2017 NISSAN MURANO — Complaint #1882615
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER filed March 24, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1882615 (ODI reference 11513572) concerns a 2017 NISSAN MURANO and was filed on March 24, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 17, 2021. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:mid/rear assembly:seat heater/cooler, 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 MURANO cohort independently describe similar seats:mid/rear assembly:seat heater/cooler 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 2017 NISSAN MURANO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Nissan Murano. The contact stated that while his wife was driving approximately 70-75 MPH, the rear seat warmer overheated and burned the seat and the blanket on the seat. The contact called the dealer who stated that the seat needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 80,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1882615 |
| ODI Number | 11513572 |
| Date Filed | March 24, 2023 |
| Failure Date | March 17, 2021 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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