Infiniti Q50, Infiniti Q60, model year 2021. Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 4 April 2021. 12,943 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nissan North America, Inc. (INFINITI) is recalling certain 2021 INFINITI Q50 and Q60 vehicles. After detecting rapid acceleration, the Engine Control Module (ECM) may incorrectly reduce engine power and reduce fuel supply to the engine.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Infiniti's own number for this recall: R20C5. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V234 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 21V234 cover?
- Infiniti Q50, Infiniti Q60, model year 2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nissan North America, Inc. (INFINITI) is recalling certain 2021 INFINITI Q50 and Q60 vehicles. After detecting rapid acceleration, the Engine Control Module (ECM) may incorrectly reduce engine power and reduce fuel supply to the engine.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A lack of fuel may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. INFINITI will notify owners, and dealers will reprogram the ECM software, free of charge. The recall began on May 25, 2021. Owners may contact INFINITI customer service at 1-800-662-6200. INFINITI's number for this recall is R20C5.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Infiniti calls this recall R20C5, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
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: “A lack of fuel may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V234 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Engine Control Module (ECU/ECM):Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 April 2021 |
| Model years | 2021-2021 |
| Vehicles named | INFINITI Q50, INFINITI Q60 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A lack of fuel may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
INFINITI will notify owners, and dealers will reprogram the ECM software, free of charge. The recall began on May 25, 2021. Owners may contact INFINITI customer service at 1-800-662-6200. INFINITI's number for this recall is R20C5.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V234, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v234/
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.
Other Infiniti notices we hold
- 24V470: 2011-2013 M56, 2012-2013 M35 Hybrid, 2014-2018 Q50, Q70 Hybrid, 2014-2019 Q70, and 2015-2019 Q70L two-wheel drive
- 21V139: 2003 INFINITI FX35, 2006-2008 FX35 and FX45
- 21V025: 2020 INFINITI QX50
All 4 Infiniti campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 21V234 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
100867b5 - Consequence
9b6e0390 - Remedy
033b09b6
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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