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2010 NISSAN MAXIMA — Complaint #1336564

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE filed November 28, 2016

NHTSA complaint #1336564 (ODI reference 10928314) concerns a 2010 NISSAN MAXIMA and was filed on November 28, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 26, 2016. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Delaware based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:column locking:anti-theft device, 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 MAXIMA cohort independently describe similar steering:column locking:anti-theft device 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 2010 NISSAN MAXIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2010 NISSAN MAXIMA
Component
STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE
State
Delaware
Mileage
100,000 mi

Complaint Description

GOT IN CAR LEAVING FROM GYM THE STEERING WHEEL WAS LOCKED COULD NOT MOVE IT. CALLED DEALER WHO TOLD ME TO HOLD KEY FOB OVER CAR IGNITION DID NOT RESOLVE SITUATION. I HAD TO HAVE IT TOWED . I GOT ON LINE TO RESEARCH ABOUT THIS LOCKING MECHANISM AND HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH MILLIONS OF CONSUMER COMPLAINTS TO THIS VERY ISSUE THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH MILLIONS OF COMPLAINTS BEING FILED AGAINST NISSAN FOR THIS SITUATION. APPARENTLY THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RECALL ON THIS INTERNAL STEERING WHEEL LOCK MECHANISM HOWEVER NISSAN HAS PASSED THE COST OF THE FAULTY COMPONENT ONTO THE UNEXPECTED CONSUMER. THIS COST ME $1000.00 . SHAME ON YOU NISSAN. THANK GOD I WAS NOT IN MOTION. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1336564
ODI Number 10928314
Date Filed November 28, 2016
Failure Date November 26, 2016
VIN 1N4AA5AP1AC

Similar STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE Complaints for 2010 NISSAN MAXIMA

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