1995 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #397020
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER:LPG SYSTEMS:TANK ASSEMBLY filed March 8, 2003
NHTSA complaint #397020 (ODI reference 10010146) concerns a 1995 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on March 8, 2003. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 7, 2003. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems:tank assembly, 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 equipment:recreational vehicle/trailer:lpg systems:tank assembly 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 1995 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I HAVE HAD TO REPLACE THE GAS TANK ON MY 1995 NISSAN PATHFINDER 4 TIMES IN THE PAST YEAR. IT WAS LAST REPLACED 1 MONTH AGO AND IS BEGINNING TO LEAK AGAIN. EACH TIME SPOT WELDS ON THE TANK HAVE BEEN DEFECTIVE, RESULTING IN A SLOW LEAK AND BUILD UP OF FUMES UNDER THE GAS TANK. I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY HAZARD THIS POSES. *NLM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 397020 |
| ODI Number | 10010146 |
| Date Filed | March 8, 2003 |
| Failure Date | March 7, 2003 |
| VIN | JN8HD17Y4SW |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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