Nissan Motor Co. has announced that it will recall 539,864 vehicles to inspect brake pedal pins and fuel-gauge components on certain trucks and minivans.
Nissan has noticed that the brake-pedal pins in some of its vehicle models have partially engaged, causing a loss of normal breaking ability. The problem is related to a manufacturing error on the part of the supplier. The faulty makes include Nissan Titan, Armada, Quest and Infiniti QX56 of 2008–2010 model years.
Yet another set of models have problems related to fuel gauges that incorrectly indicate the amount of fuel is in the tank. This could cause a vehicle to run out of fuel before the gauge reads empty. This set includes Nissan Titan, Armada and Infiniti QX56 and Nissan Frontier of 2005–2008 model years as well as Pathfinders and Xterras that were produced between January and March 2006 and between October 2007 and January 2008.
However, the Japanese automaker has revealed that the vehicles that are on sale are free of these problems. So far, no injuries or accidents were reported related to the recalls.
Vehicle recalls have become the talk of the town after Toyota Motors’ (TM) recent announcement of largest-ever global recall of 8.5 million vehicles related to problems with accelerator gas pedals and braking systems. The recall included popular models such as the 2010 Prius hybrid and Toyota Camry.
In February, Toyota’s sales fell 9% to 100,027 vehicles in the U.S. However, Nissan Motors lagged Toyota in terms of market share despite clocking the highest sales growth among its Japanese peers in the U.S.
Nissan Motor has reported a 29.4% rise in sales to 70,189 units in February with a market share of 9% (as per Autodata reports) as Versa subcompact sales doubled. Nissan Division sales rose 31.9% for the month, while sales of Infiniti vehicles were 10.7% higher than the year-ago level.
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