Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE | |||
| 05/21/2010 | 170000 | ||
| The fuel level is not accurate. it first started doing this telling me i had a 1/4 tank left, when i ran out of gas in the middle of an interstate. i then put gas in it and sure enough that's what it was. ever since then the car never gives accurate readings, i can fill all the way up and it will only show that it is 3/4 full or such but never is precise. this can be a very big issue for someone that does not have a gas station nearby like it happened to me. | |||
| 12/10/2009 | 86000 | 1 | |
| This morning the car was warming up in front of our house ; it exploded and burned down; the front is completely melted; we were lucky not to have entered the car yet - fire department was called and managed to extinguish the fire before it reached the tank - other wise we would all be dead and our house gone. *tr | |||
| 09/12/2006 | 73964 | 1 | 02/21/2000 |
| Sudden failure of throttle body assembly. dealer says it broke and he has never heard of this happening. although i consider this to be a fuel supply failure, the auto warranty did not cover repairs claiming it was an emissions part and not covered. cost $530.92 to repair. *jb | |||
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE - FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM | |||
| 09/15/2005 | 67000 | 1 | 09/15/2000 |
| 1) normal driving - sel light came on p0304 and rough engine idle 2) intake manifold gasket failed - poor idle - will not pass emission test - 60k miles 3) replaced gasket after finding many other owners had same problem even after 32k miles. nissan should fix this under an extended warranty but they refused. here are details of the issue: there is an engineering or material defect on the ka24de engine in regards to the intake manifold gasket. from reading the posts of dozens of owners it appears it is happening to engines made in the 00-01 time frame. if this were just some random problem then you would expect to see about the same number of posts on p0304 and gasket leaks for any year car. just about all the posts concern specifically 00-01. the first hand evidence i had is when i took off my intake manifold and checked the condition of the gasket. the side with the leak was at cylinder 4. when i took off the gasket, the material at the cylinder 4 side was what i can only describe as baked. it was hard and brittle and would just crack or snap very easily. the closer the gasket was to the number 1 cylinder it remained more pliable. obviously the gasket seems to hold up better closer to cylinder 1 because it is cooler there - that is where the passage for the coolant is. this problem causes a p0304 code to get thrown. that is a misfire at cylinder 4. again, if this were some random problem - couldn't we reasonably expect a normal distribution of the cylinder misfire code from p0301, 302, 303, and 304? but that is not the case. i don't think i have seen any posts on anything other than p0304. there is extra heat around cylinder 4 above what the gasket material is rated for - which is an engine design issue. 2 cars verified so far happen to be california emission vehicles it seems plausible that the extra heat is related to the emission control devices these cars have - specifically the extra cat converter. *jb | |||
| FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER | |||
| 11/12/2009 | 150000 | 1 | |
| I was driving the car and all seemed normal, until i pulled into a gas station to refuel. surprisingly i could not get more than 1/4 gallon into the tank before the pump kicked off and gasoline spit out of the filler neck and all over the ground. my fuel gauge was at about 1/4 tank, so i knew i needed about 11 gallons. i continued to put fuel into the tank at a very slow rate, and the pump kept kicking off and fuel spitting out of the tank filler neck. i finally got 8 gallons into the tank and so i stopped there. shortly after leaving the gas station my check engine light came on. i got home and hook up my code reader, and it returned a code p1441. some problem with the evap system. i did some research and found that nissan dealerships have a service bulletin about this problems dating back quite a few years, but do not want to repair the problem free of charge. dealers want about $100 to analyze the problem and about $400 to repair the car. i believe this could be a big safety issue when people with a 2000 altima try to fuel up their car and gasoline keeps spitting out of the filler neck of the gas tank. *tr | |||