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Model years to avoid

Nissan Sentra

What it says about you

Opinion

First car, or careful car, or both. It gets you there. Nothing about this decision was wrong and nothing about it was interesting.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 4,277 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (radio), 2013 (pull). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • steering 2007, 2021, 2022 peak 28.8% of that year's complaints
  • radar 2018, 2019 peak 32% of that year's complaints
  • malfunction 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 22.1% of that year's complaints
  • battery 2011, 2021 peak 26.4% of that year's complaints
  • use 2019, 2022 peak 20% of that year's complaints
  • cylinder 2007, 2008 peak 8.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 1 recall 13 complaints
  2. 2025 4 recalls 26 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 34 complaints
  4. 2023 1 recall 19 complaints
  5. 2022 2 recalls 80 complaints
  6. 2021 3 recalls 129 complaints
  7. 2020 4 recalls 204 complaints
  8. 2019 radio 423 complaints
  9. 2018 2 recalls 356 complaints
  10. 2017 3 recalls 230 complaints
  11. 2016 6 recalls 267 complaints
  12. 2015 3 recalls 350 complaints
  13. 2014 5 recalls 380 complaints
  14. 2013 pull 638 complaints
  15. 2012 0 recalls 180 complaints
  16. 2011 2 recalls 142 complaints
  17. 2010 3 recalls 144 complaints
  18. 2009 1 recall 55 complaints
  19. 2008 3 recalls 167 complaints
  20. 2007 1 recall 154 complaints
  21. 2006 6 recalls 116 complaints
  22. 2005 6 recalls 170 complaints

What does a Nissan Sentra say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.