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Body · 14 owner reports

Other body or interior problem on the 2013 Nissan Versa

2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 14 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Reports of this failure 14
With an odometer reading 14
Reports per 1,000 built 0.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 86%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 3
Typical repair $200–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 7th

When other body or interior problem gets reported

Owners of the 2013 Nissan Versa report other body or interior problem at a median of 10,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 30,000 miles, from 14 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 1,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 40,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 37,564 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.

86% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 14 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
977 miles 3,895 miles 7,775 miles 31,965 miles 38,541 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

Of these reports, 2 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $200–$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 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2020 at 85,000 miles.

By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2013 has 14. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

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.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Front doors leak air into the cabin very bad. Have taken the car back to the dealer three times complaining. They finally said that all nissan versas have this issue. While traveling on the interstate and cold or raining outside the cold air leaking into the cabin causes the door windows to fog to a point you can't see to change lanes.

3,895 miles NHTSA complaint 967490 filed 2013-03-11

Front doors leak air into the cabin very bad. Have taken the car back to the dealer three times complaining. They finally said that all nissan versas have this issue. While traveling on the interstate and cold or raining outside the cold air leaking into the cabin causes the door windows to fog to a point you can't see to change lanes.

3,895 miles NHTSA complaint 967491 filed 2013-03-11

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 nissan versa. The contact stated that while driving approximately 70 MPH, his foot became stuck between the accelerator pedal and the vent unit, which was located under the console. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection. The technician advised having the factory floor mat replaced with an after market floor mat. The contact stated that the failure was not related to the floor mat. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and advised the contact that the vehicle was operating as designed. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 110. *tr

110 miles NHTSA complaint 969522 filed 2013-03-20

Also reported on the 2013 Nissan Versa

Other powertrain problem

33 reports median 87k

CVT failure

23 reports median 85k

Complete transmission failure

18 reports median 85k

Other speed control problem

18 reports median 78k

Other brake problem

16 reports median 23k

Other engine problem

14 reports median 71k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 14 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2013 Nissan Versa?

Across 14 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 30,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other body or interior problem on the 2013 Nissan Versa?

14 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 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