2010 Nissan 370Z
Complaints about this year name steering far more often than the model's other years — 57% of them, about 143× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 110 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 5 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- start — 55% of complaints, 136× usual
- lock — 55% of complaints, 136× usual
- steering lock — 30% of complaints, 75× usual
What owners wrote
CLUTCH PEDAL WENT TO FLOOR. CLUTCH SLAVE CYLINDER FAILED. FAILED IN MOTION, 75 MILES FROM HOME. TOW WAS EXPENSIVE. CAR WOULD NOT START. STEERING LOCK UNIT FAILED. FAILED IN STATIONARY , 95 MILES FROM HOME. TOW WAS EXPENSIVE.
THE INTELLIKEY WARNING LIGHT CAME ON AND THE STEERING LOCKED. THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS REGARDING THIS ISSUE. A DESIGN AND SAFETY ISSUE. THE LIGHT ILLUMINATED WHEN DRIVING. AFTER THE CAR WAS TURNED OFF IT DID NOT START.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan 370Z 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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