23V296000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL
Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.
2015 NISSAN LEAF
4 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation, 141 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints141
Complaints citing a crash9
Complaints citing a fire0
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 4 of 4
17V253000
AIR BAGS
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.
16V244000
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.
16V119000
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.
What owners report most
- 81SERVICE BRAKES
- 15ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 9UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 8AIR BAGS
- 8VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 3ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- 3POWER TRAIN
- 3ENGINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 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.