2016 NISSAN SENTRA Recalls — Canada & USA

The 2016 Nissan Sentra has 6 recalls, the most serious involving the front passenger airbag system, which can fail to deploy correctly in a crash or leave a child in a front-seat car seat at greater risk of injury. Three separate airbag concerns affect this vehicle. The front passenger seat belt bracket can deform if used to anchor a child restraint, which means the airbag may deploy toward a child seat that has shifted out of position. Separately, a manufacturing defect in the airbag inflator can prevent the passenger frontal airbag from deploying at all, and a wiring harness connector for the passenger airbag can work partially loose, causing the second stage of the airbag to not fire in a crash. Two recalls share the same root problem: the brake light switch can fail, leaving the brake lights dark when the driver applies the brakes and making the vehicle's intentions invisible to traffic behind. On some vehicles, this switch failure can also prevent the engine from starting. There is also an electrical concern on vehicles built during a narrow two-week window in April 2016, where an oversized terminal pin in the engine wiring harness can lose its connection to the engine control unit, causing the engine to stall or refuse to start.