Nissan Leaf 2017

• Recall 233924 [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.

• Recall 122203 [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.

• Recall R/2017/173 [UK]: Headlamp auto aim function may not operate
  Due to a non confromity in production the headlamp auto aim function may not operate
  reconfigure and then reinitialise the headlamp leveliser control unit on affected vehicles.

• 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.

• 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.

To ensure accuracy and for your safety, it is recommended to do a free VIN recall check here or here [USA] - UK - Canada.

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 as of 20230127

  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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Common OBD Error codes specific to this vehicle.

• B00A0 [4] Occupant Classification System (Subfault)
• 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
• P5655 [1] P5655

Hello! I have my 2017 nissan leaf sv with 30kwh battery in at nissan of troy, mainly due to two problems. This is a 2017 nissan leaf with 30kwh batte hello! I have my 2017 nissan leaf sv with 30kwh battery in at nissan of troy, mainly due to two problems. This is a 2017 nissan leaf with 30kwh battery with a dc-fc fast charge plug that's supposed to be able to charge the battery roughly 15x faster than 6.6k level2/3 chargers. The key two problems are as follows: a. Dcfc fails to charge on 2017 nissan leaf and causes j1772 to be unable to charge it anymore subsequently getting a charge in a pinch leads to really needing a tow truck!! B. The range on the battery drops drastically on a regular day to day drive... The other day i left for a 4.5mile trip with 17miles on gom and by time i drove 2 miles range went down to 11miles. Before i was 1/2 way low battery indicator went off and ~1.5miles to home very low battery kicks in. - i believe the car gom always over estimates the range to what i'm able to drive. It can never drive up to the suggested range so i must have either a bad battery or a faulty battery management module of some sorts ???

Hello! I have my 2017 nissan leaf sv with 30kwh battery in at nissan of troy, mainly due to two problems. This is a 2017 nissan leaf with 30kwh batte hello! I have my 2017 nissan leaf sv with 30kwh battery in at nissan of troy, mainly due to two problems. This is a 2017 nissan leaf with 30kwh battery with a dc-fc fast charge plug that's supposed to be able to charge the battery roughly 15x faster than 6.6k level2/3 chargers. The key two problems are as follows: a. Dcfc fails to charge on 2017 nissan leaf and causes j1772 to be unable to charge it anymore subsequently getting a charge in a pinch leads to really needing a tow truck!! B. The range on the battery drops drastically on a regular day to day drive... The other day i left for a 4.5mile trip with 17miles on gom and by time i drove 2 miles range went down to 11miles. Before i was 1/2 way low battery indicator went off and ~1.5miles to home very low battery kicks in. - i believe the car gom always over estimates the range to what i'm able to drive. It can never drive up to the suggested range so i must have either a bad battery or a faulty battery management module of some sorts ???

A sudden loss of propulsion with out an audible warning. The vehicle operates at creep speed. I notice it because the can not accelerate. A moment of confusion sets in in trying to figure out what is going on. A tell tale light of a turtle comes on. I have to work my way through traffic to pull on the side of the road. This is a concern on a busy highway. The tell tale light goes away after cycling the power by turning the car off and starting it all over. It gives me the impression that the trouble went away. This issue occurred once a year. I didn't think much of it. It is now happening once a week in the past two months. Someone can get hurt in the worst case scenario. I believe the warning light should remain on until the issue is resolved. I noticed the issue happens when the climate is hot and i am driving with the ac on. The battery temperature is in the safe zone. Nissan didn't take it seriously. I took a picture of it.

A sudden loss of propulsion with out an audible warning. The vehicle operates at creep speed. I notice it because the can not accelerate. A moment of confusion sets in in trying to figure out what is going on. A tell tale light of a turtle comes on. I have to work my way through traffic to pull on the side of the road. This is a concern on a busy highway. The tell tale light goes away after cycling the power by turning the car off and starting it all over. It gives me the impression that the trouble went away. This issue occurred once a year. I didn't think much of it. It is now happening once a week in the past two months. Someone can get hurt in the worst case scenario. I believe the warning light should remain on until the issue is resolved. I noticed the issue happens when the climate is hot and i am driving with the ac on. The battery temperature is in the safe zone. Nissan didn't take it seriously. I took a picture of it.

When driving our nissan leaf from 4000 feet altitude up to about 7000 feet altitude (about 2500 feet altitude change), something under the left rear passenger side of the car (behind the driver) makes a loud bang and can be felt through the foot-well or floor. This happens every time we drive the same section of road, which is usually twice a week. Internet research suggests other nissan leaf owners have had the same issue and at altitude, and that it may be a issue with compression and expansion of the battery case. I have reported this before, but am reporting it again as it continues to occur. *tr

When driving our nissan leaf from 4000 feet altitude up to about 7000 feet altitude (about 2500 feet altitude change), something under the left rear passenger side of the car (behind the driver) makes a loud bang and can be felt through the foot-well or floor. This happens every time we drive the same section of road, which is usually twice a week. Internet research suggests other nissan leaf owners have had the same issue and at altitude, and that it may be a issue with compression and expansion of the battery case. I have reported this before, but am reporting it again as it continues to occur. *tr

When driving our 2017 nissan leaf electric vehicle at about 65 mph up a steep hill / steep incline, we are experiencing a loud clunk from the battery area when the vehicle climbs over 2000ft elevation within a short distance (16 miles). The clunk always happens within the same 1 mile stretch of road and happens every time we drive the car from salt lake city, ut (4,226 feet) to summit park, ut (6,887 feet). We first noticed it this summer 2019. There is an audible clunk and it can be felt through the passenger foot-well behind the driver's seat. There is a thread on the mynissanleaf.Com discussion forum that describes the same issue (http://www.Mynissanleaf.Com/viewtopic.Php?F=30&t=19883&p=565545#P565545). The contributors think it has something to do with the electric battery case expanding or contracting under pressure. I'm planning on letting the nissan dealership know and pointing them to the discussion forum (the discussion information is here: http://www.Mynissanleaf.Com/viewtopic.Php?F=30&t=19883&p=565545#P565545)

Brake failure at low speeds. In the last eight months i have owned this vehicle, twice the car failed to stop when i applied brakes. I was going at around 20-25 mph in both the cases.

When turning left the visibility is very poor for a 5' 1" driver. The double "a" pillar and large side view mirror block the driver's visibility and caused an accident. Several other people also complained about the visibility almost causing accidents on a leaf blog website. The accident happened when turning left at a busy intersection and an old lady fell because the leaf driver did not see the pedestrian soon enough due to poor visibility on a clear day around noon. The leaf had stopped waiting for 3 vehicles to pass before making the left turn at a slow speed but the large double "a" pillar and large side mirror blocked the driver's view.

When turning left the visibility is very poor for a 5' 1" driver. The double "a" pillar and large side view mirror block the driver's visibility and caused an accident. Several other people also complained about the visibility almost causing accidents on a leaf blog website. The accident happened when turning left at a busy intersection and an old lady fell because the leaf driver did not see the pedestrian soon enough due to poor visibility on a clear day around noon. The leaf had stopped waiting for 3 vehicles to pass before making the left turn at a slow speed but the large double "a" pillar and large side mirror blocked the driver's view.

I was driving very slowly in a parking lot, trying to find a place to park. When i was on the 4th floor i found a spot, made a right hand turn, and as i slowly turned into the spot i took my foot of of the accelerator to put my foot on the brake, the car accelerated and caused more than $16,000 worth of damage to my car. I have leased this car since aug, 2017. Before that i leased a 2015 nissan leaf and never had any problems with the care.

This is a new car less than 4 weeks old. There is a problem with the rear hatch not closing properly due to poor alignment during assembly. It is very difficult to get the hatch to close and latch properly and you have to really slam it. Even when you think it is closed, it can pop open when driving, particularly on a bumpy or potholed road. It has yet to open fully, but it is very unnerving on the freeway. We have an appointment with the dealer to get fixed, but they said it is a common problem on the 2017's.

Seat belt(behind the driver) can not pull out smoothly, it is easy to stuck.