NHTSA Recall 16V244000 — Chevrolet, Infiniti, Nissan Air Bags › Sensor › Occupant Classification

What's wrong

Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Nissan Maxima, 2013-2016 Nissan Altima, NV200, LEAF, Sentra, and Pathfinder, 2014-2016 Nissan NV200 Taxi, Infiniti QX60, QX60 Hybrid, and Q50 Hybrid, 2014-2017 Nissan Rogue and Infiniti Q50, 2015-2016 Nissan Murano, Murano Hybrid, and Chevrolet City Express, 2014-2015 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid, and 2013 Infiniti JX35 vehicles. In these vehicles, the front seat passenger Occupant Classification System (OCS) may incorrectly classify an adult passenger as a child or classify the seat as empty despite it being occupied. As a result, the passenger frontal air bag may be turned off and not deploy in the event of a crash.

The risk

If the passenger frontal air bag does not deploy as intended in the event of a crash, the passenger is at an increased risk of injury.

The fix

Nissan will notify their owners. Chevrolet City Express owners will be notified by General Motors. Dealers will reprogram the Air Bag Control Unit (ACU) and OCS Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in Altima, Maxima, Murano, Rogue, and Sentra vehicles, and replace the OCS ECU in LEAF, NV200, NV200 Taxi, Pathfinder, Infiniti Q50, JX35, and QX60 and Chevrolet City Express vehicles, free of charge. Interim notices were sent to owners on May 31, 2016. Owners will receive a second notice when remedy parts become available. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7669, Infiniti customer service at 1-888-833-3216 or Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020.

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.

NHTSA campaign

16V244000

Filed by

Nissan North America, Inc.

Report received

26 Apr 2016

Owners notified

10 Jun 2016

Potentially affected

3,296,947

Vehicles covered by this recall

Whether a particular car is affected and still unrepaired depends on its VIN — a model year being listed does not mean every car of that year is included. Check any VIN free on CarLogs, or at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

2015 Chevrolet City Express 2016 Chevrolet City Express 2013 Infiniti Jx35 2014 Infiniti Q50 2015 Infiniti Q50 2016 Infiniti Q50 2017 Infiniti Q50 2014 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid 2015 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid 2016 Infiniti Q50 Hybrid 2014 Infiniti Qx60 2015 Infiniti Qx60 2016 Infiniti Qx60 2014 Infiniti Qx60 Hybrid 2015 Infiniti Qx60 Hybrid 2016 Infiniti Qx60 Hybrid 2013 Nissan Altima 2014 Nissan Altima 2015 Nissan Altima 2016 Nissan Altima 2013 Nissan Leaf 2014 Nissan Leaf 2015 Nissan Leaf 2016 Nissan Leaf 2016 Nissan Maxima 2017 Nissan Maxima 2015 Nissan Murano 2016 Nissan Murano 2015 Nissan Murano Hybrid 2016 Nissan Murano Hybrid 2014 Nissan Nv200 Taxi 2015 Nissan Nv200 Taxi 2016 Nissan Nv200 Taxi 2013 Nissan Pathfinder 2014 Nissan Pathfinder 2015 Nissan Pathfinder 2016 Nissan Pathfinder 2014 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid 2015 Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid 2013 Nissan Redundant Nv200 2014 Nissan Redundant Nv200 2015 Nissan Redundant Nv200 2016 Nissan Redundant Nv200 2014 Nissan Rogue 2015 Nissan Rogue 2016 Nissan Rogue 2017 Nissan Rogue 2013 Nissan Sentra 2014 Nissan Sentra 2015 Nissan Sentra 2016 Nissan Sentra

Is this car's recall fixed?

Recall repairs are free at any franchised dealer, for the life of the vehicle. A CarLogs report shows the recall status for a specific VIN as reported by the manufacturer — whether it's open or repaired, and whether the fix is available yet.

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