Recall · 21V170000
Nissan North America recalled the NISSAN Murano over steering
15,223
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
March 11, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
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- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2020 Nissan Murano vehicles. The left and/or right-hand transverse link may not have been manufactured correctly, which could result in it separating from the ball joint.
- What it can cause
- Ball joint separation can cause a loss of vehicle control, and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Nissan will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the transverse link's lot codes, and if necessary, replace them and perform a vehicle alignment, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 6, 2021. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is PC797.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| NissanMurano | 2020 | 2020 |
How this campaign compares
At 15,223 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2020, 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 14 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V138000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 42 complaints with NHTSA, 3 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 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 February 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 21V402000 (suspension).
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 11, 2021 as campaign 21V170000. 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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