Recall · 22V244000
Nissan North America recalled the NISSAN Sentra over exterior lighting
5,520
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
April 13, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS
- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2020 Sentra vehicles, equipped with LED headlights. The right-hand headlight aim may be misaligned. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamp, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- An improperly aimed headlight may reduce the driver's visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the right-hand headlight, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 10, 2022. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is R20B4.
- 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.nhtsa.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 |
|---|---|---|
| NissanSentra | 2020 | 2020 |
How this campaign compares
At 5,520 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 75% 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 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Nissan vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 9 times before this, most recently in June 2021 as 21V471000. 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 204 complaints with NHTSA, 46 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 23V628000 (back over prevention), 23V581000 (steering), 21V461000 (steering).
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 April 13, 2022 as campaign 22V244000. 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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