2007 NISSAN MAXIMA — Complaint #807556
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES:KNUCKLE:SPINDLE:ARM filed August 17, 2010
NHTSA complaint #807556 (ODI reference 10350094) concerns a 2007 NISSAN MAXIMA and was filed on August 17, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 20, 2010. The vehicle had 69,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:linkages:knuckle:spindle:arm, 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 MAXIMA cohort independently describe similar steering:linkages:knuckle:spindle:arm 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 2007 NISSAN MAXIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 NISSAN MAXIMA. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 10 MPH, THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO DECREASE IN POWER. HE RELEASED THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND WHEN DEPRESSING IT A SECOND TIME, THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE CONTACT ASSUMED THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF FUEL, YET THE FAILURE CORRECTED ITSELF. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE WOULD OCCUR OFTEN. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER AND THE DEALER ADVISED HIM THAT THE ABS SENSOR WOULD NEED REPLACING. IN ADDITION, BOTH KNUCKLES AND THE HUB WOULD NEED MODIFICATION. THE DEALER DISABLED THE ABS SYSTEM. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 69,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 69,966.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 807556 |
| ODI Number | 10350094 |
| Date Filed | August 17, 2010 |
| Failure Date | June 20, 2010 |
| VIN | 1N4BA41E77C |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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