Nissan Sentra: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 55 recall campaigns for the Nissan Sentra, model years 1982 to 2026. NHTSA has 5,966 complaints on file for this model line. 38 of the 45 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 30 Sep 2026. Recall file through 30 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Nissan Sentra: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	1	16	12%	15
2025 Nissan Sentra	4	30	23%	69,374
2024 Nissan Sentra	3	41	31%	11,604
2023 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	1	20	15%	351
2022 Nissan Sentra	2	81	61%	236,468
2021 Nissan Sentra	3	132	100%	528,350
2020 Nissan Sentra	4	205	155%	533,870
2019 Nissan Sentra	2	222	167%	2,036,206
2018 Nissan Sentra	2	185	140%	2,036,206
2017 Nissan Sentra	3	230	173%	990,461
2016 Nissan Sentra	6	270	204%	4,786,136
2015 Nissan Sentra	3	351	265%	3,949,440
2014 Nissan Sentra	5	380	287%	4,963,503
2013 Nissan Sentra	6	638	481%	5,015,895
2012 Nissan Sentra	0	180	136%
2011 Nissan Sentra	2	142	107%	47,540
2010 Nissan Sentra	3	144	109%	55,488
2009 Nissan Sentra	1	55	41%	7,948
2008 Nissan Sentra	3	167	126%	187,736
2007 Nissan Sentra	1	154	116%	169,202
2006 Nissan Sentra	5	116	87%	2,141,371
2005 Nissan Sentra	5	170	128%	2,100,371
2004 Nissan Sentra	4	197	149%	1,696,627
2003 Nissan Sentra	7	180	136%	2,602,697
2002 Nissan Sentra	10	318	240%	3,391,474
2001 Nissan Sentra	7	236	178%	1,306,463
2000 Nissan Sentra	6	171	129%	1,225,070
1999 Nissan Sentra	0	59	45%
1998 Nissan Sentra	1	58	44%	512,387
1997 Nissan Sentra	3	108	81%	577,837
1996 Nissan Sentra	3	141	106%	592,187
1995 Nissan Sentra	3	117	88%	528,137
1994 Nissan Sentra	0	99	75%
1993 Nissan Sentra	0	58	44%
1992 Nissan Sentra	0	62	47%
1991 Nissan Sentra	2	63	48%	2,895,462
1990 Nissan Sentra	2	39	29%	2,895,462
1989 Nissan Sentra	1	41	31%	2,730,462
1988 Nissan Sentra	1	37	28%	2,730,462
1987 Nissan Sentra	1	36	27%	2,730,462
1986 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	0	6	5%
1985 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	0	6	5%
1984 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	0	3	2%
1983 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	1	1	1%	238,055
1982 Nissan Sentra NHTSA page	1	1	1%	238,055

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

8,346 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Nissan Sentra: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Power Train	155.3	1,296
Electrical System	102.3	854
Air Bags	95.6	798
Engine and Engine Cooling	82.4	688
Engine	81.2	678
Unknown or Other	71.9	600
Vehicle Speed Control	51.2	427
Service Brakes	44.6	372
Steering	41.3	345
Forward Collision Avoidance	28.4	237

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Nissan Sentra, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 4 campaigns.

Complaints about the Nissan Sentra, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2019, with 449 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Altima54 campaigns
Pathfinder49 campaigns
Rogue44 campaigns
Maxima27 campaigns
Murano26 campaigns
Frontier39 campaigns
Versa26 campaigns
Titan34 campaigns
Xterra21 campaigns
Quest24 campaigns
Armada19 campaigns
Leaf20 campaigns
350Z3 campaigns
Kicks10 campaigns
Juke7 campaigns
D217 campaigns
370Z2 campaigns
Rogue Sport2 campaigns
300ZX4 campaigns
Versa Note8 campaigns
Cube4 campaigns
Titan XD5 campaigns
240SX2 campaigns
Stanza4 campaigns
200SX4 campaigns
Altima Hybrid1 campaign
Crew1 campaign
NV8 campaigns
Ariya3 campaigns
Redundant NV2005 campaigns
Redundant Rogue Sport2 campaigns
Redundant Rogue5 campaigns
Pulsar3 campaigns
Van6 campaigns
Pathfinder Hybrid3 campaigns
7203 campaigns
280Z4 campaigns
Z2 campaigns
NV200 Taxi4 campaigns
Murano Hybrid3 campaigns
5107 campaigns
8102 campaigns
240Z2 campaigns
3102 campaigns
SRL3112 campaigns

Nissan: all 46 model lines

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Nissan Sentra: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/nissan/sentra/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Nissan Sentra model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2002 with 10, 2003 with 7, 2001 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Nissan Sentra model year has the most complaints?: The 2013 model year, with 638 of the 5,966 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Nissan Sentra name?: Power Train: 155.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 102.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 95.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Nissan Sentra?: 14 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.