Federal complaint record · Nissan Pathfinder · model year 2004

2004 Nissan Pathfinder

Owners submitted 67 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 2th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2002 to 2006 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 23% · group n = 20Airbags · 13% · group n = 11Powertrain · 11% · group n = 9Engine · 8% · group n = 7Visibility · 8% · group n = 7
67
Complaint records on file
76,684
Median mileage at the reported problem · 47 complaints reported mileage
23%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 20
2th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 33 model years

Brakes · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Brakes23%

Brakes reports

Nissan Pathfinder · model year 2004

Reports in this group20
Share of classified reports23%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2003
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
110 matched incidents
This car
2004
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
67 matched incidents
2005
1.0complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,050 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
Brake performance · 15 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 22004 Nissan Pathfinder
Airbag concerns · 8 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 22004 Nissan Pathfinder

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

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