AutoUtility currently tracks 17 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2017 Infiniti QX80. Air Bags & Restraints issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 7 complaints (41.2% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 1 reports one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 17 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Air Bags & Restraints (7 reports • 41.2% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Electrical System (5), Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (4)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 1 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
17
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
1
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2017 Infiniti QX80

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 41.2% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

7 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 1 injury report entry
#2 Problem Area 29.4% of complaints

Electrical System

5 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 23.5% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 23.5% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 11.8% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2017 Infiniti QX80

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11750189
Filed: 07/14/2026

"Airbag light came on out of the blue. No accidents or anything done to cause light to come on just random. Was advised by dealership “ FOUND CODE B0020 SIDE MODULE OPEN IN DRIVER SEAT AIR BAG, CODE IN PAST WHICH REQUIRES AIR BAG CONTROL UNIT REPLACEMENT-- NOTE AIR BAG SYSTEM IS DISABLED WHILE LIGHT..."

Incident Date: 07/10/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: AIR BAGS
Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11727548
Filed: 03/27/2026

"Vehicle acting as a non conforming testing asset running in Factory Debug Mode (Unit ID: 01). This also shows and caused systemic U1000 Electrical Network Jam from an obsolete/unconfigured 2G TCU. Critical Failures: Airbags disabled showing current codes B0022-13(Left), B002A-13(Right) prove the..."

Incident Date: 01/14/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,AIR BAGS,LANE DEPARTURE
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11720228
Filed: 02/24/2026

"Odometer Fraud. The contact purchased a 2017 Infinity QX80. The contact discovered a mileage discrepancy after the purchase. The vehicle was a private sale. The seller had an LLC. At the time of purchase, the mileage was 90,743. It was later discovered that the mileage on the Title was 175,074 on..."

Incident Date: 02/19/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11710989
Filed: 01/14/2026

"Automatic emergency braking system phantom braking; Several different times now, on the road; at low speed causing sudden stopping in traffic; after pulling over the emergency stopping system turned off but the transmission locked up in one gear; drive on in a fixed gear and after several miles..."

Incident Date: 12/27/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE
Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11700266
Filed: 11/19/2025

"Made a right hand turn and vehicle shut off in traffic barley got into turn lane and vehicle died in the middle of the road, just got lucky a state trooper was behind us to hold traffic off.. would not restart no power, dead battery, put a jumper on the vehicle and it started enough to get out of..."

Incident Date: 06/20/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,ENGINE
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Infiniti QX80

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Infiniti QX80 18 1 2 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Infiniti QX80 14 0 1 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Infiniti QX80 Current Page 17 1 1 Current
2018 Infiniti QX80 9 1 2 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Infiniti QX80 20 0 2 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Infiniti QX80 6 0 2 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Infiniti QX80 7 0 3 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Infiniti QX80 1 0 1 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Infiniti QX80 2 0 1 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Infiniti QX80 2 0 1 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Infiniti QX80 8 1 4 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Infiniti QX80 0 0 2 View 2026 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2017 Infiniti QX80

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 13 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS 5 0 0 0 0
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,AIR BAGS,LANE DEPARTURE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
POWER TRAIN,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
SERVICE BRAKES,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
STEERING,STRUCTURE,UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
SUSPENSION,AIR BAGS 1 1 0 1 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
UNKNOWN OR OTHER,ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Visibility & Wipers NHTSA category: VISIBILITY/WIPER 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (17). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.