Infiniti Qx50 Brakes Problems
19 owner complaints filed with NHTSA across 6 model years.
Complaints by Year
Worst year: 2019. Best year: 2022.
Owner Reports
A representative sample of complaints filed with NHTSA.
This is the 3rd instance of my car rolling backwards down the driveway. Both the first and second instances of uncontrolled rolling happened in 2016. Only the second instance was caught on camera. I shared the video with Infiniti and was...
TL* THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE HER DAUGHTER WAS DRIVING SHE REAR-ENDED A 2019 INFINITI QX50, WHICH ABRUPTLY STOPPED DUE TO THE AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING SYSTEM. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY IN HER DAUGHTER'S V...
THE FORWARD EMERGENCY BREAKING(FEB) WITH PEDESTRIAN DETECTION AND PREDICTIVE FORWARD COLLISION WARNING(PFCW) DID NOT ACTIVATE WHEN I WAS STARTING UP FROM A 4 WAY STOP SIGN INTERSECTION ON A CITY STREET. MY 2019 QX50 WAS IN MOTION WHEN I...
12/12/2017 - DRIVING ON A COUNTY SIDE STREET EAST BOUND, HAD JUST LEFT A 20 MPH SCHOOL ZONE AND ACCELERATED SLIGHTLY. APPLIED BRAKES VERY HARD AT APP 40 MPH WHEN CAR 100 FT. AHEAD STOPPED SUDDENLY. THE VEHICLE DID NOT SLOW DOWN MUCH AT...
3 separate accounts of automatic braking (phantom braking ) has occurred on the last year and electronic emergency brake would not engage 3 times in one day. Worried about rear end collision due to my car braking on its own. Brought to ...
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On 3 different occasions while traveling over 50 mph on the highway, with no other cars around, my Qx50 automatic emergency braking initiated and stopped my car. This is a serious safety issue and I am very lucky I was not rear-ended.
The automatic braking system on my car seems to malfunction when going across the Louisiana/Mississippi bridge. As I was driving the car began to brake but it didn’t come to a complete stop. This put my safety at risk because there wer...
While driving vehicle, randomly vehicle brakes are applied on their own, causing vehicle to suddenly slow down in traffic. Red warning light appears on the dash. This has occurred 6-7 times over the past 2 years. 3 of the times occurred ...
Picked up the car on 5/25, on 6/4 sitting at a red light, forward collision warning and lane assist malfunctions showed up on dashboard. Called Faulkner willow grove where my company leased the car, the set up an appt on 6/17. the next d...
DATING BACK TO NOVEMBER 2019, MY VEHICLE'S AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING HAVE ENGAGED 3 TIMES WITHOUT REASONABLE CAUSE AT SPEEDS THAT VARY FROM 40-70 MPH. THE FIRST TWO INCIDENTS WERE ON NORMAL CITY ROADS GOING APPROXIMATELY 40-45 MPH. THE...
DEAR NHTSA, MY AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING SYSTEM WARNED AND AUTOBRAKED MY VEHICLE DURING MY NORMAL DRIVING WITHOUT ANY SIGNS OF EMERGENCY - NO CARS ARE IN FRONT OF ME ALONG THE WHOLE STREET. LUCKILY, NO ONE WAS HURT. MY WEBCAM CAUGHT I...