2009 Nissan Titan
This year drew an ordinary 47 complaints for a Nissan Titan — the model's median is 81. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.9% of them mention accident, against 4.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 47 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 81 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- accident — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (3.1×).
- foot — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (12.4×).
- stop vehicle — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (9.7×).
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
Our 2009 Nissan Titan was involved in a roll over accident and no air bags deployed. The driver side air bags did NOT deployed at all. My son ended up with a broken collarbone, fractured back rib and possibly humorous fracture on muscle injuries the accident.…
My fuel gauge on my truck does not work properly. When my gauge shows a quarter tank full its completely empty. The reason i know it doesn't is because it died on me in the middle of an intersection and blocked traffic. The gauge still showed a quarter tank of…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10E019000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 10V072000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V074000 FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER Fixed free of charge.
- 23V067000 AIR BAGS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Titan 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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