2005 INFINITI G35 — Complaint #1347292
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION filed January 9, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1347292 (ODI reference 10943951) concerns a 2005 INFINITI G35 and was filed on January 9, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 9, 2017. The vehicle had 3,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission, 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 INFINITI G35 cohort independently describe similar power train:manual transmission 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 2005 INFINITI G35 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
INFINITI G35 SEDAN 6 SPEED MANUAL TRANSMISSION - UP REV - VQ35DE OIL CONSUMPTION IS BEYOND SAFE AND OPERATIONAL UNDER NORMAL DRIVING CONDITIONS. INITIALLY CAR ENGINE SEIZED AFTER 3000 MILES OF DRIVING. DEALERSHIP SAID IT WAS THE OIL CONSUMPTION, AND THE CUSTOMER NEEDED TO ADD OIL. (THIS INCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED BY INFINITI OF MARIN). ACCORDING TO INIFINIT TSB - ITB08-002D - THIS IS AN APPARENT PROBLEM, AND THERE IS A TEST AND SOLUTION FOR THIS FAULTY ENGINE. INIFINITI CONSUMER AFFAIRS SAYS I AM OUT OF WARRANTY PERIOD, AND THIS WILL HAVE TO BE AN OUT OF POCKET EXPENSE. THEY ALSO MENTIONED IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DEALERSHIP TO NOTIFY THE CUSTOMERS, AND IT IS OUT OF THEIR CONTROL. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1347292 |
| ODI Number | 10943951 |
| Date Filed | January 9, 2017 |
| Failure Date | January 9, 2017 |
| VIN | JNKCV51E55M |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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