NHTSA Safety Recalls
2011 Nissan Frontier Recalls
The 2011 Nissan Frontier has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on February 10, 2023.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2011 Nissan Frontier. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 64
- Crashes reported
- 4
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
On a 2011 Nissan Frontier, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2011 Nissan Frontier
Air bags: frontal
- Campaign
- 23V067000
- Reported
- February 10, 2023
- Vehicles affected
- up to 404,690
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 5 other models
2011 Nissan Frontier complaints by year
NHTSA has received 64 owner complaints about the 2011 Nissan Frontier, the newest on November 2, 2025. Of these, 4 describe a crash (6%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 4 injuries.
In complaints about the 2011 Nissan Frontier, the component group named most often is the air bags (25%), followed by the service brakes (19%) and the power train (14%).
The 2011 Nissan Frontier's only recall also concerns the air bags.
Where 2011 Nissan Frontier owners gave the mileage (50 complaints), the median was 46,500 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags16
- Service Brakes12
- Power Train9
- Electrical System6
- Structure6
- Unknown Or Other5
Complaints received, by year
| 2011 | 7 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2 | |
| 2013 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 4 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 4 | |
| 2017 | 9 | |
| 2018 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 9 | |
| 2020 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 3 | |
| 2023 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 2 |
Complaints about the 2011 Nissan Frontier peaked in 2017, when NHTSA received 9. 28% arrived between 2010 and 2014, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2011 vehicles, the 2011 Nissan Frontier drew 1.0× the complaints of the median Nissan Frontier year in the same window: 15th highest of the 23 ranked years.
The 64 complaints about the 2011 Nissan Frontier are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Nissan Frontier by model year
Other 2011 Nissan models
Newest record on this page: November 2, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted