2014 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #2078959
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NHTSA Complaint about LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:HOOD:LATCH filed March 31, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2078959 (ODI reference 11651857) concerns a 2014 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on March 31, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2024. The vehicle had 178,493 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 latches/locks/linkages:hood:latch, 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 latches/locks/linkages:hood:latch 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 2014 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 Nissan Pathfinder. The contact stated that the hood latch was stuck closed and failed to open. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V420000 (Latches/Locks/Linkages); however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The local dealer was contacted. The dealer was unable to open the hood to complete the recall repair. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The manufacturer referred the contact to another local dealer. The failure mileage was approximately 178,493.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2078959 |
| ODI Number | 11651857 |
| Date Filed | March 31, 2025 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2024 |
| VIN | 5N1AR2MM3EC |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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