2011 Nissan Maxima
This year drew 106 complaints against a median of 95 across the Nissan Maxima's other years, 1.1× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at.
Generation 2 of the Nissan Maxima, which began in 2009 and ran to 2015. 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 | 106 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 95 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Maxima 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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