2017 INFINITI QX80 Engine Problems
3 NHTSA complaints on file
Engine Issues in the 2017 INFINITI QX80
3 engine complaints have been filed with NHTSA for the 2017 INFINITI QX80. Of these, 0 involved a crash, 0 involved a fire, and 0 resulted in injury.
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Crashes
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Fires
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Injuries
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Deaths
All Engine Complaints
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 immediate danger. After replacing a burned up alternator and battery twice it was found the battery current sensor was bad.
This is a very common and well-known issue with 2017 Infiniti QX 80 Vin number [XXX] The car RPMs flutter between 1000 RPMs to 2500 RPMs due to the TCM and EC M/ECU TCU failure to the transmission causing terrible gas mileage vehicle stalls in traffic which can cause accidents and has happened over 10 times to me I have called and reported this as well with you all Infiniti will not earn up to the fact that there is a fault and needs to replace the TCU/ECU/ECM/TCM in order to fix the issue I have an extended warranty and I’ve had to pay infinity dealership over $800 now for three different times for them to reflash these modules which does not correct the problem for longer than a week going back to the same issue it’s been an ongoing problem since we have them in the vehicle and I...
I TRIED TO OPEN THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE AND I COULD NOT SINCE I DID NOT PRESS LONG ENOUGH. THEN I TRIED TO DO THE SAME FROM INSIDE THE VEHICLE BUT AGAIN I COULD NOT SINCE AGAIN I DID NOT HOLD THE BUTTON LONG ENOUGH(I BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE FOR MY WIFE AND I WAS DRIVING IT FOR THE SECOND TIME DUE TO SNOW). I THOUGHT MAYBE I SHOULD TURN OFF THE VEHICLE AND TRY AGAIN SINCE MY LOGIC WAS IF THE TRUCK IS RUNNING DUE TO SAFETY REASON THE BACK DOOR MIGHT NOT BE OPENING. AS SOON AS I TURNED OFF THE CAR WITH IT STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS SINCE IT WAS ON SLIGHT SLOPE. OUR 3 DAUGHTERS WERE NEARBY AND I WAS SCARED THEY MIGHT BE NEAR THE BACK SIDE BUT THANK GOD THEY WERE ON SIDE OF THE TRUCK. I KEPT RUNNING WITH THE TRUCK TILL I...
Other 2017 INFINITI QX80 Problem Areas
Air Bags
5 complaints
Unknown Or Other
4 complaints
Electrical System
3 complaints
Forward Collision Avoidance Automatic Emergency Braking
2 complaints
Service Brakes
2 complaints
Engine And Engine Coolingengineengine Control Module Ecuecm
1 complaint
Power Train
1 complaint
Steering
1 complaint
Structurebody
1 complaint
Suspension
1 complaint
Vehicle Speed Control
1 complaint
Visibilitywiper
1 complaint