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2016 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #1460854

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NHTSA Complaint about Other/Unknown filed April 10, 2018

NHTSA complaint #1460854 (ODI reference 11084475) concerns a 2016 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on April 10, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 2, 2018. The vehicle had 22,627 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 other/unknown, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 other/unknown 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 2016 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 NISSAN PATHFINDER
Component
Other/Unknown
Crash
Yes
State
California
Mileage
22,627 mi

Complaint Description

I DROVE UP TO 16,000 MILES AND THEN THE ENGINE SUDDENLY MADE A WEIRD SOUND. I WENT TO 2 NISSAN DEALERSHIPS TO CHECK IT OUT AND IT SAID IT WAS NORMAL FOR 2016 PATHFINDER.BUT WHILE DRIVING SOMETIMES IT WILL CAUSE A HUMMING NOISE LIKE A BEE AND ITS REALLY ANNOYING, I WENT TO CHECK IT OUT AND IT SAID IT WAS NORMAL, WHAT DO I DO NOW?

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1460854
ODI Number 11084475
Date Filed April 10, 2018
Failure Date April 2, 2018
VIN 5N1AR2MN9GC

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