Nissan Frontier owners have reported a total of 4,259 problems for their cars built in the 29 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Nissan Frontier. The 2006 Nissan Frontier cars have the most problems reported (799 problems).
The following chart shows the 33 most common problems for Nissan Frontier cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's power train (942 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's engine and engine cooling (551 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Nissan Frontier of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Frontier model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Nissan Frontier model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
| Frontier Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 174 | 88,514 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 25 | 23,923 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 29 | 28,290 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 37 | 108,889 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 28 | 68,452 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 44 | 73,398 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 56 | 99,763 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 47 | 62,598 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 50 | 62,669 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 63 | 52,306 | 13 | |
| 2012 | 97 | 78,134 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 83 | 47,385 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 74 | 45,048 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 43 | 23,018 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 184 | 48,901 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 668 | 64,900 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 799 | 75,329 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 702 | 64,252 | 21 | |
| 2004 | 87 | 80,297 | 22 | |
| 2003 | 90 | 68,370 | 23 | |
| 2002 | 145 | 91,014 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 143 | 101,283 | 25 | |
| 2000 | 217 | 135,809 | 26 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Nissan Frontier is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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| ☘ Frontier Service Bulletins |
| ⚑ Frontier Safety Recalls |
| ☤ Frontier Defect Investigations |
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