20V747000
AIR BAGS
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2002 NISSAN SENTRA
3 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 388 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2002 NISSAN SENTRA carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints388
Complaints citing a crash24
Complaints citing a fire9
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
20V008000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
15V287000
AIR BAGS
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants potentially resulting in serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 67ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 41ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
- 30ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 27ENGINE
- 26AIR BAGS
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:MODULE
- 15VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 14UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2002 NISSAN SENTRAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.