Federal complaint record · Nissan Pathfinder · model year 2015

2015 Nissan Pathfinder

Owners submitted 319 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 39th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2013 to 2017 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is other. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Other · 18% · group n = 79Powertrain · 18% · group n = 76Engine · 17% · group n = 75Airbags · 13% · group n = 55Speed control · 6% · group n = 27
319
Complaint records on file
44,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 217 complaints reported mileage
18%
Of classified component reports name other · group n = 79
39th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Other · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Other18%

Other reports

Nissan Pathfinder · model year 2015

Reports in this group79
Share of classified reports18%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2014
0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
574 matched incidents
This car
2015
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
319 matched incidents
2016
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
103 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 · 45 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32015 Nissan Pathfinder
Transmission behavior · 43 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32015 Nissan Pathfinder
Brake performance · 28 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32015 Nissan Pathfinder

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

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