2008 Infiniti G35
This year drew an ordinary 95 complaints for a Infiniti G35 — the model's median is 145. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.4% of them mention seat, against 9.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 95 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 145 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 27.4% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the model's other years (2.8×).
- vin — 20% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the model's other years (3.1×).
- further — 14.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: further, discovered, hope, impacts.
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
THE CONTACTS OWNS A 2008 INFINITI G35. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT REMAINED ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER, WHO DISCOVERED THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BUT THE FAILURE RECUR…
B1022 OCCUPANT SENS C/U [COMM FAIL] - CURRENT B1022 OCCUPANT SENS C/U [COMM FAIL] - PAST Passenger seat Air Bag: There is a recall on this part for my vehicle's year make and model, but my VIN shows my car isn't apart of the recall.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 08V521000 AIR BAGS
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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