2006 NISSAN XTERRA — Complaint #2178488
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178488 (ODI reference 11719075) concerns a 2006 NISSAN XTERRA and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 5, 2025. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, 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 XTERRA cohort independently describe similar power train 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 2006 NISSAN XTERRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I have a lot of ticking and stalling lights are blinking I think itâs may be the transmission and I smell gas inside the vehicle.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178488 |
| ODI Number | 11719075 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 5, 2025 |
| VIN | 5N1AN08UX6C |
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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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