2023 Nissan Frontier
Complaints about this year name battery far more often than the other years of this generation — 23% of them, about 26× the usual rate of 0.9%.
Generation 2 of the Nissan Frontier, which began in 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 128 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 46 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 19.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- lights — 31.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (13.9×).
- going — 23.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (4.1×).
- again — 25% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the other years of this generation (3.5×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- going — 23% of complaints, 17× usual
- forward — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
- dealership where — 16% of complaints, 34× usual
What owners wrote
The trucks, automatic emergency braking system activated, causing an accident that otherwise would not have occurred. Prior to this incident - Forward collision warning, rear cross traffic, and blind spot warning lights would activate episodically.
When setting remote control and the vehicle needs to speed up there are times when the vehicle will lunge forward. When in lower gears there are times when the vehicle is like trying to find a gear. No accident at this time. I have asked if there have been any…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V273000 TIRES 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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