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Nissan Maxima 2012

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

0.42 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 25 complaints filed in the first three years, of 107 ever. 95% lower bound 0.26.

Against its own model years

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

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.3215
20090.5628
20100.4425
20110.1811
20120.4225
20130.2313
20140.4021
20160.9147
20170.5838
20180.3821

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

24% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 55,000 miles, from 85 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

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10432916 · 10466671 · 10509925 · 10510978 · 10532278 · 10533667

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 automated checks only, not verified against an external source.