2006 Nissan Frontier defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2006 Nissan Frontier. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Fuel smell and loss of motive power
  Defect Petition DP26003 · opened Mar 30, 2026 · still open

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) received a Petition dated February 5, 2026, requesting an investigation into model year (MY) 2006 Nissan Frontier vehicles. The Petitioner alleges that the vehicle poses an imminent fire hazard due to “[a] powerful and persistent odor of raw gasoline” that he says “emanates fro…

• Transmission Failures
  Defect Petition DP12004 · opened Jun 11, 2012 · closed Oct 22, 2016

  On February 29, 2012 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) received a letter petitioning the agency to conduct a defect investigation into MY 2005-2010 Nissan Pathfinder, Frontier, and Xterra vehicles [the subject vehicles] for automatic transmission failures related to failed transmission coolers.…