Federal complaint record · Nissan Altima · model year 2013

2013 Nissan Altima

Owners submitted 2,304 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 93th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 17% · group n = 513Powertrain · 17% · group n = 505Lighting · 15% · group n = 442Suspension · 10% · group n = 291Other · 8% · group n = 250
2,304
Complaint records on file
64,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 1,668 complaints reported mileage
17%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 513
93th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags17%

Airbags reports

Nissan Altima · model year 2013

Reports in this group513
Share of classified reports17%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
423 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
2,304 matched incidents
2014
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,111 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 426 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32013 Nissan Altima
Transmission behavior · 293 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32013 Nissan Altima
Stalling or shutdown · 233 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32013 Nissan Altima

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

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