Federal complaint record · Nissan Altima · model year 1996

1996 Nissan Altima

Owners submitted 92 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 25th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1994 to 1998 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 33% · group n = 38Electrical · 9% · group n = 11Engine · 9% · group n = 10Powertrain · 8% · group n = 9Speed control · 6% · group n = 7
92
Complaint records on file
33%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 38
25th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 26 model years

Airbags · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags33%

Airbags reports

Nissan Altima · model year 1996

Reports in this group38
Share of classified reports33%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 30 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 31996 Nissan Altima
Brake performance · 13 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 31996 Nissan Altima
Fire or smoke · 9 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 31996 Nissan Altima

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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