2021 Nissan Titan
This year drew an ordinary 108 complaints for a Nissan Titan — the model's median is 52. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.5% of them mention transmission, against 5.4% across the model's other years.
| Complaints filed | 108 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 52 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 31.5% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (5.9×).
- downshifts — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (14.9×). Owners wrote it as: downshifts, although.
- slowing — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: slowing, want, phone, technician.
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
Purchased vehi le with 2000 miles on it. Vehicle shifts very rough. When the transmission downshifts to stop it will bump or lerch forward. If you are not expecting it the truck will go forward. There is a lot of lag while accelerating. Dealer looked over vehi…
When slowing down the transmission will Jerk between gears 1 and 2 causing the truck to lunge forward.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V169000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 21V471000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V457000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 22V671000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V580000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
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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