2013 Nissan Sentra defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2013 Nissan Sentra. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Occupant Classification System Failure
  Engineering Analysis EA15004 · opened Aug 31, 2015 · closed May 2, 2017 · led to recall 16V244000

  In May 2016, Nissan North America issued a safety recall (16V-244) to address the problem of improper classification of adult front seat passengers in approximately 3.3 million vehicles, including those in the scope of this investigation when it was opened (almost one million vehicles) and additional vehicles, as shown…

• Occupant Classification System Failure
  Recall Query RQ15001 · opened Mar 18, 2015 · closed Sep 1, 2015

  In April 2014, Nissan North America launched Safety Recall 14V-138 to address problems with the Occupant Classification System (OCS) algorithm in the following vehicles: model year (MY) 2013-2014 Nissan Altima, Pathfinder, Sentra and LEAF; MY 2013 Infiniti JX35; MY 2014 Infiniti QX60 and Q50; and MY 2013 Nissan NV 200/…

• Excessive Brake Pedal Travel
  Preliminary Evaluation PE14014 · opened May 20, 2014 · closed May 13, 2015

  On May 20, 2014, ODI opened PE14-014 based on eight complaints alleging incidents of excessive brake pedal travel in model year (MY) 2013 through 2014 Nissan Sentra, Versa Sedan and Versa Note passenger cars (Figure 1) and information in Early Warning Reporting field reports indicating issues with master cylinder inter…