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Model years to avoid

Nissan Juke

What it says about you

Opinion

You bought it for the face. Everyone knows you bought it for the face. It is fine.

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

7 model years on record, 477 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2011 (timing chain). 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.

  • discovered 2012, 2013 peak 6.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2017 1 recall 14 complaints
  2. 2016 1 recall 28 complaints
  3. 2015 1 recall 34 complaints
  4. 2014 2 recalls 59 complaints
  5. 2013 2 recalls 102 complaints
  6. 2012 4 recalls 87 complaints
  7. 2011 timing chain 153 complaints

What does a Nissan Juke 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.