Nissan Leaf 2015

• Recall 233854 [USA]: Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.
  Nissan north america, inc. (nissan) is recalling certain 2013-2017 leaf vehicles. The owner's manual instructions for defroster operation are incorrect and may result in reduced defroster performance under specific conditions. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard number 103, "windshield defrosting and defogging systems."
  nissan will mail an addendum with updated instructions on how to operate the defroster, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed may 26, 2023. Owners may contact nissan's customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is r23a1.
  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.

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• Recall 122198 [USA]: In the event of a crash, if the front passenger air bag doesn't deploy properly, it can increase the risk of injury to passengers.
  Nissan north america, inc. (nissan) is recalling certain 2015-2017 leaf and 2014, 2016 and 2017 sentra vehicles. Due to a manufacturing error within the air bag inflators, the passenger frontal air bag may not properly deploy in the event of a crash.
  nissan will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front passenger air bag inflator, free of charge. The recall began june 7, 2017. Owners may contact nissan customer service at 1-800-647-7261.
  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.

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• Recall 119649 [USA]: 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.
  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.
  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.

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• Recall 114500 [USA]: If the brake relay fails, longer distances or additional brake effort would be required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
  Nissan north america, inc. (nissan) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 leaf vehicles manufactured november 19, 2012, to july 31, 2015. During very cold temperatures, the relay inside the electronic brake booster may freeze, requiring the driver to exert more effort to slow the vehicle down.
  nissan will notify owners, and dealers will reprogram the intelligent brake control unit software, free of charge. The recall began on march 28, 2016. Owners may contact nissan customer service at 1-800-647-7261.
  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.

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• Recall 2019044 [Canada]: Brakes
  Issue: when the car is parked in very cold temperatures for a long time, a relay in the brake system may freeze. If this happens, multiple brake warnings will stay on in the instrument cluster after the car is started. The driver may also notice a hard brake pedal. If the car is driven, this could cause an increase in stopping distance. Safety risk: an increase in stopping distance could create the risk of a crash. Corrective actions: the company will mail owners a letter explaining this problem. The letter will describe how the brake warnings work. Drivers should not drive the car if the warnings stay on. Nissan will provide a 4 year/80,000 km warranty extension to repair the problem with relay freezing.

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• Recall 2017215 [Canada]: Airbag
  On certain vehicles, the passenger's frontal airbag may not deploy correctly due to an issue in manufacturing. As a result of long-term storage, there could be insufficient compression strength of the coolant within the inflator housing of the passenger's frontal airbag, which may cause the airbag to fail to deploy properly in the event of a crash (where deployment is warranted), which could increase the risk of injury to the front passenger occupant. Correction: dealers will replace the passenger's frontal airbag inflator.

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• Recall 2016179 [Canada]: Seats and restraints
  On certain vehicles, a defect in the occupant classification system could allow an adult sitting in the front passenger seat to be classified as a child or an “empty seat”. This would suppress the airbag, which could increase the risk of injury in a crash. Correction: for affected altima, maxima, murano, rogue and sentra vehicles, dealers will reprogram the airbag control unit and the occupant classification system control unit. For affected leaf, nv200, pathfinder, q50 and jx35/qx60 vehicles, dealers will replace the occupant classification system electronic control unit.

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• Recall 2016096 [Canada]: Brakes
  On certain vehicles, when the vehicle is parked in cold temperatures for a prolonged period of time, the relay inside the electronic brake booster may freeze. This may result in increased brake pedal effort, which could increase stopping distances, potentially resulting in a crash causing injury and/or damage property. Correction: an electric vehicle certified dealer will reprogram the electrically-driven intelligent brake control unit software. Note: if this condition were present, a brake warning lamp would illuminate when the vehicle is first started to alert the operator of the issue.

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Bulletins are notices put out by manufacturers in conjunction with the NHTSA to notify the public of manufacturing issues or changes.

• Pedestrian alert sounds investigation # DP22005

  Nhtsa received a petition on or about july 18, 2022, requesting that federal motor vehicle safety standard (fmvss) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the united states. The petition can be reviewed at nhtsa.Gov under odi number 11486072.Fmvss 141 establishes performance requirements for pedestrian alert sounds for motor vehicles. The standard applies to hybrid and electric vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight rating of 4,536 kg or less or are defined as low-speed vehicles. The standard became fully applicable to all such vehicles manufactured on or after march 1, 2021.The petitioner asserts that hybrid and electric vehicles to which the standard does not apply should be found to contain a safety defect. In support of the petition, the petitioner includes findings contained in a bill introduced in the house of representatives in 2009, the pedestrian safety enhancement act of 2009, h.R. 734, 111th cong. (2009). A related bill, the pedestrian safety enhancement act of 2010, became law in january 2011 (pub. L. 111-373). The petitioner requests that nhtsa require all electric and hybrid vehicles comply with fmvss 141, regardless of production date.The defect petition has been opened to evaluate the issue and determine whether to grant or deny the petition.The associated product list is not exhaustive and may contain vehicles that are equipped with pedestrian alert sounds.
  

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I backed my car out of the parking space in front of a building, and drove on a 300+ ft long driveway. I stepped on the brake before entering the main road perpendicular to the driveway, but the car didn’t slow down. I almost hit the incoming car on the main road. As i maneuvered my car to avoid the other car, my foot was on the brake the whole time, but i couldn’t feel the brake at all. I panicked and forgot to use the emergency brake. I saw “brake” on the display screen, with several other warning signs, including the yellow and red triangle exclamation marks. My car cruised for another 500 ft or so and finally stopped. I put the emergency stop flash light on. I called the police to report that my car was blocking half of the lane, before calling my insurance. Luckily it was not a very busy street. A police officer came after 30 minutes and he helped me move my car to the side of the road. He said the brake responded to him. After over an hour, the towing company came to tow my car to the nearest nissan dealer/service center (about 8 miles away). The guy from the towing company said he could feel the brake fine. It was less than 10 minutes before closing so l left my car at nissan service center. This morning the service center called me and said they hadn’t found anything wrong during the initial diagnose yet. They called the nissan north america to request them to send technicians to check my car. I have found on an online forum several threads discussing the same experience like me - no brake while driving a nissan leaf. The dates of those posts range from 2011 to 2014 to 2018. They also had the yellow and red triangle warning signs on, and some of them found their brakes work again after they waited a while and restarted the car. Although the cause hasn’t been identified yet, i wanted to report this incident because it is so dangerous. Imagine what happens if i would be on a highway (using the emergency break would also be dangerous).

Car started as normal in the morning. As soon as i placed the car in reverse, the car started moving even though i had my foot on the brake and the emergency brake was engaged. I pressed the brake pedal all the way to the floor and then the car came to a halt. There was lot of strange, loud clunking and chattering noises while trying to brake. I then put the car in forward gear and again the car started moving forward without any pressure on the accelerator and i had to push the brake pedal all the way to the floor to get car to stop. I turned off the car and performed a visual inspection under the car and under to bonnet to see if anything is leaking or visually broken - nothing found. Restarted the car and there was a yellow "brake system warning light" but brake function was restored and no more strange sounds. I came to work and turned off the car. After 30 mins turned on the car again and yellow "brake system warning light" had cleared and car was again operating as normal.

While i was driving on a city street at about 40mph, the abs light came on and the brakes became completely unresponsive. Pushing on the break pedal would not slow the car down. After being able to come to a stop using the emergency brake i notices that the brake would keep rumble but still unable to keep the car at a stand still. This is the second this happens in about 8 weeks. This time i am reporting it. The car has 37,000 miles.

I drove my vehicle to my children's daycare a few miles from my home, parked, and turned off the car. When i went to start the car to leave, i heard a strange buzzing type sound at startup, and then got a bunch of warning lights for the brakes and traction control. I turned the vehicle off and on a few times to try to get the warnings to clear. I noticed the buzzing sound was coming from when i pressed the brake pedal. I tried to get the vehicle to go into neutral but it wouldn't. Then i tried putting it in drive, and it did go into drive, but started drifting backwards because i was parked on a slope. This is the scary part that could have injured someone. I was in a daycare parking lot and someone could have walked behind my car at the time it drifted back. Thankfully that did not happen. I mashed on the brake to stop the car, and it did stop but required more brake travel and made some grinding noises, like the abs was operating. After i realized i had a major problem, i searched the internet and found some people on forums with similar issues. I tried disconnecting the 12v battery for a few minutes, a couple of times, but couldn't get the brake alarms to go away. So i got it towed to my dealer. Dealer was busy and didn't get to look at the car for two-three days. They said that when they turned on the car they didn't see anything wrong. I asked them if they saw any codes, and they checked and they found codes for the can communication and intelligent brake system. The service advisor called this a "fluke" and said that the car was safe to drive. However, i am reading that there are many reports of the same problem with this model year leaf. I do not feel safe driving this car, especially not with my children in it. What if the "fluke" comes back while i am driving down the road and can't safely stop in time? The contact stated since replacing the intelligent brake module at the owners expense the problem has been resolved.

I drove my vehicle to my children's daycare a few miles from my home, parked, and turned off the car. When i went to start the car to leave, i heard a strange buzzing type sound at startup, and then got a bunch of warning lights for the brakes and traction control. I turned the vehicle off and on a few times to try to get the warnings to clear. I noticed the buzzing sound was coming from when i pressed the brake pedal. I tried to get the vehicle to go into neutral but it wouldn't. Then i tried putting it in drive, and it did go into drive, but started drifting backwards because i was parked on a slope. This is the scary part that could have injured someone. I was in a daycare parking lot and someone could have walked behind my car at the time it drifted back. Thankfully that did not happen. I mashed on the brake to stop the car, and it did stop but required more brake travel and made some grinding noises, like the abs was operating. After i realized i had a major problem, i searched the internet and found some people on forums with similar issues. I tried disconnecting the 12v battery for a few minutes, a couple of times, but couldn't get the brake alarms to go away. So i got it towed to my dealer. Dealer was busy and didn't get to look at the car for two-three days. They said that when they turned on the car they didn't see anything wrong. I asked them if they saw any codes, and they checked and they found codes for the can communication and intelligent brake system. The service advisor called this a "fluke" and said that the car was safe to drive. However, i am reading that there are many reports of the same problem with this model year leaf. I do not feel safe driving this car, especially not with my children in it. What if the "fluke" comes back while i am driving down the road and can't safely stop in time?

When applying the brakes while moving in any forward direction and the vehicle rolls over a pothole (or similar feature) the brakes instantly become soft. The vehicle doesn't slow at the anticipated rate and additional pressure needs to be applied to the brake pedal to slow or not increase speed.

When applying the brakes while moving in any forward direction and the vehicle rolls over a pothole (or similar feature) the brakes instantly become soft. The vehicle doesn't slow at the anticipated rate and additional pressure needs to be applied to the brake pedal to slow or not increase speed.

Car was driven about 3.5 miles to the store and parked. After shopping, when the car was started the abs braking system had completely failed with no resistance to pressure on the brake pedal. A clicking sound was heard and pulsing was felt with no braking provided. Later in the day, the car was started again and the brakes appeared to work normally. Outside temperature at the time of the incident was between 0 & 10 degrees f.

Car was driven about 3.5 miles to the store and parked. After shopping, when the car was started the abs braking system had completely failed with no resistance to pressure on the brake pedal. A clicking sound was heard and pulsing was felt with no braking provided. Later in the day, the car was started again and the brakes appeared to work normally. Outside temperature at the time of the incident was between 0 & 10 degrees f.

Common OBD-II Error Codes

• B00A0 [4] Occupant Classification System (Subfault)
• B2840 [1] B2840
• B29C1 [1] B29C1
• P18A5 [1] P18A5
• B2190 [1] Window Passenger Rear Remote Up Switch Short to Battery
• P0A94 [1] DC/DC Converter Performance
• B2902 [1] B2902
• U1000 [1] CAN bus network code
• U1001 [1] SCP (J1850) Invalid or Missing Data for Primary Id
• U1002 [1] SCP (J1850) Invalid or Missing Data for Primary Id
• U1010 [1] SCP (J1850) Invalid or Missing Data for Engine Air Intake
• P0456 [3] Evaporative Emissions System Small Leak Detected
• P0442 [2] Evaporative Emission Control System Leak Detected (small leak)
• P0455 [2] Evaporative Emission Control System Leak Detected (gross leak)
• P0603 [1] Internal Control Module Keep Alive Memory (KAM) Error
• P2138 [2] Throttle/Pedal Pos Sensor/Switch D / E Voltage Correlation
• P5327 [1] P5327