Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUSPENSION | |||
| 03/14/2013 | 37343 | ||
| Within days of buying the new car in 2009, i noticed a loud, clunking squeek and a pop from around my front wheels when i would make a turn after slowing down to a stop. this had been happening during the entire 3.5 years that i have had the car, so i figured it was normal and harmless because the car was already doing it brand new (right now there are still only 37,343 miles on the vehicle, i park it in my garage, and it has had no accidents.) however, last night, the sound seemed to be louder and looser near the front-right wheel. then this morning i drove out of my neighborhood and as i began accelerating to 50 mph, a large piece of metal flew out violently from under my car. i was able to find it in the roadway, so i backed up and inspected the part. it is the bottom coil of the coil spring that is over the right-front wheel. luckily it did not hit anybody behind me or cut my tire. the metal was not only broken, but the face of the break was already slightly rusted, as if it had been cracked for a while before snapping. | |||
| 02/23/2013 | 50000 | ||
| The driver side spring of my 2009 nissan versa broke when i was pulling out of the garage. i heard a big bang and assumed it was from ice build up. i continued to drive and the vehicle pulled hard to the left. turns out the spring had sheared previously (as rust had built up on the break point) and it let go at that time. my driver side strut is bent as a result of the spring breaking. | |||
| 02/10/2013 | 77729 | 1 | |
| Left front coil spring broke. car was parked in garage and when it was started in order to pull out of the garage, my boyfriend found an 8 inch portion of the coil spring - the bottom part of driver's side spring that sits in the saddle of strut, on the garage floor. *tr | |||
| 02/10/2013 | 77729 | ||
| Left front coil spring broke. car was parked in garage and when it was started in order to pull out of the garage, my boyfriend found an 8 inch portion of the coil spring - the bottom part of driver's side spring that sits in the saddle of strut, on the garage floor. | |||
| 01/03/2013 | 87000 | 1 | |
| While driving at low speeds i heard a loud pop. the vehicle seemed to drive fine but that weekend i took it in for regular service at a local service shop. i asked them to check for the source of the loud pop in addition to the normal service. they informed me that not one but both of my front coil springs were snapped and that i was lucky the coil springs were retained on the upper support shelf as they could have sliced a tire potentially causing an accident. this vehicle has 87,000 miles, has never been in an accident, and is only driven to and from work 90 miles round trip daily on good highways.. *tr | |||
| 01/03/2013 | 87000 | ||
| While driving at low speeds i heard a loud pop. the vehichle seemed to drive fine but that weekend i took it in for regular service at a local service shop. i asked them to check for the source of the loud pop in addition to the normal service. they informed me that not one but both of my front coil springs were snapped and that i was lucky the coil springs were retained on the upper support shelf as they could have sliced a tire potentially causing an accident. this vehicle has 87,000 miles, has never been in an accident, and is only driven to and from work 90 miles round trip daily on good highways.. | |||
| 01/13/2012 | 42890 | ||
| Driver's side front coil spring failed while sitting at a stoplight. fortunately not driving in traffic at the time. no reason given for failure, vehicle always kept on paved roads <43k miles | |||
| 01/15/2009 | 10 | 1 | |
| Vehicle wanders at speeds above roughly 45 mph. wandering is severe at speeds above 60 mph. *tr | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT | |||
| 09/15/2009 | 2536 | 1 | |
| 2009 nissan versa hatchback less than a month the alignment needed fixing the car pulls to both sides. the beginning it goes to the left then putting the car back straight it goes to the right. it gets worse when the car goes over 40 miles per hour. *tr | |||