Recall · 20V188000
Nissan North America recalled 4 models over air bags
216,678
Vehicles covered
4
Models
14
Model years
March 30, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2012-2017 NV Cargo and NV Passenger Van, 2013-2015 Titan and Armada and 2011-2012 Infiniti QX56 vehicles. Due to a manufacturing issue, the air bag inflator may not function properly or may rupture during deployment.
- What it can cause
- An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
- What the dealer does
- Nissan will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front driver air bag inflators, free of charge. The recall began May 7, 2020. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7669 or Infiniti customer service at 1-800-662-6200.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 216,678 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2011 to 2017, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Nissan vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 32 times before this, most recently in January 2020 as 20V008000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 13 of the 14 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 267 complaints with NHTSA, 181 of them before this campaign was filed. 35 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2010, 9 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 26V455000 (equipment).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. with NHTSA on March 30, 2020 as campaign 20V188000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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