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2016 Nissan Juke Problems, complaints & recalls

Owners have filed 28 complaints about the 2016 Nissan Juke with NHTSA, most often about the transmission & drivetrain (9) and the engine & cooling (8). Those complaints describe 3 crashes and 1 fire. It is covered by 1 recall, the latest in January 2018 for the master cylinder. For comparison, the 2015 has 34 and the 2017 has 14.

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AFar fewer problems than a typical Juke year, for its age

#163 most complained-about 2016 vehicle

Complaints
28
Recalls
1
Crashes
3
Fires
1
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Most common 2016 Nissan Juke problems

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2016 Nissan Juke recalls 1

Recall repairs are free. Your dealer fixes them whether or not you bought the car there - check your VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls to see if yours is done. What to do

Service brakes: master cylinder

18V086000415 vehicles affected

The problem
Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2015-2017 Nissan Juke Nismo RS vehicles. Due to a problem within the brake master cylinder, brake fluid may leak into the brake booster, reducing brake performance.
The risk
If brake fluid leaks into the brake booster it can lengthen the distance needed to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The fix
Nissan will notify owners, and dealers will replace the brake master cylinder, free of charge. The recall began March 19, 2018. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-647-7261.

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28 complaints about the 2016 Nissan Juke

Newest first, as filed with NHTSA by owners. Page 1 of 2.

SteeringAcceleration & cruise control

The contact owns a 2016 Nissan Juke. The contact stated while driving 30-35 MPH, the steering wheel jerked to the left unintendedly, and the vehicle accelerated unintendedly. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact stated that upon depressing the brake pedal, the vehicle responded as needed. The contact was able to pull over to the side of the road. The contact's son met the contact on the side of the road and assisted the contact in driving the vehicle to the residence. The vehicle was towed to an...

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independent mechanic, where it was test-driven, and the failure recurred. An unknown warning light was illuminated. The mechanic informed the contact that the vehicle could not be diagnosed because the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The dealer was notified of the failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 55,000.

Filed Incident Steering · Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 11648114
SteeringSuspension

I've had 3 sets of oem control arms fail repeatedly all have been replaced by dealer anytime you go over w bump it bends the control arms

Filed Incident Steering · SuspensionNHTSA 11626853
Transmission & drivetrainElectrical systemEngine & cooling

For 8 years Since 20161st The struts, censor, Control panel, Window, 3 transmissions, Electronic multi-way control valve, EGR system, Radiator. All of these troubles since 2016 every year a problem.

Filed Incident Power train · Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11613857
SteeringWheels & tiresBrakesCrash

The brakes in my car failed to work, leaving me swirling around on the highway. Yes it is available for inspection. I was a car accident that left me with a concussion and minor injuries. No the car is now totaled. The vehicle did receive an appraisal inspection. No they were absolutely no warnings or anything that made me feel I shouldn't have been driving my car. I kept up on the maintenance well with the help of my warranty company. I did notice in the last few weeks of driving my car though that my check engine light was on.

Filed Incident Steering · Wheels · Service brakesNHTSA 11588221
SteeringSuspensionTransmission & drivetrain

I'm the only owner of this vehicle. In Dec 2021 (@ 61000 miles) I had problems with steering my vehicle. I went to break and could not break on the expressway. I was on a 55 miles expressway during rush hour traffic. I came to a stop on the side of the road and when I try to engage the accelerator to get off to the exit the car will not move. It kept stalling and making grounding sounds. The steering wheel was hard to turn as well. Had the Nissan dealership tell me the transmission had to be replaced after 10...

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days of having my car at the dealership. The transmission was replaced. April 2023 (@ 87000 miles), I am back at the dealership with transmission again. This is the same transmission they put there in Dec 2021. I was going less than 10 mile on a normal roadway. The car will not accelerator or move over 10 mph. It sounded like it I was changing gear in a manual car. The abs light would blink off and on for a split second as the car jerk and trying to accelerate. I have also spend on replacing the suspending and steering, control arms and a whole bunch of other things.

Filed Incident Steering · Suspension · Power trainNHTSA 11516793
Engine & coolingFire

The contact owned a 2016 Nissan Juke. The contact stated that his wife had previously driven the vehicle and parked it. Approximately five minutes later, a coworker informed her that the vehicle had caught fire. There were no previous warning indicator lights illuminated. The fire department was able to extinguish the fire. A police report was filed. There were no reported injuries or air bag deployment. An unknown Tesla parked and unoccupied next to the Nissan sustained fire damage. The vehicle was towed to an...

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independent tow lot. The local dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified about the failure but no additional assistance was provided. The insurance company deemed the vehicle a total loss. The failure mileage was approximately 100, 000.

Filed Incident Engine and engine coolingNHTSA 11507858
Transmission & drivetrain

CPO Juke with 42k miles on it; transmission failure seemingly out of nowhere. RPMs would indicate acceleration but no additional speed could be gained over 40mph. Car would drive fine for about 15 minutes before the transmission would begin to fail again. Took it to dealership, it was diagnosed with transmission failure and transmission was replaced under warranty. Took 2 weeks for the repair request to be granted; a total of 16 days from initial diagnosis to pickup after repairs.

Filed Incident Power trainNHTSA 11428853
Engine & cooling

The contact owns a 2016 Nissan Juke. The contact stated while driving at various speeds, the contact noticed that the vehicle was not driving correctly. The contact stated that the service engine warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed with the oxygen sensor needing to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired however, the failure occurred with the other oxygen sensor. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 48,148.

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11424983
Engine & cooling

The car keeps shaking. My mechanic did say that nissan jukes have a faulty transmission. They did things to my car to try to fix it but I still find it shaking uncontrollably.

Filed Incident Unknown or other · EngineNHTSA 11388476
Other & unknown

My sunroof exploded for no reason. My car was parked in front of my house. Thank goodness I was not driving on the highway I take to go to work everyday. Weather temps were ideal not too hot nor cold. Unknown on how this occurred.

Filed Incident Unknown or otherNHTSA 11321915
AirbagsCrash

Was driving home around 6am after a rainy night when I took a turn and the front tires lost traction resulting in the front right passenger side striking a curb. The car was only going about 15 mph when this occurred and there is minimal damage however the entire passenger side airbags deployed causing minor whiplash and bruising to the passenger although it feels as if it could have been much worse. I'm mainly concerned with the airbag because I feel that if it didn't go off, there would have been no injury under these circumstances.

Filed Incident Air bagsNHTSA 11287957
Transmission & drivetrain

Faulty transmission, my car has less than 60k miles and the transmission started failing. It was up to date on transmission fluid and filters were good. My mechanic couldn't thing a reason why the transmission was failing, I was suggested to put a brand new transmission on my car which has only 55k miles, this started to happen while I was on the highway, my transmission started slipping out of no where

Filed Incident Power trainNHTSA 11240423
SuspensionWheels & tires

This car is literally failing every year for the past 2 years 9 months. The axel's had to be replaced and the air conditioning had to be fixed just in days of the last repair an engine light came on and that repair was an oxygen sensor (emissions) this was a brand new vehicle with struts problem less than 90 days. The wheels had noise then now wheel axel's problems same as the struts front left and right. This juke is a lemon and I asked the manufacturer from the first repair that it was something wrong with this...

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juke 2016. Many case numbers have been placed on this vehicle for major repairs. Unfortunately the manufacturer wants nothing to do with it own vehicle. Shame on you nissan not worried if your cars are not safe.

Filed Incident Suspension · Wheels · Unknown or otherNHTSA 11234283
Transmission & drivetrainElectrical systemEngine & cooling

What has happened is in my letter that was not sent to nissan yet but every occurrence is listed and filed with nissan consumer affairs you will see the case numbers. This is also my report to you. If more information is needed I will supply it

Filed Incident Power train · Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11233487
Transmission & drivetrain

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 nissan juke. While driving, the rpms increased; however, the vehicle would not accelerate over 40 mph. The vehicle was taken to nissan of staten island (1976 hylan blvd, staten island, ny 10306, (718) 447-3800) to be diagnosed, but the cause of the failure could not be determined. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified, but was not able to assist. The failure mileage was 10,288.

Filed Incident Power trainNHTSA 11172507
Transmission & drivetrain

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 nissan juke. After starting the vehicle, the transmission failed to operate the vehicle. The vehicle was towed to peltier nissan (3201 s sw loop 323, tyler, tx 75701, (903) 561-7300) where it was diagnosed that the transmission needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified and offered to pay for half of the repair. The approximate failure mileage was 64,000.

Filed Incident Power trainNHTSA 11160899
Body, doors & structure

Opened door on driver side, hear loud pop, welds on stood frame at leading edge broke free causing door to pull apart. Brought to dealership, per body shop improper welding at factory allowed rust to form causing welding to fail. Unclear at this time if door is structurally unsafe in the event of an accident until door skin is removed.

Filed Incident StructureNHTSA 11150146
Transmission & drivetrainElectrical systemEngine & cooling

2016 Nissan juke sl awd aug 2017, I traded-in a 2011 nissan juke sl for a new 2016 juke sl 1. Transmission catches: 2016 juke has a transmission issue which prevents the car from accelerating even when driving on the highway, which results in driver/passengers in car that won't move. You have to come to a complete stop to get the transmission to 'catch'. Nissan was notified four days after the car was purchased. Nissan acknowledged being able to duplicate issue over voicemail but then claimed they...

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couldn't after requesting the car be bought back. 2. Exhaust inside car: exhaust fumes permeate inside the car whenever the ac/heat/defrost are on making it impossible to be in the car without the windows down no matter how hot or cold it is outside. The smell is so overwhelming that is causes nausea, sleepiness and headache. Nissan's response, "you will smell some antifreeze/exhaust when you're in the car". 3. Electrical issue: the navigation/stereo/console randomly shuts off - while driving - which has also caused the volume knob to be inoperable. I emailed andrew tavi, todd woods and mark swenson requesting they intervene to buy the car back, but they have turned the matter back over to nissan customer care who I reported the issue to last fall (2017); this is the same nissan customer care who didn't ask to listen to the voicemail from the dealership acknowledging being able to duplicate the issue with the transmission or the multiple video's I made showing the issue with the transmission. If you google, "juke revving no acceleration" you will find multiple posts and videos from people in the us and europe who are having the same issue with their nissan's and aside from the transmission issue itself the secondary common factor is that they all, like my juke, report that their car does not 'throw a code". *Please* investigate for safety.

Filed Incident Power train · Electrical system · EngineNHTSA 11144139
Electrical systemEngine & cooling

The juke has had intermittent stalling and no start issues. The car has stalled while in motion as well as parked at idle. Once it stalls, it will not immediately start again. The dealer has been unable to determine the cause, despite having to pay for towing several times. The local abc affiliate has done at least two reports of other nissan owner experiencing the same problem eluding to a heat related issue. If that is true, the temperature is cooling off here in the desert I'm afraid I will not see this problem...

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until spring and the warranty expires. Nissan has refused to repurchase the car to this point. Without my agreement, they have opened an arbitration case offering me $1500 "for my inconvenience". The car has lost more in trade-in value than what they've offered..Going through minimal carfax reports on jukes, I've found a high percentage of jukes with similar problems. .*Bf. *Tr *dt *jb *dt*jb

Filed Incident Electrical system · Unknown or other · EngineNHTSA 11142776
Brakes

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 nissan juke. The contact stated that the brakes made an abnormal screeching and grinding noise. Additionally, while driving at unknown speeds, the brake pedal was applied, but failed to respond and traveled to the floorboard. The vehicle was taken to carmax (18800 oak park ave, tinley park, il 60477, (708) 263-6475), but no failure was found. The dealer stated that the vehicle was working as designed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 43,000.

Filed Incident Service brakesNHTSA 11130359
Transmission & drivetrainElectrical system

Transmission failure 2016 nissan juke sl awd which began day after I bought it. I described this to dealer as "car revs but no acceleration. Initially it would happen after driving on highway for about 1-1.5 Hours. Now it begins within the 10 miles it takes to drive to pick up rental car. Three times thus far I have been nearly rear ended, once by a tractor trailer whose wheels I can still hear screeching because the car wouldn't accelerate coming off an exit. The only solution is to stop the car in its...

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'tracks' to try to get the transmission to catch. I told nissan dealership where I purchased the car that car isn't safe to drive as well as nissan. Neither will even acknowledge the issue exists including refusing to view videos I took to demonstrate the issue. I took the car to 3 different nissan dealerships. One in ny said the issue was being caused by an access, a quart plus overfull, of transmission fluid. The said it would self adjust after 2000-3000 miles. First 300 miles from ny to dc car drove normally. On return trip, same issue, within 1-1.5 Hrs transmission started to hesitate, car wouldn't accelerate. Car also has electrical issues which cause console to randomly reset itself. And a nauseating smell that pervades the car which initially was noticed when I turned the heat/defrost on but now sitting here writing this, I can smell the order in my hair; I think it's some sort of exhaust smell. Nissan response to the smell which I initially thought was maybe antifreeze was that "you will smell some antifreeze. You're just sensitive smells". I have no documents to upload other than service records which shows no repairs performed. I literally just texted a friend to borrow money to buy a used a car because the more I drive the car the worse it gets and I fear an accident will ensue causing harm to myself or someone else.

Filed Incident Power train · Electrical system · Unknown or otherNHTSA 11102696
AirbagsCrash

The vehicle was moving in the a highway, when I was involve in a chain collision. The car in front of me hit the car in front of her. I hit the breaks, but I hit the car. The air bags did not activate, even when the car damage was substancial.

Filed Incident Air bagsNHTSA 11083920
Engine & cooling

My air conditioning recently went out. I was advised by the dealership that it would not be covered under the warranty because a rock had come up through the engine and poked a hole in the air compressor. Evidently, it did this without effecting the radiator or any other part of the engine. I was under the assumption the skid plate would keep this from happening, or the oil pan. If part of the engine can be ruined by a rock flying into the engine on a city street- how is this a cross over vehicle? (Defective...

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or faulty construction, design and or material). I was told by the dealership that they could not fix it because "nissan is asking for a video of the damage" and when they do that "it means no".

Filed Incident EngineNHTSA 11024142
Fuel system

Sent a warranty notification that a clog may develop in the evaporated emission vapor vent tube. Nissan stated that if this happens that the software cannot accurately pinpoint this issue. What nissan failed to state is what can happen in the event that the evaporated emission vapor vent fails!

Filed Incident Fuel / propulsion systemNHTSA 10993392
SuspensionWheels & tires

When driving the vehicle when you turn the wheel to make a turn the wheel started grinding making a clicking noise it also did the same clicking noise when you backed out in reverse. The car was driven less than 80 days of new purchase.

Filed Incident Suspension · WheelsNHTSA 10981414

Nissan Juke: every year compared

YearComplaintsRecallsCrashesFiresTop problemGrade
201714132Engine & coolingA
201628131Transmission & drivetrainA
201534120Engine & coolingA
201459273Engine & coolingC
2013103245Engine & coolingD
201287440Engine & coolingC
All Juke years

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Questions about the 2016 Nissan Juke

Does the 2016 Nissan Juke have any recalls?

Yes - NHTSA lists 1 recall for the 2016 Nissan Juke: master cylinder (January 2018). Recall repairs are free at any authorized dealer. Enter your VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls to see whether yours has been fixed.

What are the most common problems with the 2016 Nissan Juke?

By the complaints owners filed with NHTSA, the most common problem areas are the transmission & drivetrain (9), engine & cooling (8), electrical system (6).

How many complaints has the 2016 Nissan Juke had?

28 complaints have been filed with NHTSA, the first on July 12, 2016 and the latest on March 13, 2025. Of these, 3 describe a crash and 1 a fire, and together they report 0 injuries and 0 deaths.

Is the 2016 Nissan Juke a reliable vehicle?

Its Safety Index is 79 out of 100 (grade A: far fewer problems than a typical Nissan Juke year, for its age). The index weighs complaints, crashes, fires, injuries, deaths and recalls against how long the vehicle has been on the road, compared with the same model's other years. It is not a measure of every repair - read the complaints and owner experiences, and have any used vehicle inspected before you buy.

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What should I do if my 2016 Nissan Juke has a problem?

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