2020 Nissan Frontier
This year drew an ordinary 46 complaints for a Nissan Frontier — the model's median is 48. What they were about is the unusual part: 30.4% of them mention aware, against 9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Nissan Frontier, which began in 2005 and ran to 2021. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 46 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 48 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 19.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- aware — 30.4% of this year's complaints, against 9% across the other years of this generation (3.4×).
- stated driving — 21.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (6.8×).
- illuminated — 26.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the other years of this generation (3.8×).
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 at an undisclosed speed and coming to a stop, the brake pedal was depressed, and the contact became aware that the brake lights were inoperable. There was no warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not diag…
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the transmission shifted into NEUTRAL and the vehicle lost motive power. The check engine and transmission warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and diagnosed with code P0729 (Gear 6 Incorre…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V457000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 22V671000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Frontier 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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