2022 Nissan Pathfinder
This year drew an ordinary 133 complaints for a Nissan Pathfinder — the model's median is 101. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.5% of them mention tried, against 3% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Nissan Pathfinder was redesigned for 2022. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 133 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 101 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tried — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: tried, calling, unlock.
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
Fuel door does not lock. It does not lock when the car is locked by security system, and it does not lock when car is in motion. Car does not have to be turned off at gas station to unlock fuel door. There is no mechanism to keep the fuel door locked. There is…
While on the highway, I accelerated to pass a vehicle and the gas pedal stuck down quickly accelerating the car to over 90mph. I used the brake to slow the car, tried to stomp on pedal and ultimately had to remove my left shoe and jam my left foot under the pe…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V742000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V706000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V111000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V527000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
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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