AutoUtility currently tracks 6 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2017 Nissan Quest. Powertrain & Transmission issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 2 complaints (33.3% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 cites a fire.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 6 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Powertrain & Transmission (2 reports • 33.3% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Air Bags & Restraints (2), Body & Structure (1)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 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
6
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
0
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2017 Nissan Quest

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

#1 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#2 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 16.7% of complaints

Body & Structure

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 16.7% of complaints

Visibility, Wipers & Glass

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 16.7% of complaints

Electrical System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
🔥 1 fire report
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 Nissan Quest

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

Body & Structure NHTSA ODI ID: #11706538
Filed: 12/22/2025

"Terrible paint peeling on the hood and rear. No accidents or anything that would cause peeling paint. Color is white."

Incident Date: 06/01/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: STRUCTURE
Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #11576410
Filed: 03/09/2024

"Driving our van out of town, we started having problems with the transmission 2 hours into our drive. We have never had problems out of the transmission. When we accelerate from a stop it would give a shutter and sometimes a pop. It was very dangerous turning into the traffic as it was shuttering..."

Incident Date: 12/23/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN
Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11563349
Filed: 01/03/2024

"Air bag light went off beginning of Nov 2023. Took to the dealership, they diagnosed the air bag module and harness as bad. Paid $2k to replace that, took 2 days for part to arrive. Fast forward, mid December 2023, air bag light on again. Take back to dealership and now the passenger side air bag..."

Incident Date: 11/02/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: AIR BAGS
Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #11512336
Filed: 03/17/2023

"I was driving on the roadway when I felt a jolt and my 2017 Nissan Quest suddenly would not accelerate. I was almost rear-ended and had to come to a stop in a moving lane of traffic. I had no warning lights or previous symptoms, and my Quest has about 80,000 miles. I had my vehicle towed to a local..."

Incident Date: 03/15/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN
Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11496208
Filed: 12/06/2022

"The contact owns a 2017 Nissan Quest. The contact stated that all the windows inadvertently failed to operate as needed. The contact also stated that she attempted to operate the HVAC system and noticed an abnormal odor. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and the air filters were..."

Incident Date: 08/06/2018 • Raw NHTSA Component: VISIBILITY,SEAT BELTS
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 Nissan Quest

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2017)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Nissan Quest 12 0 0 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Nissan Quest 13 0 0 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Nissan Quest Current Page 6 0 0 Current
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 Nissan Quest

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 5 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Powertrain NHTSA category: POWER TRAIN 2 0 0 0 0
Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS 1 0 0 0 0
Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 1 0 0
Structure & Body NHTSA category: STRUCTURE 1 0 0 0 0
VISIBILITY,SEAT BELTS 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 (6). 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.