2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE — Complaint #1774647
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed October 21, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1774647 (ODI reference 11437626) concerns a 2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE and was filed on October 21, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 1, 2020. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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 NOTE cohort independently describe similar engine 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 2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Regarding my 2014 Nissan Versa Note, with "continuous variable (cone shaped) transmission": I first noticed the transmission issue beginning October of 2020. When accelerating quickly, it feels like the transmission FREEZES, so I back off the accelerator and it usually kicks back into gear. When my husband first experienced it, he told me to shift to neutral and back to drive which seems to work; however being on a public thoroughfare and manually shifting gears to keep moving forward seems like a MAJOR SAFETY ISSUE. I have read several posts regarding this same issue. MY QUESTION IS: Why hasn't this American/Japanese automobile conglomerate addressed this SAFETY ISSUE WITH A TRANSMISSION RECALL?
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1774647 |
| ODI Number | 11437626 |
| Date Filed | October 21, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 3N1CE2CP7EL |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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