Federal complaint record · Nissan Sentra · model year 2010

2010 Nissan Sentra

Owners submitted 144 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 7th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 24% · group n = 50Engine · 20% · group n = 43Airbags · 16% · group n = 33Powertrain · 9% · group n = 18Other · 7% · group n = 14
144
Complaint records on file
69,316
Median mileage at the reported problem · 105 complaints reported mileage
24%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 50
7th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 35 model years

Electrical · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Electrical24%

Electrical reports

Nissan Sentra · model year 2010

Reports in this group50
Share of classified reports24%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.0complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
55 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
144 matched incidents
2011
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
142 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 29 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32010 Nissan Sentra
Stalling or shutdown · 28 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32010 Nissan Sentra
Electrical faults · 20 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32010 Nissan Sentra

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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