2021 NISSAN VERSA — Complaint #1782242
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW filed December 8, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1782242 (ODI reference 11443085) concerns a 2021 NISSAN VERSA and was filed on December 8, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 20, 2021. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:side/window, 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 air bags:side/window 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 2021 NISSAN VERSA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Rear window tinting - dealer installed. Causes severe distortion/refraction on rear windshield during night driving making it impossible to determine where the cars are behind me.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1782242 |
| ODI Number | 11443085 |
| Date Filed | December 8, 2021 |
| Failure Date | November 20, 2021 |
| VIN | 3N1CN8EV9ML |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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