Federal complaint record · Nissan Altima · model year 2010

2010 Nissan Altima

Owners submitted 380 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 41th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 14% · group n = 74Other · 14% · group n = 73Powertrain · 14% · group n = 73Airbags · 11% · group n = 61Engine · 10% · group n = 54
380
Complaint records on file
53,128
Median mileage at the reported problem · 271 complaints reported mileage
14%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 74
41th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Electrical · 1 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Electrical14%

Electrical reports

Nissan Altima · model year 2010

Reports in this group74
Share of classified reports14%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,547 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
380 matched incidents
2011
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
241 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 42 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32010 Nissan Altima
Brake performance · 42 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32010 Nissan Altima
Transmission behavior · 42 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32010 Nissan Altima

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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