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Nissan Altima 2014

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.76 per 1,000

2.6 times this nameplate’s own median · from 249 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1113 ever. 95% lower bound 0.66.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.43	117
2009	0.32	76
2010	0.30	64
2011	0.16	40
2012	0.24	70
2013	1.78	556
2014	0.76	249
2015	0.60	202
2016	0.29	94
2017	0.25	70
2018	0.47	110
2019	0.36	76
2020	0.29	51
2021	0.18	22
2022	0.10	12
2023	0.16	21

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Exterior Lighting 299 complaints

dim	186	62%
are dim	72	24%
see night	45	15%
extremely dim	35	12%
are extremely	25	8%
projector	24	8%

Power Train 209 complaints

cvt	58	28%
cvt transmission	35	17%
new transmission	22	11%
transmission needed	18	9%
middle	18	9%
shut off	18	9%

Air Bags 208 complaints

stays	26	13%
passenger air	26	13%
adult	21	10%
light stays	18	9%
reset	17	8%
indicating	14	7%

When it breaks

28% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 64,300 miles, from 727 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

5 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 283 complaints about this component over roughly 32 months before an investigation opened.

Occupant Classification System Failure

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10545345 · 10552095 · 10555928 · 10559829 · 10562596 · 10564295

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.