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Nissan Sentra 2015

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

0.38 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 73 complaints filed in the first three years, of 350 ever. 95% lower bound 0.29.

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 172 complaints

cvt	48	28%
cvt transmission	31	18%
rpm	22	13%
independent mechanic	20	12%
transmission needed	15	9%
diagnosed transmission	14	8%

Engine 68 complaints

transmission	30	44%
speed	19	28%

Unknown Or Other 54 complaints

transmission

46%

When it breaks

32% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 56,000 miles, from 212 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10692739 · 10721562 · 10734109 · 10746502 · 10777867 · 10781164

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.