest
This year drew an ordinary 74 complaints for a Nissan Quest — the model's median is 22. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.3% of them mention became, against 8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 74 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- became — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: became, shake, reaches, slowed.
- acceleration — 17.6% of this year's complaints, against 6% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, past, drop, transmission failed.
- tire — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: tire, tires, poor, flashes.
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 STEERING MALFUNCTIONED IN HER VEHICLE. SHE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE BUSHINGS INSIDE THE STEERING COLUMN WERE WORN AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE DEALER HAS TO ORDER THE PARTS FOR THE REPAIR. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 30,909.
WHILE REVERSING FROM A PARKING SPACE, THE TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM OFF AND SLIP WARNING LAMPS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY STALLED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE [VIN] WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE F…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 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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