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:
1 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
12,500 miles
About These NHTSA Complaints:
This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
2002 Nissan Altima. The side air bags went off while the consumer was driving. The vehicle was taken to the dealership and they stated it happened because the sensor failed. The air bag light was on before this. The consumer was not injured when this occurred. She was nine months pregnant, and her 2 year old daughter was in the back seat and was not hurt. Also, the passengers in the vehicle were not injured.
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- Adisson, NJ, USA