CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2016 Nissan Altima shows multiple problem trends, continuing the poor reputation of the 2013-2015 Altima, prompting us to give it our "Beware of the Clunker" badge.
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.
Purchased my Nissan on February 23, 2017... unfortunately I never test drove it and the next day took delivery... two minutes on the road I heard an awful noise... turned out it needed a new wheel bearing... since then they also replaced ball joints on the drivers side.... now when I turn the wheel I hear and feel a clunking noise with what seems like a lot of play... clunking is very apparent when backing up and steering into a parking spot... dealership has actually gone out of there way to assure me that it's normal for Nissan's.. I honestly believe I purchased a car with left front wheel damage and never listed on a car fax... I enjoy driving the car and hope you can help getting this resolved/steering rack replaced.. if you do follow up with this complaint, I'm sure there are records of what they have replaced on the left front wheel.... this has been an ongoing issue, so there's no specific date I noticed this... if you can secure those records you will see my comments when going to the dealership. This dealership has given me great service and hope you can help
While the car has been parked there was a power steering leak unbeknownst to us while the car was parked in the driveway. I checked the reservoir after we returned from a road trip because we saw an excess of fluid on the ground, where the car was previously parked.
Stating briefly auto not in motion turning the steering wheel side to side there is a clanking noise in the steering column...while driving in motion making right / left turns steering column feels kind of slack. Occurrences city and H'way. This was reported to the dealership during a service oil change in September 2017..
Car dangerous hard to steer on free way very dangerous when between 2 car you in the middle, car dip and swerve with light touch of steer wheel, it act as if is have no wheel alignment, and the car front end drag the groung when turning into a drive way very noisy. Wipers at night in a heavy rain you have to stop can not see the road at all.lucky I am a good driver.
The steering wheel comes close to a frozen state, half way when turning left or right which is a serious safety matter. It happened at least 10 times in a month or two(Sept/Oct-2017). I took the car to the myatt Nissan in salisbury, nc. It took them 3 weeks to repair it during which I heard contradicting statements from them. After a week in their shop I was told by one person(West) that they were able to recreate the problem(when one of the technicians drove it). The service manager(roger) denied it never happened, but they changed the electrical steering pump for free anyway though it was 14,000 miles above the warranty. They even documented that they were not able to recreate the problem, but changed the pump any way. The reason I want to report it is of the contradicting statements and their effort to document it as non-issue, but changed the pump anyway. Clearly they are hiding something. Still not sure if the repair resolves the issue as I haven't driven it enough to validate for sure.
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- Seabrook, NH, USA