Model-year matrix

Nissan Titan
which year?

Compare every Nissan Titan model year the EPA recorded, 2004 to 2024. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.

Evidence-led answer

Looking for the best Nissan Titan year—or years to avoid?

The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.

What is the best year for the Nissan Titan?

No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.

Which Nissan Titan years should you avoid?

The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.

01 · More reports to inspect2004

1,046 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.

Open the 2004 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2005

891 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.

Open the 2005 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2006

430 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.

Open the 2006 dossier →

Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.

Read this as evidence, not a ranking.

Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.

Direct comparison

Compare two Nissan Titan model years.

Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.

First model year

2023 Nissan Titan

NHTSA complaint allegations: 17
Combined EPA economy: 17–18 mpg/MPGe
EPA configurations: 3
Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate: $4,200–4,450
Fuel labels: Premium Gasoline

Most-reported component labelspower train 10forward collision avoidance 3service brakes 3

Open the 2023 evidence dossier →

Second model year

2024 Nissan Titan

NHTSA complaint allegations: 14
Combined EPA economy: 16–17 mpg/MPGe
EPA configurations: 3
Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate: $4,450–4,750
Fuel labels: Premium Gasoline

Most-reported component labelspower train 9electrical system 2unknown or other 2

Open the 2024 evidence dossier →

Observed complaint-record difference

2024 has 3 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2023.

This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.

Side by side

Nissan Titan by year.

Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.

Nissan Titan model years with NHTSA complaint totals, most-reported components, EPA fuel economy and configuration counts
Year	Complaints	Most-reported components	Combined MPG	EPA configs	Annual fuel cost	Dossier
2024	14	power train 9electrical system 2unknown or other 2	16–17	3	$4,450–4,750	Dossier →
2023	17	power train 10forward collision avoidance 3service brakes 3	17–18	3	$4,200–4,450	Dossier →
2022	13	power train 7forward collision avoidance 5steering 3	17–18	3	$4,200–4,450	Dossier →
2021	54	power train 25electrical system 9unknown or other 8	17–18	3	$4,200–4,450	Dossier →
2020	21	electrical system 7power train 7engine 4	17–18	3	$4,200–4,450	Dossier →
2019	46	engine 17electrical system 11power train 9	17–18	3	$3,400–3,600	Dossier →
2018	90	engine 45fuel/propulsion system 16power train 16	17–18	3	$3,400–3,600	Dossier →
2017	185	engine 97electrical system 30power train 25	17–18	3	$3,400–3,600	Dossier →
2015	12	air bags 4electrical system 2power train 2	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2014	10	service brakes 3suspension 2unknown or other 2	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2013	11	air bags 2engine 2equipment adaptive/mobility 2	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2012	22	air bags 7structure 5engine 4	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2011	26	unknown or other 4air bags 3electrical system 3	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2010	45	air bags 7service brakes 7service brakes, hydraulic 7	14–15	4	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2009	47	air bags 10fuel/propulsion system 8power train 8	14–15	6	$4,100–4,400	Dossier →
2008	133	power train 29engine 18air bags 14	14	4	$4,400	Dossier →
2007	139	power train 71engine and engine cooling 15service brakes, hydraulic 12	14	4	$4,400	Dossier →
2006	430	power train 198electrical system 46suspension 45	14	4	$4,400	Dossier →
2005	891	power train 491service brakes, hydraulic 70fuel/propulsion system 68	14	4	$4,400	Dossier →
2004	1,046	power train 479service brakes, hydraulic 228engine and engine cooling 87	14	2	$4,400	Dossier →

Evidence snapshot generated August 25, 2026. “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.