2020 NISSAN SENTRA — Complaint #1929065
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY filed September 19, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1929065 (ODI reference 11545466) concerns a 2020 NISSAN SENTRA and was filed on September 19, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 19, 2023. The vehicle had 40,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:linkages:tie rod assembly, 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 SENTRA cohort independently describe similar steering:linkages:tie rod assembly 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 2020 NISSAN SENTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Nissan Sentra. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the front passenger's side wheel was wobbling excessively. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, and the contact was informed that the tie rods needed to be replaced. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the inner tie rod was out of the boot. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The contact stated that the failure was related to NHTSA Campaign Number: 23V581000 (Steering). The failure mileage was approximately 40,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1929065 |
| ODI Number | 11545466 |
| Date Filed | September 19, 2023 |
| Failure Date | September 19, 2023 |
| VIN | 3N1AB8CV2LY |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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