2006 NISSAN PATHFINDER — Complaint #851199
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:AUXILLARY TANK filed April 12, 2011
NHTSA complaint #851199 (ODI reference 10395591) concerns a 2006 NISSAN PATHFINDER and was filed on April 12, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 7, 2011. The vehicle had 82,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank, 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 fuel system, gasoline:storage:auxillary tank 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 2006 NISSAN PATHFINDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 NISSAN PATHFINDER. THE CONTACT STATED THAT AFTER TAKING THE VEHICLE IN FOR A REGULAR SERVICE. UPON LEAVING THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ILLUMINATED AND THEN HER FUEL GAUGE STARTED TO MALFUNCTION AND READ EMPTY WHEN SHE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A FULL TANK OF GAS IN THE VEHICLE. SHE TOOK THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER WHEN THE LIGHT ILLUMINATED AND THEY ADVISED HER THAT THE FUEL SENDER UNIT HAD FAILED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED FOR THE FUEL SENDER LEVER. THE MANUFACTURER ADVISED HER THAT HER VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY RECALLS AND THEY OFFERED NO ASSISTANCE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 82,500. UPDATED 05/24/11*LJ
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 851199 |
| ODI Number | 10395591 |
| Date Filed | April 12, 2011 |
| Failure Date | April 7, 2011 |
| VIN | 5N1AR18W26C |
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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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