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Nissan Altima 2010

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

0.30 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 64 complaints filed in the first three years, of 392 ever. 95% lower bound 0.22.

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.

Electrical System 78 complaints

button	21	27%
push	19	25%
push button	12	16%

Power Train 75 complaints

cvt	18	24%
cvt transmission	15	20%
floor	10	14%
hours	10	14%

Unknown Or Other 70 complaints

dashboard	29	41%
melting	28	40%
glare	24	34%
windshield	20	28%
dashboard melting	17	24%
sticky	17	24%

When it breaks

28% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 54,000 miles, from 282 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

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Pedestrian alert sounds

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:

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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.