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Engine & cooling

2016 Nissan Frontier Engine problems

Owners have filed 8 complaints about the 2016 Nissan Frontier's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 18% of all its complaints, most recently on June 28, 2024. They describe 0 crashes, 1 fire and 0 injuries. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

Complaints
8
Recalls
0
Crashes
0
Fires
1
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Engine complaints

Engine & cooling

Head gasket blew and it warped the heads at 98,000 miles Replace motor with a 51,000 mile motor and less than 2 months later, motor is knocking inside with broken peices of the motor. I have to replace it again.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11597546
Engine & cooling

The contact owns a 2016 Nissan Frontier. The contact stated that while driving approximately 60 MPH, the vehicle lost motive power and stalled. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact was able to restart the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 90,000.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11466030
Engine & cooling

Engine vibration at low rpm that can't be explained by several mechanics.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11375755
Engine & coolingFuel system

Engine hesitates or stalls on acceleration. When pulling out from a stop engine hesitates to near stall no matter how hard or far you press gas pedal. Extremely dangerous. Intermittent issue, no failure codes when tested. If engine doesn't stall, vehicle is at a stand still even with gas pedal to floor or pumping gas pedal. Is happening all the time, extremely dangerous. Nearly hit by oncoming traffic several times. Dealership has had many reports of same issue, but no solution. I am afraid to drive vehicle.

Filed Incident Engine · Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 11373557
Transmission & drivetrainEngine & cooling

Transmission and brain repair by dealership under warranty 20017, and overheating problem due to radiator in 2020 after expire of warranty, $1000 out of pocket repairs.

Filed Incident Power train · EngineNHTSA 11349599
Electrical systemBody, doors & structureEngine & coolingFire

In motion, pulling into parking stall, when something started to smell like it was on fire, started to see flames coming from motor. Car caught on fire. Police case #19-0773 *dt *dt*jb

Filed Incident Electrical system · Structure · EngineNHTSA 11170646
Engine & cooling

I have replace the serpentine belt, tensor and pulley three times and, after one week start to do the same noise. At the beginning only in the morning, but few days later all the time, even when is on motion.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11166687
Engine & cooling

When the throttle pedal is pressed the engine does not react immediately. Very difficult to pull out into traffic. Very dangerous pulling out into traffic. You never know how long it is going to take for the engine to respond to the throttle position sensor (tps) and accelerate. I have been to the selling dealer 2 times for this, they cannot "duplicate" the issue.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11092116

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