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Model years to avoid

Nissan Pathfinder

What it says about you

Opinion

Went soft for a decade, then went back to being a proper thing. Which yours is says something about when you bought it.

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

21 model years on record, 5,560 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (fan), 2014 (sun), 2013 (seat), 2008 (fuel gauge), 2007 (fuel), 2006 (fuel), 2005 (fuel). 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.

  • cruise 2018, 2019 peak 35.1% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2018, 2019 peak 32.4% of that year's complaints
  • unlock 2020, 2022 peak 7.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 8 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 47 complaints
  3. 2024 2 recalls 73 complaints
  4. 2023 1 recall 101 complaints
  5. 2022 5 recalls 133 complaints
  6. 2020 0 recalls 52 complaints
  7. 2019 2 recalls 74 complaints
  8. 2018 3 recalls 77 complaints
  9. 2017 2 recalls 185 complaints
  10. 2016 2 recalls 107 complaints
  11. 2015 fan 319 complaints
  12. 2014 sun 573 complaints
  13. 2013 seat 890 complaints
  14. 2012 2 recalls 23 complaints
  15. 2011 2 recalls 45 complaints
  16. 2010 5 recalls 40 complaints
  17. 2009 4 recalls 37 complaints
  18. 2008 fuel gauge 328 complaints
  19. 2007 fuel 561 complaints
  20. 2006 fuel 837 complaints
  21. 2005 fuel 1,050 complaints

What does a Nissan Pathfinder 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.