We have classified the 2 complaints from 2006 Infiniti M35 about EXTERIOR LIGHTING into the following categories.
Today i was driving my vehicle and the low fuel light came on but the fuel guage showed it still had half a tank, so i went to the gas station and filled it up on when i turned on the car i seen that the fuel gauge its not working, another thing is where it shows what gear your on it seems to be broken like the little screen is broken from in side its hard to explain ill post some pictures so you can see what i mean. also the (afs) on the front left headlight does not work the beam stay's all the way down pointing the ground not staright ahead so i could see clearly whats in front of me. this has occured on the left side head light the right side its working fine. on the first picture you could see the fuel gauge position and om the second picture i took of the navigaton screen where it shows the miles left that i could drive the gauge should be more than half ways. on the 3 picture is where i was saying about the gear screen thats broken from inside, it looks like a tier or somthing. on the fourth picture you could see that the left beam in pointing down instead of staright like the right beam is ive tried adjusting it and even took it to my mechanic to adjust them but it still stays the same.
My infinity m35x 2006 is equipped with cruse control that will automatically maintain the follow distance from the vehicle ahead. if i am using cruse control at a high speed and approach a slow moving vehicle the system will automatically apply the brakes. the deceleration can be very fast and sudden, it often exceeds -5mph per second. the design defect is that the system does not light the brake lights. if i use cruse control to follow in heavy traffic, the system moves from the throttle to the brakes and back again and the brake lights do not light. if somebody was to strike my car in the tail, he might claim my brake lights did not work. the investigator would test my brake lights, he and the other driver would see that they do work. i don't think anybody would think that brake light operation might be conditional on how the car is controlled. i believe the cruse control in my vehicle to be a hazard. i recognize that my car is 10 years old and they probable do not make the same design any more. but do newer designs have the same design defect? it may require additional hardware and money to correct this, therefor it may not be corrected in newer designs and other brands. note: i have not been in a traffic incident related to this defect.
dt: the contact states there was a problem with the headlights. the beam from the lights will show the road for no more than ten to fifteen feet in front of the vehicle. this is because of the computer leveling system positioning the light beam closer to the vehicle than necessary. he feels that under normal driving conditions braking distances would exceed the amount of lighted area. when he contacted the manufacturer, they said that the lights were designed to do this. *ak updated 11/29/2005 - *nm updated 01/11/06. *jb
There is a horizontal band of blackness between the area illuminated by the low beam headlights and the highbeam headlights. this creates a blind spot and a serious potential hazard when driving at night. the high beam head lights appear to be aimed very high; they illuminate the mid and upper sections of trees very well but not the road in front of the vehicle. i returned the car to the dealer who indicated the headlights were properly aimed. furthermore the dealer indicated that the high beams cannot be aimed independent of the low beams. i was referred to infiniti's regional representative. this individual confirmed that there is no separate adjustment for high and low beams. he also indicated his belief that the dealer had properly evaluated my problem. (how he would know this escapes me) as a result i continue to have a vehicle with this hazardous defect putting my safety and that of others in jeopardy. *nm