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Model years to avoid

Nissan Maxima

What it says about you

Opinion

The four-door sports car, according to the advertising, for about thirty years. You believed it in at least one of those decades.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

19 model years on record, 3,045 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2010 (lock), 2009 (steering), 2006 (transmission), 2005 (transmission). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • steering 2009, 2010, 2012 peak 56.4% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2005, 2006 peak 69.3% of that year's complaints
  • start 2009, 2010 peak 51.6% of that year's complaints
  • lock 2009, 2010 peak 45.8% of that year's complaints
  • gear 2005, 2006 peak 39.3% of that year's complaints
  • shifting 2005, 2006 peak 27.6% of that year's complaints
  • loose 2012, 2017 peak 10.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2023 0 recalls 1 complaints
  2. 2022 0 recalls 5 complaints
  3. 2021 0 recalls 3 complaints
  4. 2020 1 recall 21 complaints
  5. 2019 1 recall 18 complaints
  6. 2018 2 recalls 36 complaints
  7. 2017 4 recalls 103 complaints
  8. 2016 8 recalls 142 complaints
  9. 2015 0 recalls 1 complaints
  10. 2014 0 recalls 95 complaints
  11. 2013 0 recalls 62 complaints
  12. 2012 0 recalls 107 complaints
  13. 2011 0 recalls 106 complaints
  14. 2010 lock 275 complaints
  15. 2009 steering 339 complaints
  16. 2008 0 recalls 78 complaints
  17. 2007 1 recall 129 complaints
  18. 2006 transmission 576 complaints
  19. 2005 transmission 948 complaints

What does a Nissan Maxima say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.