2008 NISSAN VERSA — Complaint #1330364
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:RACK AND PINION:PINION SHAFT filed October 31, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1330364 (ODI reference 10920328) concerns a 2008 NISSAN VERSA and was filed on October 31, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 10, 2016. The vehicle had 114,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:rack and pinion:pinion shaft, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN VERSA cohort independently describe similar steering:rack and pinion:pinion shaft failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 NISSAN VERSA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 NISSAN VERSA. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH, THE VEHICLE PULLED TO THE LEFT. THE FAILURE OCCURRED THREE OTHER TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE LOWER STEERING SHAFT ASSEMBLY AND TOP TORQUE ROD WERE FRACTURED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE THE VIN WAS INVALID. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 114,000. UPDATED 03/07/17*LJ CONSUMER NEEDED DOCUMENTATION TO SUBSTANTIATE THE FAULTY CONDITION OF THE SUSPENSION SYSTEM. UPDATED 6/29/18*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1330364 |
| ODI Number | 10920328 |
| Date Filed | October 31, 2016 |
| Failure Date | September 10, 2016 |
| VIN | 3NBC11E08L4 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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