Recall · 23V494000
Nissan North America recalled the NISSAN Leaf over vehicle speed control
66,159
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
July 17, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2018-2023 LEAF vehicles. The vehicle may accelerate unintentionally if the driving mode is changed ("D" to "B"; e-Pedal "On"; or "ECO" mode) after disengaging the cruise control.
- What it can cause
- Unintentional acceleration can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will reprogram the vehicle control module (VCM), free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 30, 2023. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is R23A6.
- 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 66,159 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Nissan vehicles have been recalled over the vehicle speed control 3 times before this, most recently in August 2015 as 15V507000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 645 complaints with NHTSA, 96 of them before this campaign was filed. 29 of those name the vehicle speed control, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2018, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V655000 (electrical system), 24V700000 (electrical system), 24V071000 (back over prevention), 23V362000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
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 July 17, 2023 as campaign 23V494000. 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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