2011 Nissan Quest
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Nissan Quest — the model's median is 22. What they were about is the unusual part: 45.5% of them mention fuel, against 14% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 45.5% of this year's complaints, against 14% across the model's other years (3.3×).
- tank — 40.9% of this year's complaints, against 14% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- down — 36.4% of this year's complaints, against 12.2% across the model's other years (3×).
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
My vehicle is experiencing the issue under Recall NHTSA ID 12V076000: fuel supply issue that could cause engine stalling. Specifically, due to a programming error, the fuel pump might not supply enough fuel to the engine when driving at slow speeds or idling d…
WHEN DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD MY VAN WILL START JERKING LIKE IT'S NOT GETTING ENOUGH FUEL. I HAD IT CHECKED OUT AND THE MECHANIC COULD FIND NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. WE DRIVE AROUND AND IT WOULDN'T ACT UP. SINCE THEN, I'VE NOTICED IT DOES WHEN WHEN USING THE WINDSHI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 12V076000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Quest 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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