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NISSAN LEAF

2013 NISSAN LEAF

5 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations, 120 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations3
Owner complaints120
Complaints citing a crash17
Complaints citing a fire2

Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.

Recall campaigns 5 of 5

23V2960002023-04-26

EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL

Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.

16V2440002016-04-26

AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION

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.

16V1190002016-02-29

SERVICE BRAKES

If the brake relay fails, longer distances or additional brake effort would be required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.

14V1380002014-03-25

AIR BAGS:FRONTAL

If the OCS does not detect an adult occupant in the passenger seat, the passenger airbag would be deactivated. Failure of the passenger airbag to deploy during a crash (where deployment is warranted) could increase the risk of injury to the passenger.

13V0690002013-03-01

AIR BAGS

If the vehicle is involved in a crash necessitating airbag deployment and the passenger airbag is suppressed, there may be an increased risk of personal injury.

What owners report most

  • 32SERVICE BRAKES
  • 18ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 17AIR BAGS
  • 10UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 5VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
  • 4FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
  • 4SEAT BELTS
  • 4STEERING

This page is about a model, not a car

Two 2013 NISSAN LEAFs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.

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