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2005 NISSAN ALTIMA — Complaint #1558082

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558082 (ODI reference 11196454) concerns a 2005 NISSAN ALTIMA and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 27, 2017. The vehicle had 165,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 ALTIMA cohort independently describe similar engine 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 NISSAN ALTIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 NISSAN ALTIMA
Component
ENGINE
State
Arizona
Mileage
165,000 mi

Complaint Description

OIL SERVICE TURNED INTO 3K OUT OF POCKET COST IN CROSSVILLE TN WHEN J AND R SERVICED MY CAR. THEY INSISTED ON CRACKING OPEN THE ENGINE BLOCK TO REPLACE GASKETS THAT DID NOT NEED REPAIR. CAUSED SMOKING-IMPROPER PRESSURE AND OTHER PROBLEMS. BURNS MASSIVE AMTS OF OIL NOW. DID NOT BEFORE THE SERVICE- CYL4 FLOODS W OIL- MASSIVE PROBLEMS W OIL FLOODING SINCE. REPAIRED TWICE- BOTH TIMES I WAS TAKEN FOR MORE $$.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558082
ODI Number 11196454
Date Filed April 15, 2019
Failure Date April 27, 2017

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