Nissan Recalls Close To 4 Million Vehicles

Passenger air bags and seat belts could fail.

The cars could have an issue with a sensor that detects whether the front passenger seat is occupied, and also whether that passenger is a child or an adult.

If the sensors that are defective, the air bag either might think that an adult is a child, or might think the passenger seat is empty thus turning off the air bag.

Certian vehicles of the following models are being recalled:

2016-2017 Nissan Maxima, 2013-2016 Nissan Altima, NV200, LEAF and Sentra, 2013-2017 Nissan Pathfinder, 2014-2016 Nissan NV200 Taxi, Infiniti QX60 and Q50, 2014-2017 Nissan Rogue, 2015-2016 Nissan Murano, Chevrolet City Express and 2013 Infiniti JX35 vehicles.

Owners of these Nissan vehicles will be notified of the problem, and do the repairs for free. No schedule has yet been made for when these notices will be distributed, or how fast the repairs can be made.

In a related story, Nissan is also recalling another 620,000 of its 2013-2016 Sentras.

In these cars, the air bag sensor has the opposite problem: It isn't shutting off when it should be. Nissan said the front passenger seat belt bracket may become deformed if it is used to secure a child restraint system. That deformed seat bracket might then cause the air bag not to shut off when it should be off.

Nissan has not yet figured out how to fix the problem and is warning owners not to install child restraint systems in the front seats.

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