2005 NISSAN MURANO — Complaint #792549
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:UNIVERSAL JOINT filed June 10, 2010
NHTSA complaint #792549 (ODI reference 10335618) concerns a 2005 NISSAN MURANO and was filed on June 10, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 9, 2009. The vehicle had 160,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:universal joint, 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 power train:driveline:universal joint 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 MURANO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 NISSAN MURANO. WHILE DRIVING AT ANY SPEED THE FUEL SENSOR BECAME DEFECTIVE AND THE UNIVERSAL JOINTS WERE COVERED WITH RUST. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FUEL SENSOR DISPLAYED THAT THERE WAS GASOLINE IN THE VEHICLE BUT THEN THE SENSOR WOULD DISPLAY THAT IT WAS EMPTY. THE CONTACT SPOKE WITH THE DEALER WHO STATED THAT THERE WERE NO RECALLS FOR THE DEFECTIVE PARTS AND THAT THE CONTACT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REPAIR COST WHICH WAS $500. THE COST FOR THE UNIVERSAL JOINTS WAS $280. THE WARRANTY WAS NO LONGER VALID. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED WHEN THE COMPLAINT WAS FILED. THE FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 160000. THE CURRENT MILEAGES WERE 170000. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 792549 |
| ODI Number | 10335618 |
| Date Filed | June 10, 2010 |
| Failure Date | December 9, 2009 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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