all vehicles · every Pathfinder year · method

Nissan Pathfinder 2015

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

0.94 per 1,000

1.6 times this nameplate’s own median · from 76 complaints filed in the first three years, of 321 ever. 95% lower bound 0.73.

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	0.60	20
2009	0.19	5
2010	0.25	5
2011	0.42	10
2013	4.83	428
2014	2.17	182
2015	0.94	76
2016	0.37	30
2017	0.81	66
2018	0.50	37
2019	0.32	21
2020	0.23	13
2022	1.83	91
2023	1.28	83

What owners describe

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

Unknown Or Other 79 complaints

fan	33	42%
cooling	18	23%
cooling fan	17	22%
radiator	15	19%
assembly	13	17%
fan assembly	12	16%

Power Train 77 complaints

cvt	23	30%
cvt transmission	12	16%
gas pedal	10	13%

Engine 74 complaints

fan	37	50%
cooling	26	35%
cooling fan	23	31%
radiator	20	27%

When it breaks

29% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 45,000 miles, from 221 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.

Hood Latch/Bell Crank Assembly

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:

10705264 · 10730274 · 10731066 · 10734667 · 10761234 · 10761849

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.