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Model years to avoid

Nissan Versa

What it says about you

Opinion

You bought the cheapest new car in the country on purpose and you were not embarrassed, which is a kind of confidence most people cannot manage.

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

19 model years on record, 5,368 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2014 (shifting), 2012 (amount time), 2010 , 2009 (coil springs), 2008 . 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.

  • lights 2016, 2020 peak 28.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2025 0 recalls 11 complaints
  2. 2024 1 recall 94 complaints
  3. 2023 1 recall 37 complaints
  4. 2022 0 recalls 20 complaints
  5. 2021 3 recalls 31 complaints
  6. 2020 2 recalls 64 complaints
  7. 2019 1 recall 26 complaints
  8. 2018 2 recalls 57 complaints
  9. 2017 3 recalls 131 complaints
  10. 2016 0 recalls 188 complaints
  11. 2015 1 recall 422 complaints
  12. 2014 shifting 673 complaints
  13. 2013 1 recall 204 complaints
  14. 2012 amount time 486 complaints
  15. 2011 7 recalls 268 complaints
  16. 2010 8 recalls 534 complaints
  17. 2009 coil springs 1,006 complaints
  18. 2008 8 recalls 762 complaints
  19. 2007 9 recalls 354 complaints

What does a Nissan Versa 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.