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Nissan Sentra 2014

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.49 per 1,000

1.3 times this nameplate’s own median · from 77 complaints filed in the first three years, of 380 ever. 95% lower bound 0.38.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.52	52
2009	0.11	10
2010	0.36	32
2011	0.31	32
2012	0.39	43
2013	1.27	150
2014	0.49	77
2015	0.38	73
2016	0.31	64
2017	0.28	60
2018	0.32	69
2019	0.43	85
2020	0.45	63
2021	0.63	70
2022	0.56	57

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 182 complaints

transmission	139	76%
cvt	58	32%
cvt transmission	37	20%
jerking	24	13%
slipping	20	11%
transmission failed	16	9%

Engine 62 complaints

transmission	28	45%
gas	14	23%

Unknown Or Other 58 complaints

transmission

50%

When it breaks

25% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 67,000 miles, from 253 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

3 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 46 complaints about this component over roughly 20 months before an investigation opened.

Occupant Classification System Failure

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10587169 · 10607315 · 10608459 · 10621132 · 10629686 · 10632799

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.