2012 Nissan Quest
Complaints about this year name cvt far more often than the model's other years — 16% of them, about 40× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 93 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 22 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- want — 16.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: want, sign, stop sign, cant.
- behind — 10.8% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: behind, pushed.
- complete stop — 6.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the model's other years (5.3×). Owners wrote it as: complete stop, stop vehicle, bags deploy.
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.
Also unusual this year
- stalled — 16% of complaints, 40× usual
- cvt transmission — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
- cars — 10% of complaints, 24× usual
What owners wrote
AT 119,000 MILES THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED A COMPLETE TRANSMISSION FAILURE WHILE DRIVING. THE VEHICLE WOULDN'T GET OUT OF 1ST GEAR, MAKING ACCELERATION FROM A DEAD STOP NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. SEVERAL CALLS TO MY NISSAN DEALERSHIP AND TO NISSAN CORPORATION RESULTED I…
THE VEHICLE STALLS DUE TO TRANSMISSION. CVT FAILED WHEN THE VEHICLE HAS SOME 93,000 MILES. VEHICLE STALLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREEWAY AND DID NOT MOVE. WE HAD TO TOW IT HOME. THIS SEEMS TO BE A WIDESPREAD PROBLEM WITH THESE VEHICLES.
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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