Nissan Kicks, Nissan Sentra, model year 2026. Filed by Nissan North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 March 2026. 15 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2026 Kicks and Sentra vehicles. The hook bracket of the front seat frames may be insufficiently welded, which can cause the front seat frames to become loose. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard …
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: PMA64. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V145 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 26V145 cover?
- Nissan Kicks, Nissan Sentra, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2026 Kicks and Sentra vehicles. The hook bracket of the front seat frames may be insufficiently welded, which can cause the front seat frames to become loose.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loose seat may not restrain the occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the front seat assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 18, 2026. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 800-647-7261. Nissan's number for this recall is PMA64.
- 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 PMA64, 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 loose seat may not restrain the occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 26V145 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | NISSAN KICKS, NISSAN SENTRA |
What the notice says today
The defect
Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) is recalling certain 2026 Kicks and Sentra vehicles. The hook bracket of the front seat frames may be insufficiently welded, which can cause the front seat frames to become loose. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 207, "Seating Systems" and 210, "Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages."
The consequence
A loose seat may not restrain the occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the front seat assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 18, 2026. Owners may contact Nissan's customer service at 800-647-7261. Nissan's number for this recall is PMA64. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 13, 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 e60e447c5d92aa267c7996656ef8ec6d…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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 26V145, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v145/
The copy quoted above hashes to e60e447c5d92aa267c7996656ef8ec6d…. 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.
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- 26V425: 2026 LEAF
- 26V419: 2026 Rogue
- 26V410: 2025 Nissan Sentra
- 26V331: 2025-2026 Kicks
- 26V230: 2009-2010 Cube
- 26V188: 2026 LEAF
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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 26V145 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
290b0728 - Consequence
4cd1ebf6 - 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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