Chevrolet City Express, Infiniti Jx35, Infiniti Q50, Infiniti Q50 Hybrid, Infiniti Qx60, Infiniti Qx60 Hybrid, model years 2013 to 2017. Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 April 2016. 3,296,947 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Nissan Maxima, 2013-2016 Nissan Altima, NV200, LEAF, Sentra, and Pathfinder, 2014-2016 Nissan NV200 Taxi, Infiniti QX60, QX60 Hybrid, and Q50 Hybrid, 2014-2017 Nissan Rogue and Infiniti Q50, 2015-2016 Nissan Murano, Murano Hybrid, and …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 16V244 cover?
- Chevrolet City Express, Infiniti JX35, Infiniti Q50, Infiniti Q50 Hybrid, Infiniti QX60, Infiniti QX60 Hybrid, Nissan Altima, Nissan Leaf, model years 2013-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 Nissan Maxima, 2013-2016 Nissan Altima, NV200, LEAF, Sentra, and Pathfinder, 2014-2016 Nissan NV200 Taxi, Infiniti QX60, QX60 Hybrid, and Q50 Hybrid, 2014-2017 Nissan Rogue and Infiniti Q50, 2015-2016 Nissan Murano,...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- 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.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Nissan will notify their owners. Chevrolet City Express owners will be notified by General Motors.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “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.”
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 16V244 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Sensor:Occupant Classification |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 April 2016 |
| Model years | 2013-2017 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET CITY EXPRESS, INFINITI JX35, INFINITI Q50, INFINITI Q50 HYBRID, INFINITI QX60, INFINITI QX60 HYBRID, NISSAN ALTIMA, NISSAN LEAF, NISSAN MAXIMA, NISSAN MURANO, NISSAN MURANO HYBRID, NISSAN NV200, NISSAN NV200 TAXI, NISSAN PATHFINDER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
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.
The remedy
Nissan will notify their owners. Chevrolet City Express owners will be notified by General Motors. Dealers will reprogram the Air Bag Control Unit (ACU) and OCS Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in Altima, Maxima, Murano, Rogue, and Sentra vehicles, and replace the OCS ECU in LEAF, NV200, NV200 Taxi, Pathfinder, Infiniti Q50, JX35, and QX60 and Chevrolet City Express vehicles, free of charge. Interim notices were sent to owners on May 31, 2016. Owners will receive a second notice when remedy parts become available. Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1-800-867-7669, Infiniti customer service at 1-888-833-3216 or Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Infiniti JX35 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Infiniti Q50 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Infiniti Q50 Hybrid recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Infiniti QX60 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Infiniti QX60 Hybrid recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Nissan Altima recalls: 33 US campaigns
- Nissan Leaf recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Nissan Maxima recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Nissan Murano recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Nissan Murano Hybrid recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Nissan NV200 Taxi recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Nissan Pathfinder recalls: 32 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 16V244, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v244/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 16V244 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3626c829 - Consequence
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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