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2017 Nissan Versa

This year drew an ordinary 131 complaints for a Nissan Versa — the model's median is 204. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.3% of them mention seat, against 3.8% 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.

What the complaints were about

• seat — 15.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (4×).

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

AIR BAG ALERT SIGNAL WILL NOT GO OFF. SEAT BELT LIGHT INDICATOR WILL NOT GO OUT.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 18V551000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 16V724000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 17V275000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

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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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