2019 NISSAN LEAF — Complaint #1769926
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: CAMERA SYSTEM filed September 23, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1769926 (ODI reference 11434145) concerns a 2019 NISSAN LEAF and was filed on September 23, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2020. The report was geocoded to Colorado based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: camera system, 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 LEAF cohort independently describe similar back over prevention: camera system 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 2019 NISSAN LEAF shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The Backup Camera only works intermittently and if it is not working it will not begin working again unless the car is completely turned off and restarted. The failure seems more likely to occur if the car is started and then quickly put into reverse. The failure seems less likely to occur, but still does periodically, if the car is started and then not put into motion until 10-20 sec after the dash start-up graphics have finished. When the camera is failing the display is solid magenta colored with static-lines scrolling through it. The safety issue is that the rear camera cannot be used. We have not yet shown this problem to anyone else. There were no warning lights or alarms indicating a failure. The failure occurrence was very infrequent when we bought the car (new) in 2019, but now is happening at least 50% of the time that we back out of our garage.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1769926 |
| ODI Number | 11434145 |
| Date Filed | September 23, 2021 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 1N4BZ1CP4KC |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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