2005 NISSAN ALTIMA — Complaint #658766
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:RELAY filed February 23, 2008
NHTSA complaint #658766 (ODI reference 10218967) concerns a 2005 NISSAN ALTIMA and was filed on February 23, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 21, 2007. The vehicle had 64,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:starter assembly:relay, 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 ALTIMA cohort independently describe similar electrical system:starter assembly:relay 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 2005 NISSAN ALTIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CAR WILL JERK AND CUT OFF SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNING, WHEN CAR IS IN MOTION AND WHEN SITTING STILL IDLING. MAKES DRIVING VERY HAZARDOUS. FOUND OUT A RECALL ON THE CRANKSHAFT SENSOR SO CALLED LOCAL NISSAN DEALER AND TOOK IN FOR THE REPAIR. FOUND OUT NISSAN ONLY ALLOWS DEALER TO REPROGRAM THE SENSOR UNDER THE RECALL. THIS, ACCORDING TO THE DEALER, PROBABLY WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM, AFTER 3 DAYS OF DRIVING WITH NO EVENT, IT STARTED AGAIN. I FOUND OUT THIS IS A MAJOR RECALL INVOLVING THOUSANDS OF ALTIMA'S. ALSO, SINCE THE 2005 MODEL, THE NISSAN CORP. HAS REDESIGNED THIS SENSOR BECAUSE OF ALL THE PAST PROBLEMS . THE LOCAL DEALER THAT REPROGRAMMED THE SENSOR SAID WE WILL HAVE TO PAY $194.00 TO REPLACE IT. WHEN NISSAN REDESIGNED THIS SENSOR DUE TO PROBLEMS IN THE PAST, THEY SHOULD STAND BY THE OWNERS OF THE STILL DEFECTIVE PARTS THAT REPROGRAMMING DOES NOT FIX, AND REPLACE THE SENSOR AS PART OF THE RECALL. THIS IS ABSURD TO PAY FOR A REPLACEMENT PART INVOLVED IN A RECALL. TH
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 658766 |
| ODI Number | 10218967 |
| Date Filed | February 23, 2008 |
| Failure Date | November 21, 2007 |
| VIN | 1N4AL11D45C |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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