Other suspension problem on the 2009 Nissan Versa
When other suspension problem gets reported
Owners of the 2009 Nissan Versa report other suspension problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 42,500 miles and a quarter after 82,500 miles, from 44 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 100,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 112,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 83,560 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
18% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29,240 miles | 43,500 miles | 61,000 miles | 83,025 miles | 112,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $350–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2011 at 90,000 miles.
By volume the 2009 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
2009 nissan versa hatchback less than a month the alignment needed fixing the car pulls to both sides. The beginning it goes to the left then putting the car back straight it goes to the right. It gets worse when the car goes over 40 miles per hour. *tr
While driving at low speeds I heard a loud pop. The vehicle seemed to drive fine but that weekend I took it in for regular service at a local service shop. I asked them to check for the source of the loud pop in addition to the normal service. They informed me that not one but both of my front coil springs were snapped and that I was lucky the coil springs were retained on the upper support shelf as they could have sliced a tire potentially causing an accident. This vehicle has 87,000 miles, has never been in an accident, and is only driven to and from work 90 miles round trip daily on good highways.. *tr
Front driver side suspension spring broke when pulling out of driveway. There is no valid reason for a suspension spring to snap on a 2009 automobile. This caused damage to the tire. The cost to fix this issue is $700.00 for the spring and new tire. What would have happened had I been on the expressway driving at 65 MPH? *tr
Also reported on the 2009 Nissan Versa
Strut, shock or spring failure
Airbag inflator rupture
Fuel pump failure
Other wheel or tire problem
Exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin
Other engine problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 48 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other suspension problem happen on the 2009 Nissan Versa?
Across 44 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 42,500 miles and a quarter after 82,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other suspension problem on the 2009 Nissan Versa?
48 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed