Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 12/14/2011 | |||
| As i approached a stop sign on a secondary paved highway entering a primary highway, the above vehicle began to skid on a thin layer of gravel laid down on the blacktop for recent ice and snow control. the road was currently clear and dry. i applied the brakes which went halfway to the floorboard without antilock action. concurrently the accelerator maintained the current speed of approximately 20 miles per hour. the vehicle continued through the stop sign on a collision course with an oncoming vehicle from the left moving at approximately 60 miles per hour. without control of my vehicle it continued on its own across the primary highway missing the rear of the oncoming vehicle by a foot or two. the other driver appeared not to be aware of my inability to stop and possibly didn't even realize the incident occurred. fortunately there were no vehicles in the opposite lane coming my direction and i speeded up to clear the highway and continue on the secondary road. at that point my vehicle functioned normally. the brakes worked again and the accelerator appeared to function normally. in essence, from the point of the skid, my vehicle drove itself across the highway. antilock did not engage and the accelerator appeared to simultaneously malfunction. | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - CRUISE CONTROL | |||
| 06/25/2004 | 3900 | 3 | 01/13/2004 |
| I have a 2004 nissan frontier crew cab. the normal crusing rpm is around 2300 on the highway. on the initial date of 6/25/2004, i began to note that when the vehicle was operating on cruise control, during a downshift into a passing gear, such as climbing a grade, the motor increases to 3500 rpms. upon leveling off, the cruise control does not allow the motor to reduce the rpm's back down to crusiing level of 23-2500 rpm. i find myself having to brake or cut off the cruise control to reduce the rpm back to normal. the nissan dealer in asheville north carolina has had this truck on 7/1/04, 7/28/04, and 8/11/04 attempting to fix this problem with no success. the last occasion, they kept the vehicle for over two weeks with no luck. on 9/8/04, the service manager advised me that the problem was a bad code that nissan engineering would have to resolve and he would notify me. seven months later i've heard nothing so i inquired today while my truck was being serviced. he advised that there is still no fix and he has a list of six customers with the same problem/complaint. the acs control module was replaced as well as the actuator and a relay with no success.*ak | |||