2007 Infiniti G35
This year drew an ordinary 114 complaints for a Infiniti G35 — the model's median is 145. What they were about is the unusual part: 14% of them mention occasions, against 2.8% across the model's other years.
| Complaints filed | 114 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 145 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- occasions — 14% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: occasions, hesitates, vehicle hesitates, accelerating stop.
- turned off — 8.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (6.4×). Owners wrote it as: turned off, without issue, back car, car engine.
- clutch — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: clutch, cylinder, pumping, slave.
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
WHILE DRIVING UPHILL AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE CLUTCH PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD. IN ADDITION, THE BRAKE PEDAL REQUIRED EXCESSIVE FORCE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHO REPLACED THE CLUTCH SLAVE CYLINDER, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED A YEAR AFTER THE RE…
THE VEHICLE HESITATES WHEN ACCELERATING FROM A STOP. THE FAILURE OCCURS WHILE TURNING OR DRIVING FORWARD AND WAS NOTICED AT 10 MPH. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS AND THEY DUPLICATED THE FAILURE; HOWEVER, THEY STATED THAT THERE WAS N…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 08V521000 AIR BAGS
- 10V175000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V394000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
How this was worked out
Every year of the Infiniti G35 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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