2015 Nissan Versa

Typical pattern

11.2% of complaints about the 2015 Nissan Versa came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2015 vehicle — around the middle of the 195 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 3.8 yr in service. The most-reported system is power train (46 complaints), typically at 4.3 yr or about 64,000 miles.

Complaints: 258
Median age at failure: 3.8 yr
Median mileage: 47,555 n=180
Crash / fire / tow: 14.7% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

System

0y2y4y6y8y10y12y14y

Power train

46 reports · 64,000 mi

4.3 yr

8.7%

Engine

26 reports · 53,000 mi

4.1 yr

11.5%

Other

26 reports · 47,555 mi

4.1 yr

3.8%

Air bags

25 reports · 42,000 mi

3.8 yr

52%

Speed control

21 reports · 33,000 mi

3.6 yr

4.8%

Steering

20 reports · 48,000 mi

3.5 yr

Service brakes

17 reports · 15,645 mi

2.2 yr

23.5%

Electrical system

17 reports · 75,000 mi

4.3 yr

11.8%

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

15V507000 2015-08-12

Vehicle speed control:accelerator pedal

Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Nissan Versa sedan vehicles manufactured June 9, 2011, to March 11, 2015, and 2014-2015 Nissan Versa Note vehicles manufactured April 23, 2013, to March 11, 2015. The affected vehicles have a center console trim panel that may catch the driver's shoe and delay the transition from the accelerator pedal to the brake pedal.

A delay in the application of the brake pedal would lengthen the distance needed to stop the vehicle and increase the risk of a crash.

In owners’ own words

Service brakes 600 mi 0 mo in service

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2015 NISSAN VERSA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT 5 MPH AND ATTEMPTING TO ENGAGE THE BRAKES, THE BRAKE PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 600.

Service brakes 35 mi 8 mo in service

WHILE GOING DOWNHILL AT 30-35 MPH WE STARTED TO COME UPON A RED LIGHT. THE CAR BEGAN TO SLOW DOWN BUT NOT BY MUCH AS IT KEPT GOING AT A STEADY RATE. FINALLY AFTER PRESSING HARD ON THE BRAKES ALMOST TO THE FLOOR THE CAR BEGAN TO STOP. IT EVENTUALLY CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROSSWALK.

Service brakes 2,678 mi 9 mo in service

BRAKES GOING TO FLOOR WHEN STARTING CAR. BRAKES GOING GRADUALLY DECLINING TO FLOOR WHEN COMPLETELY STOPPED AND STEADY PRESSURE APPLIED TO BRAKES.

Power train 115,000 mi 3.1 yr in service

AT 90,000 MILES THE TRANSMISSION STARTED ACTING UP. IT WOULD ACT LIKE IT WAS SLIPPING WHEN YOU TAKE OFF FROM A DEAD STOP. AS TIME WENT BY, AT 114,000 MILES THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. AT THE SAME TIME THE TRANSMISSION GOT WORSE. NOT ONLY IT WAS SLIPPING AT TAKE OFF, BUT JERKING AT 20 AND 40 MPH. WHE I TOOK IT TO THE DEALER, THEY TOLD ME I NEEDED A NEW TRANSMISSION. THE DEALER WHEN I CHECKED THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ALSO SAID IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SERVICED EVERY 36,000 MILES. SHE I WHEN IN FOR OIL CHANGES NOTHING WAS SAID PRIOR.

Other Versa model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.