Recall · 26V230000
Nissan North America recalled the NISSAN Cube over air bags
47,928
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
April 10, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2009-2010 Cube vehicles. The driver’s air bag inflator may rupture or detach from the steering wheel during air bag deployment.
- What it can cause
- A driver's air bag that ruptures or detaches can strike the driver or other occupants, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the front air bag inflator serial number, and replace the inflator as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 9, 2026. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 800-647-7261. Nissan's number for this recall is R26A1. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning April 14, 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NissanCube | 2009 to 2010 | 2010 |
How this campaign compares
At 47,928 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2009 to 2010, so the oldest vehicles on it were 17 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Nissan vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 37 times before this, most recently in August 2024 as 24V580000. 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 157 complaints with NHTSA, 151 of them before this campaign was filed. 16 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 July 2009, 16 years before this filing.
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 10, 2026 as campaign 26V230000. 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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