Owner-reported complaints naming the airbag system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the air-bag system — deployment behaviour, inflators, sensors and warning lights. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1996 Nissan Pathfinder submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 11 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
I TRIED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE NISSAN DEALER AND AFTER FINDING MY VEHICLE RETURN A POSITIVE AIRBAG RECALL ON AIRBAGRECALL.COM. THE LOCAL DEAL SAID IT IS NOT LISTED IN THEIR SYSTEM AND DID NOT OFFER TO LOOK INTO IT ANY FURTHER. I TOLD THEM THEY COULD LOOK IT UP ON AN INTERNET BASED SYSTEM TO SEE WHAT I WAS SEEING BUT THEY DECLINED. WILSON MOTOR COMPANY WILSON NISSAN 328 NORTH MAIN STREET, LOGAN (435) 752-7355
MOTOR REPLACED. MJS
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY, APPROXIMATELY 50-55 MPH ON WET ROAD CONDITIONS ALL OF SUDDEN THE VEHICLE HYDROPLANED, RESULTING IN ROLLOVER, AND VEHICLE LANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DIVIDER. AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY PROPERLY, CAUSING CHEMICAL TO LEAK OUT AND PARTLY DEFLATE THEM. DEALER/MANUFACTURER NOTIFIED AND REFUSED TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY, SEEKING HELP FROM NHTSA. *AK *ML
WHILE DRIVNG 30-35 MPH CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN A LEFT FRONT AND SIDE ACCIDENT IN WHICH THIRE WAS NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S OR PASSEGER'S SIDE AIRBAGS. CAUSE UNKNOWN. *AK
VEHICLE INVOLVED IN A COLLOSION. UPON IMPACT, THE AIRBAGS DEPLOYED. AIRBAG CHEMICALS BURNED THE DRIVER'S FACE/NECK AND HANDS. DRIVER ALSO RECEIVED ABRASIONS TO THE EYE. MANUFACTURER WILL BE NOTIFIED. *AK
DRIVER HANDS SUFFERED 2ND DEGREE BURNS WHEN AIR BAG DEPLOYED.
NO DEPLOYMENT OF AIR BAG IN AN ACCIDENT.
WHEEL BEARING NUTS AND BOLTS FAILED.
OTHER: DRIVER'S SIDE AIRBAG SENSOR FAILED TWICE.
DURING FRONTAL IMPACT, THE DRIVER'S AND PASSENGER'S SIDE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK
THERE WERE FUMES COMING FROM THE TRUCK CAUSED DRIVER AND PASSENGER TO PASS OUT, VEHICLE HIT UNDDERPASS, NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AND PASSSENGER'S AIR BAGS DURING ACCIDENT, RESULTIN GIN INJURIES TO BOTH. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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