2018 Nissan Kicks
Complaints about this year name check engine far more often than the model's other years — 13% of them, about 33× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 84 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 33 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 33 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- radar — 15.5% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: radar, weather, ongoing, weather conditions.
- starts — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: starts, gauges, takes.
- indicator — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: indicator, sit, car sit.
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.
Also unusual this year
- engine light — 13% of complaints, 33× usual
- sensor — 29% of complaints, 3× usual
- p0101 — 10% of complaints, 24× usual
What owners wrote
The p0101 code has been going on and off of this car since purchase (3 years) the MAF sensor has been replaced twice and the check engine light comes back on after just a few days each time. This poses a safety risk because the car stops at stop lights and tur…
Code P0101 comes up which indicates an issue with the car’s MAF system triggering a check engine light. This is widely known to be a software issue and is chronic in many Nissan Kick’s manufactured around 2018-2020. This is a faulty error code and ends up visi…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V654000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Kicks 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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