2012 Nissan Murano
This year drew an ordinary 264 complaints for a Nissan Murano — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.6% of them mention similar, against 4.2% 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 | 264 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- similar — 10.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: similar, happened again, acting, mechanic replaced.
- indicator — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: indicator, requested, scan, rejected.
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
I WAS VEERING OFF A RURAL HIGHWAY IN A 2012 NISSAN MURANO ONTO A GRAVEL PARKING AREA AND STARTED BRAKING WHEN I BECAME AWARE THAT WHILE APPLYING BRAKES THE PEDDLE WAS NOT STOPPING THE VEHICLE. I HAD TO PRESS VERY HARD ON BRAKES AND IT EVENTUALLY STOPPED. I WAS…
Could be an issue with ABS component. Car driving normally then when attempting to brake car slows but does not stop and driver needs to almost pin brake to floor to fully stop car. Car braking not acting as normal potentially putting driver at risk. No warnin…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 12V068000 TIRES
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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