2024 Nissan Altima
This year drew an ordinary 41 complaints for a Nissan Altima — the model's median is 424. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.3% of them mention lights dashboard, against 0% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Nissan Altima, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 41 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 424 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- lights dashboard — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (36.6×).
- caused — 17.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.2% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
- may — 14.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation (3×).
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
Rear seatbelt sensors in my 2024 Nissan Altima repeatedly beep and show an unbuckled warning, even when the back seat is unoccupied and with zero belongings. This started around 2 months ago. This causes a distraction while driving and may indicate a malfuncti…
While driving for Uber, a customer alerted the contact of an abnormally strong odor in the rear seats of the vehicle. The contact later discovered that there was white mold inside the trunk of the vehicle and the spare tire compartment which was caused by the…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V882000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Altima 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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