Recall · 21V138000
Nissan North America recalled the NISSAN Altima over steering
2,407
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 4, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Nissan Altima vehicles. The tie rod ball joint fastener was not tightened properly, which could result in the tie rod ball joint detaching from the steering knuckle.
- What it can cause
- A detached tie rod ball joint can cause a loss of steering control, and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Nissan will notify owners, and dealers will tighten the left and right-side tie rod ball joint fasteners, or install new fasteners as necessary, free of charge. The began March 31, 2021. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7769. Nissan's number for this recall is PC795.
- 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 2,407 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Nissan vehicles have been recalled over the steering 13 times before this, most recently in March 2017 as 17V184000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 227 complaints with NHTSA, 21 of them before this campaign was filed. 20 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V437000 (engine and engine cooling), 23V628000 (back over prevention), 21V169000 (tires), 20V685000 (tires).
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 4, 2021 as campaign 21V138000. 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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