2010 Nissan Murano
This year drew an ordinary 189 complaints for a Nissan Murano — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.6% of them mention brakes, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Nissan Murano, which began in 2009 and ran to 2014. 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 | 189 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 20.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (5.4×).
- pedal — 20.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (3.6×).
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
BRAKES FAILED AND REPLACED MASTER CYLINDER TWICE BRAKES FAILED AGAIN . PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR WHILE DRIVING.
SOFT BRAKE PEDAL, BRAKES WON'T STOP. VERY DANGEROUS. SAME ISSUE AS 2009 RECALL. THIS IS A 2010 BUT [VIN] 10/2009 AND SHOULD BE INCLUDED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Murano 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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