general problems of the 2000 Nissan Quest

My car had no previous problems as could be seen. I bought it off the lot at 72,000 miles. I stopped in the left hand lane and the car just stalled. I saw black smoke and thought I was overheating but there when I looked it was not. I was at a very busy intersection with my 10 year old daughter in the car. I decided even though it wasn't overheating to take a look at the engine. When I got out under the hood was all orange from fire. It then proceeded to blow up the whole inside and it took about 10-15 mins. For the fire dept. To put the roaring fire out. I thank god we were not inside. I lost the whole entire car.

I had Nissan Quest 2000, minivan, for five years. It has only 135k miles. We took good care of it and keep it well maintained. In 01/03/2012 I was picking up my kids from school, in the school parking lot I smelled something weird I thought it from outside, thin one lady waved to me that there is something wrong in my car. The smoke was start coming out of the front trunk of the car. I looked at the temperature reader, it was normal, no overheating. I turned off the car and left with my 4 kids. I thought it will stop smoking, but the smoke continue to increase, and we start see some fire. The school called the fire department, they were there in 3 min. They were able to control the fire but after it made a complete damage. The officer in the fire department took too many pictures, and he said they can’t tell the cause of fire. I just don’t understand how and why this happens, this kind of car supposed to serve for much longer than that, it has only 135k mile on it. Many people told me that could be due to malfunction or defect in manufacture. I field this complains and wish there will be investigation in this incident so nobody could have the same experience or worst. Thanks god I am safe with my children but I lost my van.

Back on July as I was on the hwy, set my cruise control, for the first time since I've owned my Nissan, at 55mph, the speedometer stopped working, my right headlight went out. Now ever since then, it has gotten worse, I have replaced the right headlight 3 times . I've noticed that when I grab the handle of the turn signal it crackles, and causes the headlights to flicker, and the odometer doesn't work when the speed control is on zero while driving.

As I was driving on city street, my car started accelerating on its own. When I shifted into neutral, the rpm shot up to 4-5000. The breaks were too hard and failed to stop the car until it was in neutral. The mechanic found the origin of the problem in a faulty cruise control. Eventually the Nissan dealership disconnected the cruise control. This happened last week and so far I have not experienced any other problem. Dealership believes that this was a failure of an electronic component as a normal wear and tear. I disagree, since the problem also caused the motor mounts to crack and I had to repair those.

For the fourth time in as many months, my headlight has gone out. It has yet to be the light that is the problem. It seems the connector to the light is the problem. This has happened three times on the passenger side and once on the driver's side. I could understand even two events, once on each side. Four times is too many. I usually drive alone, most of the time only to and from work. However, having headlights that are not dependable is not a comfort to me. My mechanic said the supplier told him he had "lots of this particular part". This tells me that I am not the only one, I just may be the only one complaining. However, if this were your daughter would you want her driving a car that has no dependable headlights.

While driving 50 mph the headlights failed. This caused poor visibility to the consumer. The consumer took the vehicle to the mechanic to have it inspected and was told the electrical system had failed.