2008 Nissan Quest
This year drew an ordinary 50 complaints for a Nissan Quest — the model's median is 22. What they were about is the unusual part: 6% of them mention instead, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 50 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- instead — 6% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (30×).
- attached — 10% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: attached, city, certain, document.
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
ON CITY STREETS, THE CAR [VIN] WHEN I PRESS THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE RPM INCREASES AND I AM CERTAIN THAT I WAS NOT PRESSING THE GAS PEDAL. UNIVERSAL ATTACHED A BLACK BOX TO THE CAR BUT HAS REFUSED TO SHARE THE DATA. THE LATEST SERVICE WAS DONE RECENTLY.
NISSAN RECALLED CERTAIN VIN FOR FUEL GAUGE MALFUNCTION. MY FUEL GAUGE DOES NOT WORK AT ALL, AND MY ENGINE LIGHT IS ON ALL THE TIME. I LIVE IN [VIN] IN AZ THAT CAN EXCEED 125 DEGREES, SO IF I RUN OUT OF GAS, THIS COULD BE A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V072000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 08V187000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V067000 AIR BAGS
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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