Nissan Owners Still Having Airbag Problems After OCS Recall

It's March and that means it's time for Nissan's annual screwing up their airbags event. Just take a look at this not so glorious run from the last few years.

• March 2013 --- Nissan recalls 82,000 vehicles because the passenger side airbag could fail during a crash. No worries though, a fix is on the way ...
• March 2014 --- Nissan admits their fix for the previous recall didn't work and is forced to issue a 2nd recall. Oh, and they expanded the recall to include nearly 1 million vehicles overall. Well, at least they couldn't possibly get it wrong again ...
• March 2015 --- Nissan owners with "repaired" cars continue to complain that their airbags are not working. This leads to an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Son of a ...

Makes you scared for what's coming in March 2016.

About the Investigation ∞

NHTSA says they've received 124 complaints about the occupant classification system (OCS) in "repaired" vehicles following the recalls. Failures of the OCS could allow the airbag to deploy when a child is in the front seat or not deploy when it's an adult. The vehicles being investigated include:

• 2013-2014 Nissan Altima
• 2013-2014 Nissan LEAF
• 2013-2014 Nissan Pathfinder
• 2013-2014 Nissan Sentra
• 2013 Nissan NV200
• 2013 Infiniti JX35
• 2014 Infiniti Q50 and QX60

Right now the investigation is in the "recall query" stage. If anything comes of it, we'll let you know. In the meantime...

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Nissan's OCS is a POS

The occupant classification system (OCS) in many Nissan vehicles is so unreliable for the front passenger seat that you should probably think twice before calling 'shotgun.'