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2003 INFINITI QX4 — Complaint #903268

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT filed February 3, 2012

NHTSA complaint #903268 (ODI reference 10446380) concerns a 2003 INFINITI QX4 and was filed on February 3, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2012. The vehicle had 123,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:macpherson strut, 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 INFINITI QX4 cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:macpherson strut 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 2003 INFINITI QX4 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 INFINITI QX4
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:MACPHERSON STRUT
State
Pennsylvania
Mileage
123,000 mi

Complaint Description

PASSENGER SIDE STRUT TOWER COMPLETELY RUSTED OUT, THE DEALERSHIP DEEMED THE VEHICLE UNSAFE TO OPERATE. HOWEVER, THE CURRENT RECALL DOES NOT COVER THE PASSENGER SIDE, ONLY THE DRIVERS SIDE AND IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO COVER THE COST OF THE REPLACEMENT. *KB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 903268
ODI Number 10446380
Date Filed February 3, 2012
Failure Date February 1, 2012

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.