CarComplaints.com Notes: Here's a disturbing trend for the 2002 Nissan Altima: the engine starts burning oil like crazy, the catalytic converter goes bad, the head gasket blows and eventually the entire engine needs replacement. Sound familiar? Like a script from a horror film, these Altimas seem doomed to fail around 95k miles.

10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
0 miles

About These NHTSA Complaints:

This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.

So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.

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2002 Nissan Altima Owner Comments

problem #1

Jan 102009

Altima

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

This isn't fair. 2002 Nissan Altima. 5900 miles. Man this car is junk, Nissan should reimburse people about that, work car ever. And I notice everyone have the same problem. The car stall, camshft problem.. something need to be done. Its not safe when U driving and car die on you.

- North Lauderdale, FL, USA

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