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What the official records show
For the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder, the NHTSA complaint API returned 890 unique owner complaint records across the catalog variants PATHFINDER when Car Trouble Lab captured this dataset. Those records included 16 reports marked as involving a crash and 1 marked as involving a fire. Injury and death fields summed to 16 injuries and 0 deaths. The NHTSA recalls API returned 11 distinct safety campaigns, including 13V069000, 13V139000, 13V445000, and 14V138000. The captured component evidence profile was POWER TRAIN: 370 tags (42% of unique complaint records), 1 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 1 reported injuries; AIR BAGS: 177 tags (20% of unique complaint records), 6 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 13 reported injuries; ENGINE: 105 tags (12% of unique complaint records), 2 crash-marked, 1 fire-marked, and 4 reported injuries; STRUCTURE: 83 tags (9% of unique complaint records), 0 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 0 reported injuries; SERVICE BRAKES: 66 tags (7% of unique complaint records), 10 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 6 reported injuries. The campaign evidence profile was 13V069000 (AIR BAGS; received 01/03/2013); 13V139000 (SERVICE BRAKES; received 12/04/2013); 13V445000 (SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP; received 17/10/2013); 14V138000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; received 25/03/2014); 14V142000 (POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:COOLING UNIT AND LINES; received 26/03/2014). These are reported-record counts, not a measured failure rate and not a diagnosis of any individual vehicle.
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- NHTSA complaint and recall aggregateNHTSA Consumer Complaints · primary source
- NHTSA complaint and recall aggregateNHTSA Recalls · primary source
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How to interpret the pattern
The most frequently assigned complaint component categories in this captured query were POWER TRAIN (370), AIR BAGS (177), ENGINE (105), STRUCTURE (83), and SERVICE BRAKES (66). Adjacent captured model years reported 2014: 573 complaints and 11 campaigns. These comparisons are raw record totals, not exposure-adjusted rates. One complaint can carry more than one component tag, so category counts should not be added to reproduce the total complaint count. Too few usable positive mileage values were present to publish a median. NHTSA complaint records are owner-submitted and may be incomplete, duplicated before ODI-number deduplication, or unverified. A high count can also reflect how many vehicles were sold and how long they have been on the road. Use this page to choose inspection questions, not to label every 2013 Nissan Pathfinder defective.
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What to check next
Start with the categories that repeat most often, then compare the complaint description and warning symptoms with the actual vehicle rather than ordering a part from a category label. Check the full 17-character VIN in NHTSA's official recall lookup because a model-year campaign list cannot tell whether a particular vehicle is included or whether its remedy was completed. Preserve diagnostic trouble codes and freeze-frame data before clearing them, ask for repair invoices, and obtain a qualified inspection when a symptom affects braking, steering, restraint systems, fire risk, or drivability. Car Trouble Lab does not determine whether a vehicle is safe to drive.