The charger port had some sort of malfunction and my car was burned to the frame. It was parked in my drive way and had been since 8:00 p.m police officers where coming in my front door at around 2:00 a.m. My car was engulfed in flames.
Infiniti G35 fire or smoke problems
11 of the 1,351 owner complaints about the Infiniti G35 describe fire, smoke or burning smell, most of them for the 2003 model year.
- owner complaints
- 11
- worst model year
- 2003
- typical mileage
- 120,000
By model year
- 20081
- 20071
- 20061
- 20053
- 20042
- 20033
Often reported together
What owners say
While driving the vehicle on the highway smoke started coming out of the undercarriage and the vehicle started catching on fire. Had to pull over to get out and wait for the fire department to put it out.
Fuel guage not reading correct level. Fuel needle is fluctuating up and down whenever it wants. Ex1...gas light comes on with needle on e empty...car die...then put gas full til gas is spillin out of car. And needle goes full just under the f full line. Sometime goes by driving and the needle will fluctuates down to half way mark. Shut off car...go shopping and come back start car and needle at 3/4 mark. Drive hm. Shut off. Start car next day and needle at 3/4 mark again. Not accurate as u can tell. After drivin awahile the gas would go down and gas light comes on. Drive home. Turn car off. Nxt morning start car and the needle is at half way to 3/4 way mark gain. This not possible bcause yesterday the needle was low and gas light came on. Now its back at 3/4 mark. Sometime its at 1/2 way. Sometime its at 1/4 mark. Three times my car died on me due to no gas...while the needle is at 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 way. And the gas light did not come on either when it died on me b.c needle was above the e mark. This is a very dangerous and a safety recall issue that needs to b address. Dont wait til some one car get caught on fires! Don't wait til the car die in middle of freeway traffic and end up in a rear end collisions or accidents! Dont wait for tragedy to happen and legal actions! Please the federal safety agency help do recall for this infiniti 2005 sedan g35. And forward this to mfgs. And infiniti! Please help my complaints and others with this vehicles. Please email me or call me with outcome of resolutions! Im very upset b.c I've wasted over $350 replacing the cluater gauge...odometer houaing and both the whole fuel sender units in the gas tank! Tree times! It still fluctuates giving wrong readings of the gas! So upset b.c I had my 10yr & 13yr old daughters in the car with me and we almost got rear ended by drivers. And causes collisions & back up on freeway! Email me results & resolutions!
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infinti g35. While driving 55 MPH, the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration without warning. The accelerator pedal became stuck and the engine revved rapidly. The brake pedal was depressed numerous times before the vehicle came to a stop. The engine was turned off and smoke emitted from underneath the hood. There were no flames visible. After restarting, the vehicle resumed normal operation. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 120,000.
While eating lunch at bojangles in petersburg, va., people inside the restaurant noticed smoke coming out of my car while parked. Fire department was called and fire was extinguished by a volunteer firefighter in area. Fire department arrived afterwards. It appears the seat caught fire unexpectedly. Interior of car also caught fire and was on burning until extinguished.
Driving 70 mile in fwy my car engine just shut off completely I almost died out there because of cars behind me. I calmly changed steering wheel to right side of fwy with left over speed after 5 of vehicle behind me almost crashed me and each other. Turn off engine and started engine few time and it worked so I sent my car to shop and they said it's a 2 of sensor prob. And while he was moving my car, driver side seat switch button was on fire! Fire! What is going on. I would have been killed out there if not for god. I see a lot of people complained on sensor prob with engine shut off, isn't this dangerous to drive???? Risking all of people's lives????
I got my car in april 2013 not a year yet. I was at work when they said the light started to blink and then the alarm started to go off when the security came by around it was smoking and on fire it was coming from the hood. The police and fire station said they think it was a electric problems. I really don't know what I should do now.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 infiniti g35 sedan. The vehicle was parked and had been shut off for approximately 12 hours when it engulfed in flames. The fire began on the dashboard. The fire department extinguished the fire and a police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed but has not been moved from the location. It was not examined for the cause of failure or repaired. The failure and current mileages were unknown.
2006 infiniti g35 coupe was driven 10 miles and parked. Driver returned 7 minutes later to find interior of car on fire. Nyc fire department responded and found the fire had extinguished itself. Air bags were deployed and interior of car was burnt. Fireman suggested that fire may have been caused by a defective seat heater.
Car fire.. My car caught fire while in my office parking lot. I noticed a buzzing noise in my door panel when I rolled my window up. This may be coincidental , 15 minutes later while inside my office I notice my car in flames. The car is a total loss. I had never received any recalls for my car so something is terribly wrong. I was not injured thank god. The fire dep. Said this was the 2nd infinity in 2 weeks they have put out fire on.
Related recalls
Electrical system: software
- What is wrong
- Nissan is recalling 204,361 my 2007-2008 altima, altima hybrid, 350z, 350z roadster, my 2008 altima coupe, rogue, my 2009 murano, and infiniti my 2007-2008 g35 sedan, my 2008 g37 coupe and ex35 passenger vehicles equipped with continental automotive systems' occupant classification system (ocs) control units. A varistor in the ocs control unit located in the passenger seat cushion may have been manufactured out of specification. Under certain conditions, this could cause an interruption of signal between the ocs and the air bag control unit (acu).
- Risk
- This could result in the passenger air bag being suppressed which could fail to provide adequate protection in the event of a crash.
- Remedy
- Dealers will test the signal between the ocs and acu systems using a special tool to check that it is functioning as designed. If necessary, the seat cushion (containing ocs hardware) will be replaced with a new one manufactured to specification. The recall began on november 4, 2008. Owners may contact nissan at 1‑800‑647‑7261 or infiniti at 1‑800‑662‑6200.
Recall number 08V521000 · Recall details
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The model years with the most reports are 2003 (3 complaints), 2005 (3 complaints) and 2004 (2 complaints).
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