1996 Nissan 300Zx

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the vehicle speed control. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Vehicle Speed Control1
000
Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle Bar1
100

What owners reported

Newest filings
Steering › Steering Wheel/Handle BarCrash
Filed May 23, 2000GA

WHILE TRAVELING NOTICED STEERING WHEEL WOULD NOT TURN LEFT OR RIGHT, AND LOST ALL STEERING. ENTIRE STEERING COUPLING FELL OFF VEHICLE. DEALER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED, NISSAN REFUSES TO PAY FOR THE MALFUNCTION. OWNER BELIEVES THAT THE REPAIRS DONE TO FIX THE PROBLEM WERE DONE INCORRECTLY, THE STEERING WHEEL DOESN'T LINE UP EVENLY WITH THE COLUMN, MAY LEAD TO ANOTHER STEERING FAILURE. *ML

Vehicle Speed Control
Filed Jun 27, 1996TX

VEHICLE ACCELERATED UNCONTROLLABLY. *DH

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1990
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1996 — this page2000Routine
19954010Routine
19944010Routine
199312000Routine
19923000Routine
199112000Routine
199019010Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.