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2012 Nissan Maxima: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2012 Nissan Maxima. NHTSA has 76 complaints on file for this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2012 Nissan Maxima. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 76 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

76 complaints, 91 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2012 Nissan Maxima
  • All 2012 vehicles
2012 Nissan Maxima: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2012 MaximaAll 2012 vehiclesMaxima, all yearsMentions
Air Bags252.711355.723
Electrical System131.9134.910312
Power Train131.9110.4293.112
Unknown or Other109.960.426.610
Steering76.996.760.97
Engine65.9127.737.46
Seats65.99.316.16
Structure444337.84
Visibility3311.323.83
Engine and Engine Cooling119.371.81

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 17.

Complaints that report a crash
6
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
7
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
11 May 2019

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2012 Nissan Maxima, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 19 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2012 Nissan Maxima: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/nissan/maxima/2012/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Nissan Maxima have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the Nissan Maxima, model years 1982 to 2020. None of them names the 2012 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2012 Nissan Maxima name most often?
Air Bags: 23 of 91 component mentions, or 252.7 per 1,000. For all 2012 vehicles the figure is 113 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2012 Nissan Maxima open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.