2005 INFINITI G35 — Complaint #845378
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION filed March 4, 2011
NHTSA complaint #845378 (ODI reference 10386495) concerns a 2005 INFINITI G35 and was filed on March 4, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 8, 2007. The vehicle had 16,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission, 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 INFINITI G35 cohort independently describe similar power train:manual transmission 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 INFINITI G35 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 INFINITI G35 COUPE. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING 65 MPH WHEN THE CLUTCH PEDAL ABNORMALLY DROPPED TO THE FLOORBOARD CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO BE COME RESISTANT TO DOWNSHIFTING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE THE CLUTCH WAS REPLACED BUT DID NOT REMEDY THE FAILURE. THE CLUTCH MASTER CYLINDER WAS THEN REPLACED BUT TO NO AVAIL. THE FAILURE PERSISTED AND THERE WERE NO FURTHER REPAIRS TO THE VEHICLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 16,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 845378 |
| ODI Number | 10386495 |
| Date Filed | March 4, 2011 |
| Failure Date | March 8, 2007 |
| VIN | JNKCV54E85M |
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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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