2007 Nissan Pathfinder
Complaints about this year name fuel far more often than the other years of this generation — 19% of them, about 8× the usual rate of 2.5%.
Generation 1 of the Nissan Pathfinder, which began in 2005 and ran to 2012. 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 | 561 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 101 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 16.5 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- fuel gauge — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
- tank — 10% of complaints, 25× usual
- empty — 10% of complaints, 25× usual
What owners wrote
TAMARA INFLATORS , FUEL GAUGE REGISTERS EMPTY WHEN TANK IS FILLED AND WILL NOT DETECT THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF FUEL UNTIL HALF OF THE TANK IS EMPTY. THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME THE TANK IS FILLED.
WHILE DRIVING 40 MPH THE FUEL SENSOR LIGHT ILLUMINATED AND THE FUEL GAUGE DISPLAYED EMPTY; HOWEVER, THE FUEL TANK WAS NOT EMPTY. A COMPLAINT WAS FILED WITH THE DEALER BUT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 69000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 6…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10E019000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 08V690000 AIR BAGS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Pathfinder 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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