CarComplaints.com Notes: Here's a disturbing trend for the 2002 Nissan Altima: the engine starts burning oil like crazy, the catalytic converter goes bad, the head gasket blows and eventually the entire engine needs replacement. Sound familiar? Like a script from a horror film, these Altimas seem doomed to fail around 95k miles.
10.0
really awful
Crashes / Fires:
3 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
3 / 0
Average Mileage:
73,434 miles
About These NHTSA Complaints:
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The instrument panel is not visible enough for consumer to quickly and safely check the gauges while operating vehicle in daylight. A glance at the instrument panel should be all that is needed to check the gauges. This is not the case. Consumer feels this is a safety hazard that could result in danger if one has to stare longer than a brief momment in checking the gauge temperatures.
Reflections of dashboard into windshield on vehicles with frost interior color are hazardous and excessively obscure drivers vision at all times, pedestrians and other vehicles are sometimes impossible to see. Nlm
- Everett, WA, USA
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