2016 Nissan Versa
This year drew an ordinary 188 complaints for a Nissan Versa — the model's median is 204. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.8% of them mention warning lights, against 4.5% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Nissan Versa, which began in 2012 and ran to 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 188 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 204 |
| Involving a crash | 29 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- warning lights — 12.8% of this year's complaints, against 4.5% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: warning lights, out warranty, severely, referred.
- unsafe — 12.8% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: unsafe, unsafe drive, dept, service dept.
- belt — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: belt, compressor.
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.
What owners wrote
upon noticing that the glass of the rear passenger side brake light bulb was dark, he disassembled the part and he discovered that the plate, the brake light system, and circuit were severely corroded, and water had leaked inside the housing. There were no war…
I RECENTLY PURCHASED A 2016 NISSAN VERSA AND WHEN I DRIVE IT, IT VEERS TO THE LEFT WHICH IS A MATTER OF SAFETY FOR MY FAMILY.. TOOK IT IN TO SERVICE DEPT AND THEY DID AN ALIGNMENT BUT IT IS STILL HAPPENING...I AM RE-THINKING MY DECISION ABOUT THIS CAR BECAUSE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Versa 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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