2019 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #1880077
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS:SWITCH filed March 14, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1880077 (ODI reference 11511792) concerns a 2019 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on March 14, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 2, 2022. The report was geocoded to Louisiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:brake lights:switch, 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 PATHFINDER cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:brake lights:switch 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 2019 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2019 Nissan Pathfinder. The contact stated while the vehicle was stationary, she was unable to start the vehicle. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact stated that the radio and other electrical features were operable. The contact stated that the vehicle was jump-started. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed with needing the stop lamp switch to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired but continued to experience the failure. The contact took the vehicle back to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed with needing the stop lamp switch to be replaced a second time. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1880077 |
| ODI Number | 11511792 |
| Date Filed | March 14, 2023 |
| Failure Date | February 2, 2022 |
| VIN | 5N1DR2MN1KC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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