2008 NISSAN FRONTIER — Complaint #905152
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL filed February 14, 2012
NHTSA complaint #905152 (ODI reference 10447639) concerns a 2008 NISSAN FRONTIER and was filed on February 14, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 1, 2011. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal, 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 FRONTIER cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly:axle shaft:seal 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 2008 NISSAN FRONTIER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2008 NISSAN FRONTIER. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO NHTSA OPENING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LEAKING REAR AXLE SEALS WHICH RESULTS IN AXLE LUBRICANT SPRAYING ONTO AND BRAKE DISC AND CALIPER. *TGW THE CONSUMER REQUESTED THAT NHTSA OPEN A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO THE AXLE SEAL/BRAKE ISSUES. THE CONSUMER STATED HIS VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN REPAIRED. UPDATED 03/29/12 EMAIL REQ FROM CONGRESSMAN ALTMIRE ON BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT MR. NICHOLAS J. D'AMORE RE LEAKING SEAL DEFECTS IN CERTAIN NISSAN VEHICLES. UPDATED 04/02/12 UPDATED 04/10/12
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 905152 |
| ODI Number | 10447639 |
| Date Filed | February 14, 2012 |
| Failure Date | September 1, 2011 |
Similar POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT:SEAL Complaints for 2008 NISSAN FRONTIER
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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