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2010 NISSAN MAXIMA — Complaint #1357739

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE filed February 21, 2017

NHTSA complaint #1357739 (ODI reference 10956176) concerns a 2010 NISSAN MAXIMA and was filed on February 21, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 11, 2017. The vehicle had 94,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York 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
New York
Mileage
94,000 mi

Complaint Description

STEERING COLUMN FAILURE. THE STEERING LOCKING MECHANISM SUDDENLY STOPPED WORKING. HAD TO GET IT TOWED AND COST NEARLY $1,500 TO GET THE VEHICLE FIXED. FOR A WELL MAINTAINED 2010 MAXIMA, THATS A LARGE UNEXPECTED BILL. SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING TO LOTS OF NISSAN MODELS. NISSAN NEEDS TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1357739
ODI Number 10956176
Date Filed February 21, 2017
Failure Date February 11, 2017
VIN 1N4AA5AP0AC

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.