Nissan Leaf, model years 2018 to 2023. Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 February 2023. 64,732 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2018-2023 LEAF vehicles. The Owner's Manual instructions for defroster operation are incorrect, and may result in reduced defroster performance under specific conditions. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle …
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.
Nissan's own number for this recall: R22C5. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V048 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 23V048 cover?
- Nissan Leaf, model years 2018-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2018-2023 LEAF vehicles. The Owner's Manual instructions for defroster operation are incorrect, and may result in reduced defroster performance under specific conditions.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nissan will mail an addendum with updated instructions on how to operate the defroster, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed April 1, 2023. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is R22C5.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nissan calls this recall R22C5, 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: “Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V048 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Owners/Service/Other Manual |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 February 2023 |
| Model years | 2018-2023 |
| Vehicles named | NISSAN LEAF |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Reduced defroster performance can limit visibility out of the windshield, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Nissan will mail an addendum with updated instructions on how to operate the defroster, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed April 1, 2023. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 1-800-867-7669. Nissan's number for this recall is R22C5.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 23V048, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v048/
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.
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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 23V048 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
718942dc - Consequence
334a264c - Remedy
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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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