2020 Nissan Titan
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Nissan Titan — the model's median is 81. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.3% of them mention transmission, against 5.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 81 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 33.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (6.2×).
- year — 19% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (5×).
- going — 19% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the model's other years (3.3×).
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
I the last 6 months the truck has the TCM replaced after leaving me stranded on the side of the road. prior to completely going out the two dealers that looked at the truck said there was nothing wrong. the truck has had to be towed in three times to clear the…
The EVAP Canister and Control Valve clogs with road dust/dirt. Fuel vapors have nowhere to exits the system and fuel will overflow when fueling the vehicle. Fuel vapors have no way to exit the tank when the fuel cap is in place, creating an over pressure. This…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V169000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 20V759000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V471000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V457000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 22V671000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Titan 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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