2015 NISSAN ALTIMA — Complaint #1780323
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:DRIVER filed November 26, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1780323 (ODI reference 11441731) concerns a 2015 NISSAN ALTIMA and was filed on November 26, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 2, 2017. The vehicle had 30,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:sensor:occupant classification:driver, 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 ALTIMA cohort independently describe similar air bags:sensor:occupant classification:driver 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 2015 NISSAN ALTIMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Nissan Altima. The contact stated while driving with a passenger seated in the front passengerâs seat, the air bag warning light illuminated with the âAir Bag Offâ message displayed. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The contact took the vehicle to a local dealer who inspected the vehicle and stated that the air bag switch needed to be reconnected. The switch was reconnected to attempt to fix the failure however, the failure reoccurred. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 30,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1780323 |
| ODI Number | 11441731 |
| Date Filed | November 26, 2021 |
| Failure Date | July 2, 2017 |
| VIN | 1N4AL3AP7FC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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