2017 Nissan Titan defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2017 Nissan Titan. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Loss of motive power due to broken crankshaft with no ability to restart.
  Preliminary Evaluation PE23020 · opened Nov 15, 2023 · closed Jun 27, 2025

  On November 15, 2023, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation PE23020 to investigate allegations of loss of motive power in model year (MY) 2016 through 2019 Nissan Titan XD trucks equipped with 5.0L Cummins diesel engines. The complaints allege the condition was due to a failure of the …

• Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
  Engineering Analysis EA21002 · opened Sep 17, 2021 · still open

  From 2000 through 2017, Takata produced millions of air bag inflators using two types of phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate ("PSAN") propellant -- propellant 2004 and propellant 2004L. After prolonged exposure to high temperature cycles and humidity, inflators using propellant 2004 can degrade, causing the propellant to…