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Engine sensor failure on the 2006 Nissan Pathfinder

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $180–$900
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 28th

When engine sensor failure gets reported

There are 2 reports of engine sensor failure on the 2006 Nissan Pathfinder. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 28th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $180–$900 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 3 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2023, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2017 at 95,000 miles.

By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 6; the 2006 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 124k
  3. 1999 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 49k
  4. 2000 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 75k
  5. 2001 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 76k
  6. 2002 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 80k
  7. 2006 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  8. 2009 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  9. 2011 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  10. 2015 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  11. 2017 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 95k
  12. 2018 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  13. 2020 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 20k
  14. 2022 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  15. 2023 Nissan Pathfinder engine sensor failure 17k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2006 Nissan Pathfinder

Radiator or coolant leak

626 reports median 101k

Fuel gauge or level sensor failure

139 reports median 64k

Other powertrain problem

91 reports median 103k

Other fuel system problem

58 reports median 56k

Other engine problem

46 reports median 104k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 2 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed