Other engine problem on the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder
1 crash 1 fire 1 injury 3 of the 64 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder report other engine problem at a median of 7,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 700 miles and a quarter after 27,500 miles, from 50 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 300 miles at the tenth percentile to 60,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 60,159 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
84% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 345 miles | 725 miles | 6,500 miles | 27,292 miles | 60,504 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash, 1 a fire and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 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 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 7,500 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
After fueling my brand new vehicle for the first time, I headed out and noticed smoke around my vehicle. A neighboring vehicle motioned for me to roll down my window and said I had fluid that looked like anti freeze pouring out from beneath my 2013 pathfinder. I tried to pull over but the SUV would no longer accelerate forward and I was stuck in the middle of the road with my children. Not knowing why my vehicle was smoking, I contacted the fire department. Some people stopped to help and push the vehicle from the street. The fire department arrived and the dealership was contacted. A towing company was sent out. I was told the towing company's have been towing these brand new vehicles alot, some that were driven off the lot and had to be towed. After researching this issue, I found there are several people having the same issue and this issue was under a law suit for the 2005-2010 model pathfinders. It doesn't look like nissan has resolved the issue just yet. *tr
While I was driving with my 5 year old and 5 month old my 2013 pathfinder on 12/29 (which I had for 1 month)it started feeling like it was missing gears and sputtering. The rpms started to rev up between 4000-5000 and was only going about 45 MPH and the vehicle was not going any faster, and the car was jerking as I was driving it. I stopped and turned the car off hoping it was just a fluke but when I stared it would not move when I was in reverse I then put in drive again it was doing the same thing but this time the check engine light came on, and I even pressed the cruise to see if that would work and it wouldn't work either. I brought it to the dealership and they told me it was a transmission module chip that needed to be replaced. I waited 10 days and finally they said it was ready. I picked it up and literally turned around because it was doing the exact same thing except this time as I took my foot of the pedal the vehicle did not decelerate and continued to drive at 60mph without me pressing the gas until I hit the brake it started to slow down, thank god, all while my baby is in the car with me. Since then it has been at…
Driving on the highway @55mph the engine began to rev from low to very high rpms. All of a sudden cabin began to fill with smoke and lost complete power to drive train. Move to the side of road and avoided a huge accident with 2 children on board. *tr
Also reported on the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder
Other powertrain problem
CVT failure
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other body or interior problem
Complete transmission failure
Other visibility problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 64 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other engine problem happen on the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder?
Across 50 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 7,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 700 miles and a quarter after 27,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder?
64 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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