2011 Nissan Juke
Complaints about this year name timing chain far more often than the model's other years — 23% of them, about 9× the usual rate of 2.5%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 153 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- turbo — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: turbo, cooling, needs replaced, suddenly lost.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- fuel — 29% of complaints, 3× usual
- fuel pressure — 15% of complaints, 6× usual
- sensor — 21% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
FUEL PRESSURE SENSOR NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AND CAR WILL START TO LEAK GAS FUMES CAUSING SICKNESS AND CAR COULD POSSIBLY CATCH ON FIRE. NISSAN ISSUED RECALL BUT ONLY TO CERTAIN VIN #S. MY VIN WAS NOT COVERED AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
I BROUGHT MY 2011 NISSAN JUKE IN FOR THE THE RECENT FUEL SENSOR RECALL ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT MY TIMING CHAIN NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AS WELL. IT APPEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN DRIVING MY CAR FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH A BAD TIMING CHAIN. MY TIMING CHAIN ISSUE WAS APPA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V156000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 11V583000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 12V069000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Juke was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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