Nissan Frontier Complaints

223 consumer complaints on file.

#11606689August 6, 2024
STEERING, SUSPENSION, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
2024 Nissan vehicle was sold from Rock Hill Nissan with open voluntary recall on FRONT RH LOWER LINK on 7.18.2024. DEALER RESPONSIBILITY It is the dealer’s responsibility to check Service COMM or Dealer Business Systems (DBS) National Service History for the campaign status on each vehicle falling within the range of this voluntary safety recall which for any reason enters the service department. This includes vehicles purchased from private parties or presented by transient (tourist) owners and vehicles in a dealer’s inventory. Federal law requires that new vehicles in dealer inventory which are the subject of a safety recall must be corrected prior to sale. Failure to do so can result in civil penalties by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. While federal law applies only to new vehicles, Nissan strongly encourages dealers to correct any used vehicles in their inventory before they are retailed. Repair was complete on 7.28.2024 at Nissan of Gastonia. it took 4 hours. I'm unable to locate the paperwork but can request from dealership.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11605942August 1, 2024
SERVICE BRAKES, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
While towing a travel trailer the 7 blade tow wiring harness failed. Harness shorted out melding the connection and blowing replaceable fusible link (PN 24 370-C9906). Main wiring harness plug end melted and could have cause a fire.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11605453July 30, 2024
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, SERVICE BRAKES, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
The Nissan Frontier (and perhaps other Nissan vehicles employing the same system) equipped with the 'Intelligent Cruise Control' (ICC) exhibits dangerous behavior when a followed vehicle comes to a complete stop with ICC enabled. When this occurs, the Nissan will come to a complete stop, then a warning chime will sound and the vehicle will immediately start moving quickly forward. Since the ICC brings the vehicle to a stop very close to the followed vehicle, if the driver is thinking the ICC will hold the vehicle in a stationary position, it is possible that this behavior could result in the Nissan rear-ending the followed vehicle. This is the result of a flaw in the design of the Nissan Intelligent Cruise Control that releases the brake with little warning when the traffic in front of the vehicle is stopped. A proper design would hold the brake until some manual driver action is taken such as physically pressing the accelerator or the brake. My personal experience was that I was on an Interstate freeway in very slow traffic. This was the first time I had the ICC enabled in slow and go traffic. It was working fine and, when the traffic came to a complete stop, it properly stopped behind the vehicle in front of me. Then, to my shock, my Nissan beeped and started to accelerate forward nearly rear-ending the vehicle in front of me. Luckily, I was able to press the brake in time to avoid a collision, but this is a flawed design and represents an unnecessary danger to the Nissan as well as followed vehicles.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11603560July 20, 2024
POWER TRAIN
2024 New Nissan Frontier Pro 4x was purchased on 07/10/2024. On 07/18/2024 I was driving on the freeway and exited coming to the cross street which I needed to make left hand turn on. I was behind one other vehicle, when the street signal turned green for our lane the vehicle in front made its lh turn I waited as another car approached and after it passed I started to make my left hand turn, I felt a hesitation on my speed like the transmission was slipping thinking this isn't right. The very next day again during a turn it happened again this time while a vehicle was approaching from the the opposite direction, my vehicles hesitates during the turn with on coming traffic which could result in an accident. I spoke to the salesman the next day who told me to bring it to the service dept the following day on 07/20/2024. I arrived and the service advisor who was aware of my complaint came out and wanted to drive it. He drove and I was passenger and he was able to reproduce the problem 2-3 times during the test drive all the time explaining to me that this was a transmission shift problem and that the hesitation was due to the transmission trying to find the correct gear either higher or lower and that Nissan is aware of the problem and is working on a solution. Back at the dealership he took the back to have service dept document my complaint, but it comes back as "no problems found at this time, vehicle drives as designed". There were no lights, no warnings, no accidents in the few hundred miles I've driven, but how long until it happens. Myself and or any others with me should not have there life's put in jeopardy due to a transmission shift software problem that the factory is and more than likely was aware of from the beginning. And then the dealership makes no mention of the service advisor duplicating the complaint during test drive on the service ticket but advised me to do this complaint. Now that's customer service (sar)
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11602901July 17, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
This first appeared on or about 7/2/24. Saw dealership on 7/9/2024. First driving the cruise control failed and showed malfunction. The next morning truck started but numerous things didn’t work like Radio and rear emergency braking. Rear braking was a Malfunction. Also trip A/B were erased.on 7/9/24. Dealer found some previous codes and said might be due to storage switch issue. But the codes seem to point at a distant sensor but stated it could have happened due to low battery volts. Now on may 29th I requested the battery to be load tested because the A/B trip meters had reset twice. Never saw the results of that test. Back in early May I put the battery on the charger due to it showing lower voltage. Battery was at 50 percent at time of charge. Truck sat on lot from Aug 23 till march 27-24 when I purchased it. sorry about going backwards. So dealer stated on July 9th that codes found were old (3556 miles) cleared and drove truck 3 miles with no problems. On 7/11 failed again reported it to dealership. On 7/14 failed again. All failures were with forward collision system. On 7/16 dealer said no codes drove truck no issues so they wouldn’t do anything else , even though it’s a possible safety issue even though I had documented pictures and text messages sent to dealer. They needed it to happen when they drove it. 30 mins later driving home malfunctioned again called dealership immediately on the side of the freeway to report this issue again. Response was a number for a tow truck and it didn’t matter because they weren’t driving the truck. This resets every time the truck is turned off. I explained numerous times that it’s intermittent, that’s the issue and why I have everything documented. So as for now I have a system that malfunctions with cruise control on or not. Truck has 4000 miles on it. Dealer won’t do anything due to it won’t malfunction in their procession. Currently at a loss.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11602838July 17, 2024
POWER TRAIN
On July 15 2024 my 2023 Nissan Frontier died while running. I had stopped briefly and the entire engine completely died. I attempted to re-stared the truck multiple times. Once the tow truck driver got there he jump started my vehicle which resulted in it finally turning on. I advised my service advisor of this and the vehicle was towed to the dealer. My service advisor had the battery tested and stated everything was normal but they did see a code for “low voltage”. The service advisor said there was nothing he could do for me since the battery appeared fine and they could not replicate the issue. Thank god I was not in a dangerous area and could push my vehicle. I am afraid this problem will happen again since they did nothing to fix the issue and could not diagnose the problem I feel unsafe driving this vehicle.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11602493July 15, 2024
UNKNOWN OR OTHER, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Not a critical safety problem but truck has reoccurring low voltage.. most recent are July 11,13 and 15. Dealership will have my truck on July 30 for inspection, oil change. Truck has 3000 miles. Next problem is the trucks camera for backing and forward movement. Screen is not showing all views and any view is reversed picture. Camera faulty in park, reverse and forward. Faults started occurring on July 13 2024. Truck had 2985 miles. Dealer will check the camera on July 30. This truck has a history of electrical problems. At the dealer for those on 9-26-23 at 447 miles. 10-17 -23 at 662 miles. Dealer replaced the engine room harness at 916 miles on 11-02-23.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11600450July 9, 2024
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
The trucks, automatic emergency braking system activated, causing an accident that otherwise would not have occurred. Prior to this incident - Forward collision warning, rear cross traffic, and blind spot warning lights would activate episodically.
Crash:
Yes
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11598075July 1, 2024
STEERING
Theres a metallic click like something loose in the power steering and rack & Pinion. Im not the only one with this issue and nissan is not doing anything. Theres Reddit threads and facebook groups about. Some people have gotten their entire Steering Rack replace and others like myself, not. Link to reddit: [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11596876June 26, 2024
STEERING
Unknown clicking noise that occurs randomly while driving from steering column.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11593632June 11, 2024
STRUCTURE:BODY, ELECTRICAL SYSTEM, UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Some mechanism in the door is bad. I get locked out of the vehicle when the truck is unlocked. On multiple occasions this door and truck will try to lock itself with the keys still inside (the warning alarm will go off). To get back into the truck I have to lock the door and unlock it even though the door was unlocked to begin with. If the situation were to arise where this door is stuck closed with the keys inside the vehicle, it can cause many issues for the owner/operator (This happened to me once, but the other side was not jammed fortunately). I have brought this vehicle back to the dealership many times and they have not fixed the problem.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11590466May 23, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
The screen that displays the back up camera and navigation system turns off randomly and often.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11589283May 17, 2024
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
The cruise control on the vehicle is dangerous. When driving through rolling hills the vehicle does not keep a consistent speed. When it loses speed it puts the vehicle in overdrive accelerates to 4500 RPM to speed the vehicle up to the cruise setting. The danger is while on back roads while cresting a hill or rounding a curve the vehicle feels totally out of control. The problem is not limited to back roads, it also occurs while driving the interstate highway. The only way to stop the vehicle during this process is to cancel the cruise control. The acceleration is so violent that it pushing you back in your seat and your head is pushed into the headrest. Ive been on Frontier forums and many people have experienced the same condition. Seems to lie in the newer 9 speed transmission trucks. Seems Nissan does not acknowledge the problem. Needs a Firmware update.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11589279May 17, 2024
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Backup camera not engaging when in reverse gear. Backup camera is still visible thru the settings menu. Infotainment screen stays in normal state when switching to reverse gear.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11588674May 14, 2024
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
The contact owns a 2024 Nissan Frontier. The contact stated while driving 76 MPH with the Adaptive Cruise Control feature activated, the contact attempted to pass a semi-truck; however, the vehicle failed to accelerate as needed. The contact stated that the vehicle fishtailed. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer but was not diagnosed. The contact stated that the dealer advised the contact that the failure was not a known failure. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 2,000.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11587379May 7, 2024
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Infotainment Center which includes rear camera view. Sometimes up to a one minute delay in the system turning on. The dealer has updated the system several times. It may help for awhile but the problem always returns.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11584163April 19, 2024
AIR BAGS
Passenger airbag warning light is on and will not turn off on the panel after 7 seconds, as the Owner Manual states. This has been happening for 3 days so far. I has never turned off since it was first noticed.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11583935April 18, 2024
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
Climbing a hill the cruise control goes crazy and the RPMs suddenly exceed 5000+. Scared the hell out of me and could certainly be dangerous especially on rainy roads. Many owners are reporting this issue on the Nissan Frontier Owners forum - example here: [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11582219April 10, 2024
STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS
See attached document for complaint
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0
#11581323April 5, 2024
POWER TRAIN
The contact owns a 2023 Nissan Frontier. The contact stated while attempting to start the vehicle, the vehicle failed to start-up. The contact stated that several attempts were needed before the vehicle started. The contact stated that the "electronic shift and key fob" warning lights were illuminated. The contact had the vehicle towed to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed and determined that the transmission was not shifting into park (P), and that the transmission needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure. The contact researched online and related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V671000 (Power Train) however, the VIN was not included. The failure mileage was approximately 19,000.
Crash:
No
Fire:
No
Injuries:
0
Deaths:
0

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