Nissan Altima, Nissan Frontier, Nissan Kicks, Nissan Sentra, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 21 January 2026. 26,432 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2025 Altima, Sentra, 2025-2026 Frontier, and 2026 Kicks vehicles. The door strikers may have been improperly welded and break, allowing the door to open while moving. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V023 cover?
- Nissan Altima, Nissan Frontier, Nissan Kicks, Nissan Sentra, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2025 Altima, Sentra, 2025-2026 Frontier, and 2026 Kicks vehicles. The door strikers may have been improperly welded and break, allowing the door to open while moving.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A door that opens unexpectedly while the vehicle is in motion increases the risk of injury or a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the door strikers, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 17, 2026. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 800-647-7261. Nissan's numbers for this recall are PD185 and PMA61.
- 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: “A door that opens unexpectedly while the vehicle is in motion increases the risk of injury or a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V023 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Latches/Locks/Linkages:Doors:Latch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | NISSAN ALTIMA, NISSAN FRONTIER, NISSAN KICKS, NISSAN SENTRA |
What the notice says today
The defect
Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2025 Altima, Sentra, 2025-2026 Frontier, and 2026 Kicks vehicles. The door strikers may have been improperly welded and break, allowing the door to open while moving. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 206, "Door Locks and Door Retention Components."
The consequence
A door that opens unexpectedly while the vehicle is in motion increases the risk of injury or a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the door strikers, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 17, 2026. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 800-647-7261. Nissan's numbers for this recall are PD185 and PMA61. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning January 28, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 90de2a63db4c2f764b368120c8ff80e2…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 237 notices in the record whose component field names latches/locks/linkages. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Nissan Altima recalls: 33 US campaigns
- Nissan Frontier recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Nissan Kicks recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Nissan Sentra recalls: 29 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V023, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v023/
The copy quoted above hashes to 90de2a63db4c2f764b368120c8ff80e2…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Nissan notices we hold
- 26V526: 2025 Altima
- 26V455: 2020-2026 Nissan Armada, 2011-2013 Infiniti QX56, and 2014-2027 QX80
- 26V425: 2026 LEAF
- 26V419: 2026 Rogue
- 26V410: 2025 Nissan Sentra
- 26V331: 2025-2026 Kicks
- 26V230: 2009-2010 Cube
- 26V188: 2026 LEAF
All 253 Nissan 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 26V023 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
32f8c988 - Consequence
8876096c - 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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