2012 Nissan Juke
This year drew an ordinary 87 complaints for a Nissan Juke — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.1% of them mention accelerate, against 5.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 87 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- accelerate — 16.1% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: accelerate, attempting, slowed, slowed down.
- charge — 12.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: charge, serviced, things, customers.
- covered — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: covered, vin covered.
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
NOTICED GASOLINE SMELL IN CAR; SMELL GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE. FUEL FOUND LEAKING UNDER CAR. CAR TAKEN TO MECHANIC. MECHANIC INVESTIGATED LEAK AND NISSAN JUKE RECALLS. MECHANIC FOUND FUEL LEAK UNDER INTAKE -SEE RECALL 14V683. NISSAN SAYS NOT COVERED BY RECALL.…
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE FROM A COMPLETE STOP, THERE WAS HESITATION AND THE TRANSMISSION BECAME INOPERABLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION FLUID NEEDED TO BE CHANGED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE [VIN]…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V156000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 12V328000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V683000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE 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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