2014 NISSAN VERSA Complaints

I HAD TO STOP REAL QUICK TO AVOID HITTING A STRAY DOG RUNNING ACROSS THE STREET. I FELL FORWARD THE STERRING WHEEL. MY SEAT BELT WAS LOOSE. THE SEAT BELT COVER ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE HAD TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE IT POPPED OFF AND WOULD CUT MY ARMS OR HANDS WHENEVER I HAD TO REACH IN BACK TO LOCK OR UNLOCK BACK DOOR. THAT WAS FINALLY COMPLETED APPROX. 2 WEEKS AGO. BY A NISSAN DEALER. HOWEVER, IT STATED ON THE WORK ORDER. THEY DID IT THE BEST WAY- THEY COULD. LAST NIGHT, 8/4/2015, I USED THE SEAT BELT AND IT WAS LOOSE WHEN I PUT IT ON AND NEVER GOT ANY TIGHTER, EVEN IF I TRIED TO MOVE AROUND THE FRONT SEAT. WITH OR WITHOUT BRAKES IT NEVER TIGHTENS UP IF I MAKE A SUDDEN STOP.. I HAVE OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THIS CAR, BUT THIS IS DANGEROUS TO ME. I CONTACTED THE DEALER AND THEY REFUSED TO WORK ON IT-ORDERS FROM ABOVE. MY BRAKES ACT CRAZY SINCE THEY DID THAT RECALL SYSTEM AND NOW THIS(PLUS MY OTHER PROBLEMS). SEAT BELTS ARE A MUST IN MY CAR. HOW CAN I TELL MY PASSENGERS TO WEAR THEIRS WHEN MINE JUST HANG ON ME. THIS IS BIG SAFETY ISSUE.

STARTED THE VERSA AFTER BEING PARKED FOR AT LEAST 30 MINUTES AND WAS EXITING A SHOPPING CENTER. EXIT REQUIRES DRIVING UP A SIGNIFICANT INCLINE TO ACCESS BUSY THREE LANE ROAD. AT THE CREST OF THE HILL, DURING PAUSE WAITING FOR ACCESS POINT TO ENTER TRAFFIC, VERSA WOULD NOT MOVE EVEN WITH EXCELLERATOR DEPRESSED. TRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND VERSA INSTEAD ROLLED BACKWARDS, GAINING MOMENTUM WHILE GOING DOWN HILL BACKWARDS. BRAKES FAILED, PRESSED ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR AND WOULD NOT STOP CAR UNTIL A CURB WAS HIT. LATER, EXITING THE SAME LOCATION AND CROSSED IN 2 LANES, THE VERSA RUNNING BUT THE TRANSMISSION WOULD NOT MOVE THE CAR. ZERO RPMS. CAR STOPPED DEAD IN ITS TRACKS AND WOULD NOT MOVE EVEN SHIFTING GEARS TRYING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO GET OUT OF THE ONCOMING TRAFFIC. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO MOVE THE CAR, THE VERSA DIED. VERSA THEN WOULD NOT START AND ONLY MADE 'CLICKING NOISES'. FIVE PEOPLE IN THE CAR ALL AT RISK DURING THIS SERIOUS DRIVABILITY CONCERN. ONCE ABLE TO RESTART THE CAR, THE TRANS AND ENGINE SINKED AND VERSA THEN DRIVABLE. EXITED THE ROADWAY. DROVE THE VEHICLE IN LESS POPULATED AREA TO THE DEALERSHIP. THIS ALL FOLLOWING A COMPLAINT TO THE DEALER IN MAY THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS MAKING UNUSAL NOISES WHICH THEY CLAIMED WAS NORMAL FOR THE 2014 CVT.

PARKED MY CAR, AS I WAS WALKING AROUND TO THE PASSENGER SIDE HEARD A "CLICK" NOISE AND MY WINDSHIELD CRACKED. NOTHING HIT MY WINDSHIELD, IT JUST CRACKED. THE CRACK IS LOCATED ON THE PASSENGER SIDE FROM THE LOWER CORNER AND GOES UP ALL THE WAY TO THE CENTER OF THE WINDSHIELD.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 NISSAN VERSA. WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH, THE VEHICLE INDEPENDENTLY ACCELERATED. WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS STOPPED, IT ATTEMPTED TO ACCELERATE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 28,876.

RETURNING FROM STATE LINE MY MOTHER AND TWO AUNTS WHERE DRIVING BACK TO LA ON THE FREEWAY WHEN TRAFIC SLOWED BEFORE APPROACHING A DOWNHILL GRADE WHEN MY AUNT WENT TO BRAKE WHEN THE BRAKE SYSTEM WAS A TOTAL FAILURE. THE BRAKE PEDAL WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOR. SHE THEN CONTINUED TO PUMP THE BRAKES STILL NOT STOPING SHE PUT THE CAR ON NUETRAL AND PULLED ON THE SHOULDER AND WAITED FOR THE CAR TO SLOW DOWN. WHEN THE CAR STOPED THEY BRAKES WERE STILL NOT WORKING. THE CAR STOPED WHEN THEY ENTERED AN UPHILL OFF RAMP. THEY THEN CALLED AAA AND TOWED THE CAR BACK TO MY HOUSE. THE VERY NEXT DAY JULY 6 I TOOK MY MOTHETS CAR TO THE DEALER AND TOLD THEM WHAT HAPPEN N THEY PROCEEDED TO CHECK THE CAR ONKY TO FIND "CLIENT STAYESAT TIME BRAKE IS HARD/PADEL GORS TO THE FLOOR" THEN IT SAYS "TEST BRAKE SYSTEM, OK. NO LEAK. UNABLE TO DIPLOCATE THIS PROBLEM AT THIS TIME." I DID SOME REASEARCH AND FOUND ARTICLES RELATED TO THE 2014 NISSAN VERSA BREAK FAILURES AND PROCEDED TO THIS WEBSITE. HERES MY QUESTION WHAT IF THE NEXT TIME A NISSAN VERSA BRAKE FAILURESRESULTS IN A MAJOR ACCIDENT OR LOSS OF LIFE. MY MOTHER THIS NISSAN VERSA IM DESCRIBING WITH INCIDENT IS MY MOTHERS. RECALL IT AND MAKE IT SAFE TO DRIVE. IT WILL CONTINUE TO FAIL YOU AND I BOTH KNOW IT WILL.

I LIVE IN ARIZONA. I HAD COME TO A STOP AT A RED LIGHT IN SOME HEAVY TRAFFIC. I WAS GETTING READY TO MAKE A RIGHT TURN. AT THE POINT OF MAKING THE RIGHT TURN THE CAR DIED. I COULD NOT COMPLETE THE TURN. BASICALLY I STARTED TO HEAD INTO OTHER CARS THAT WERE MAKING A LEFT TURN WHICH WAS PERPENDICULAR TO MY CAR. I WAS ABLE TO AVOID HITTING ANY CARS AND AT THE SAME TIME WAS LUCKY NOT TO BE HIT BY ANY CARS. THE CAR ENDED UP IN THAT LEFT TURN LANE. WHEN THE CAR STOPPED I TURNED THE KEY TO THE OFF POSITION AND THEN PUT THE CAR IN PARK AND THEN WAITED A MINUTE OR TWO AND STARTED THE CAR BACK UP AGAIN. NO CHECK ENGINE LIGHT STAYED ON AFTER RESTARTING THE CAR AND I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT HOME WHICH WAS A 1/2 MILE AWAY. IT WAS ABOUT 105 DEGREES OUTSIDE. THIS SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE FOR THIS TYPE VEHICLE WHEN IT IS HOT OUTSIDE. I THINK ONE OF THE SERVICE BULLETINS MENTIONS EXACTLY WHAT I WENT THROUGH. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED BECAUSE ONE OR MORE PEOPLE WILL GET HURT OR DIE. I NEVER HAVE HAD ANY ISSUE REALLY OF ANY TYPE WITH THIS VEHICLE BEFORE. ALL THE MAINTENANCE WORK THAT IS NEEDED HAS BEEN DONE ON TIME. THE CAR HAS BEEN MAINTAINED PROPERLY. I DID NOTICE PROBABLY 30 MINUTES BEFORE DRIVING THAT THE CAR WAS HAVING PROBLEMS ACCELERATING. I KEPT THINKING I DIDN'T HAVE THE CAR IN THE CORRECT GEAR BUT I DID. THE CAR DURING THAT TIME SEEMED SLUGGISH.

AFTER DRIVING ON HIGHWAY OR INTERSTATE WITH NO BRAKE USE THE BRAKES HOWL VERY LOUDLY WHEN APPLIED THE FIRST FEW STOPS. THE HOWLING HAS GOTTEN WORSE, THE STOPPING POWER IS GOOD AND THERE IS NO BRAKE FADE, NO PULSING IN THE PEDAL. NISSAN REFUSES TO FIX UNDER WARRANTY SAYING BRAKES ARE A WEAR ITEM, BUT MY MILAGE IS ALL HIGHWAY AND INTERSTATE WITH VERY LITTLE BRAKE USEAGE.

REAR ENDED THE VEHICLE IN FRONT OF ME AT 30 MPH CAUSING TOTAL LOSS OF VEHICLE, AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY.

MAYBE NOT A SAFETY ISSUE, BUT HIGHLY IRRITATING. IN WINTER, NO MATTER HOW COLD, THE VEHICLE TAKES WAY TOO LONG TO HEAT UP FOR WARM CABIN AIR. I LIVE 7 MILES FROM WORK, BUT IT STILL TAKES ALMOST 20 MINUTES TO GET THERE. I AM NOT GETTING WARM ENOUGH AIR UNTIL IM ALMOST AT WORK. IT MATTERS NOT HOW LONG I LET IT IDLE. ON VERY COLD DAYS, I DONT GET DEFROSTER HEAT AND I HAVE INTERIOR FROST ALL THE TIME. AFTER READING VERSA FORUMS ONLINE, IM LED TO BELLIEVE ITS ALL BECAUSE THE CAR HAS TWO THERMOSTATS AND AN OIL COOLER. IN CONTRAST, MY WIFES NEW 3 CYLINDER MITSUBISHI MIRAGE IS WARM IN ABOUT 5 MINUTES. DEALER SAYS ITS NORMAL FOR THIS CAR. HAD I KNOWN THIS BEFORE HAND I PROBABLY WOULDNT HAVE BOUGHT IT.

AS I WAS SLOWLY COMING TO A STOP AT A LIGHT MY BRAKES BEGAN TO PULSATE. THEY DID NOT MAKE ANY STRANGE NOISES. I CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP AND WAS WAITING FOR THE LIGHT TO CHANGE WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE BRAKE PEDAL RELEASED SLIGHTLY AND I BEGAN TO ROLL SLOWLY FORWARD, SO I PRESSED HARDER ON THE BRAKES AND STOPPED. THIS WAS A NEW CAR AT THE TIME SO I THOUGHT PERHAPS I JUST DIDN'T HAVE MY FOOT ON THE BRAKE HARD ENOUGH, ALTHOUGH I KNEW THE PULSATING WAS NOT NORMAL. EVER SINCE THIS INCIDENT THE PULSATING BRAKES AS I'M SLOWLY COMING TO A STOP HAPPENS INTERMITTENTLY. HOWEVER, THE BRAKES RELEASING WHILE I'M AT A STOP HAPPENS OFTEN, ESPECIALLY WHEN I RUN THE AIR CONDITIONER. I NOTICE THAT WHEN I'M AT A STOP AND THE AIR CONDITIONER KICKS ON, THE BRAKES WILL OFTEN RELEASE AND I HAVE TO PRESS DOWN HARDER TO KEEP THE CAR FROM ROLLING FORWARD. I HAVE READ SIMILAR COMPLAINTS AND I KNOW THE INVESTIGATION REGARDING THIS ISSUES HAS BEEN CLOSED, BUT I'M TELLING YOU, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT WITH THE BRAKES IN THIS CAR.