NHTSA Safety Recalls
2016 Nissan Frontier Recalls
The 2016 Nissan Frontier has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on March 31, 2016.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2016 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
- 43
- Crashes reported
- 3
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
On a 2016 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 2016 Nissan Frontier
Electrical system: wiring: front underhood
- Campaign
- 16V181000
- Reported
- March 31, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,554
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- only the 2016 Nissan Frontier
2016 Nissan Frontier complaints by year
NHTSA has received 43 owner complaints about the 2016 Nissan Frontier, the newest on July 28, 2026. Of these, 3 describe a crash (7%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2016 Nissan Frontier, the component group named most often is the air bags (23%), followed by the engine (19%) and the fuel/propulsion system (19%).
The 2016 Nissan Frontier's only recall does not concern the air bags.
Where 2016 Nissan Frontier owners gave the mileage (24 complaints), the median was 30,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags10
- Unknown Or Other9
- Engine8
- Fuel/Propulsion System8
- Structure4
- Power Train3
Complaints received, by year
| 2015 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 6 | |
| 2020 | 7 | |
| 2021 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 4 | |
| 2024 | 5 | |
| 2025 | 1 | |
| 2026 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2016 Nissan Frontier peaked in 2020, when NHTSA received 7. 53% arrived between 2015 and 2019, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2016 vehicles, the 2016 Nissan Frontier drew 1.0× the complaints of the median Nissan Frontier year in the same window: 14th highest of the 23 ranked years.
The 43 complaints about the 2016 Nissan Frontier are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Nissan Frontier by model year
Other 2016 Nissan models
Newest record on this page: July 28, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted