2018 NISSAN SENTRA — Complaint #1695222
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: SENSING SYSTEM: LIDAR filed September 25, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1695222 (ODI reference 11361094) concerns a 2018 NISSAN SENTRA and was filed on September 25, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 1, 2020. The vehicle had 53,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: sensing system: lidar, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN SENTRA cohort independently describe similar forward collision avoidance: sensing system: lidar failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 NISSAN SENTRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT'S MOTHER OWNS A 2018 NISSAN SENTRA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT RADAR OBSTRUCTION LIGHT FLASHED STATING THAT THE SYSTEM WAS UNAVAILABLE. NEITHER THE DEALER NOR THE MANUFACTURER WERE CONTACTED OR NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 53,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1695222 |
| ODI Number | 11361094 |
| Date Filed | September 25, 2020 |
| Failure Date | July 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 3N1AB7APXJY |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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