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2002 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #1115035

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT filed September 30, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1115035 (ODI reference 10640100) concerns a 2002 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on September 30, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 25, 2014. The vehicle had 230,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:macpherson strut, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN PATHFINDER cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:macpherson strut failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2002 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2002 NISSAN PATHFINDER
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT
State
Maryland
Mileage
230,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 NISSAN PATHFINDER. WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH OVER A BUMPY ROAD, THE VEHICLE RODE ROUGHLY. THE CONTACT DISCOVERED THAT THE STRUTS FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THERE WAS CORROSION ON THE STRUT TOWER HOUSING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 230,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1115035
ODI Number 10640100
Date Filed September 30, 2014
Failure Date September 25, 2014
VIN JN8DR09Y22W

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.