2008 NISSAN VERSA — Complaint #973623
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS filed April 12, 2013
NHTSA complaint #973623 (ODI reference 10508072) concerns a 2008 NISSAN VERSA and was filed on April 12, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 8, 2013. The vehicle had 72,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maine based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:springs:coil springs, 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 suspension:rear:springs:coil springs 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
I PARKED MY NISSAN VERSA IN A PARKING LOT WHILE I WAS AT WORK ALL DAY. I HADN'T HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH IT. WHEN I GOT IN TO LEAVE IN THE EVENING AND PUT THE CAR IN DRIVE AND WENT FORWARD A FEW INCHES, I HEARD A HORRIBLE CRUNCHING NOISE LIKE I HIT SOMETHING. WHEN I BACKED UP TO SEE WHAT WAS UNDER MY CAR, I JUST SAW A METAL HORSESHOE SHAPED BROKEN PIECE ON THE GROUND. MY MECHANIC SAYS IT IS A COIL SPRING THAT BROKE. I'VE SEEN MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS FROM NISSAN VERSA OWNERS. THE BROKEN PART DIDN'T SEEM RUSTY AT ALL. I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENED. THE CAR HASN'T BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT. IT SEEMED TO HAPPEN OUT OF THE BLUE. *TR THE DEALER STATED THE REAR COIL SPRING NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 973623 |
| ODI Number | 10508072 |
| Date Filed | April 12, 2013 |
| Failure Date | April 8, 2013 |
| VIN | 3N1BC13E08L |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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