Recalls
| Campaign | Manufacturer | Manufacturing date | Type | # of units affected | Date Owner notified Mfg | Recall Initiated by | Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products | Report Recieved Date | Record Creation Date | Regulation Part Number | FMVSS Number | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISIBILITY - WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER - LINKAGES | ||||||||||||||||
| 98V093000 | NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. | from 11/01/1994 to 12/31/1997 | V (Vehicle) | 512387 | 08/14/1998 | MFR | NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. | 05/05/1998 | 05/06/1998 | |||||||
| Defect Summary | Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. water can enter and displace the grease in the wiper arm linkage ball joint where the wiper linkage attaches to the wiper motor linkage. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | This can result in gradual wear over a period of time inside the joint that could lead to the separation of the wiper linkage assembly from the wiper motor linkage at the ball joint. a loss of windshield wiper function can result in this separation occurs. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | To prevent grease from being washed out of the joint, the dealers will modify by adding a water diversion seal that will prevent water from entering the windshield wiper linkage ball joint area. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Owner notification is expected to begin august 14, 1998. due to the large number of vehicles involved, the owner mailing will be phased and will continue through december 31, 1998. owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact nissan at 1-800-647-7261.also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236). | |||||||||||||||
Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISIBILITY - WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER - LINKAGES | |||||
| 98V093 | 08/07/1998 | 6092407 | Voluntary safety recall campaign for potential of water entering wiper arm linkage ball joint, resulting gradual wear inside the joint and causing the wipers to stop working while they are being used which could result in an accident. *t | 12/07/2000 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISIBILITY - SUN ROOF ASSEMBLY | |||
| 07/01/1996 | 2 | 06/01/1996 | |
| Sunroof failed. | |||
| VISIBILITY - WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER | |||
| 10/24/2005 | 113000 | 1 | |
| Dt: the contact stated driver's side windshield wiper does not work. the passenger side windshield wiper will work intermittently. there was no forewarning prior to the wipers not working. there was recall 98v093000. he contacted the dealer, they stated it was too old of a recall in their database. *ak | |||
| 1 | |||
| Consumer noticed that while using windshield wipers and without any indication wipers would pause intermittently. *ak | |||
| 1 | |||
| While driving the windshield wipers failed to work. there was a recall campaign, but the consumer vehicle was not on recall. however, consumer is requesting an explanation and reimbursement from the manufacturer. *yh | |||
| VISIBILITY - WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER - LINKAGES | |||
| 11/10/2007 | 141500 | 3 | 01/10/2006 |
| Wiper arm linkage pops off as described in the recall section, both wipers become non-functional. local nissan dealer will not honor the recall, stating that my car does not have the defective part - no record of this recall being performed linked to this vin. *tr | |||
| 08/03/2006 | 128000 | 1 | 03/01/1997 |
| Dt*: the contact stated the wiper arm linkage disengaged without warning, while the windshield washer/wipers were activated. the vehicle was not inspected by a dealer. there was a nhtsa recall, # 98v093000, regarding the windshield washer/wiper arm linkage. the vehicle was not included in the recall due to the vin. the manufacturer was contacted. | |||
| 07/05/2006 | 141000 | 1 | 08/15/2005 |
| I own a 1996 nissan 200sx with . i purchased the car in late summer of 2005. on july 5 2006 my son was driving the car in a rain storm and the wipers stopped functioning. the next day he asked me to look at the car and i discovered the windshield wiper linkage had failed at the ball joint where the connecting rod from the motor joins the pivot rod for the wiper blades. i did a little research and discovered this problem was previously reported in nhtsa recall 98v093000. i contacted my local nissan dealer and i was told my vin had no outstanding recalls. i called nissan corp. and was told the same thing. however, nissan is going to pull the archives on my vehicle to see if it has been serviced for this recall. this process will take several days. even if this car was previously serviced for recall 98v093000, whatever fix was done obviously wasn't sufficient because the problem recurred. i consider this a serious problem because it could have caused a traffic accident. if my vin number turns out not to be part of the original recall group then i believe nissan should be required to expand the list of vehicles covered by this recall. *jb | |||
| 06/13/2005 | 100506 | 1 | 03/30/2004 |
| Driver side windshield wiper arm ball joint failed resulting in the inoperability of the driver side windshield wiper. according to the nhtsa website, there is a recall for this specific problem. nissan says this problem is vin number specific and my vin number is not included in the recall. my car has this very specific problem and we believe that it should be covered under the recall. the recall covers several years (1995 to 1998) of the manufacture of the car and mine is a 1996. about 500,000 of these cars were covered under the recall, why not mine? we almost lost control of the car in a rainstorm which could have killed us at the legal speed of 65 mph at the time of failure. | |||
| 11/24/2004 | 103000 | 1 | 10/31/1996 |
| Wipers stopped working while driving my vehicle in the first day of snow during very bad whether conditions. took the car to nissan, a 49.99 fee just to look at the car. left and went somewhere else were they made me aware of a recall on the problem and to go back to nissan for the repair which should be free of charge. after i returned to nissan the service representative made me aware that there was a recall on the problem, however only for certain cars of the same make and model but within a certain vin number range based on the manufacturer. in short, even thought it is the same problem on the same make and model car it was not cover. furthermore, the sale representative made a phone call to nissan to check and they would no something on friday november 26, 2004. i in dangerous and unsafe conditions was left to try to drive the car home. after i returned home, i called the nissan number listed on the recall (1-800-647-7261) and spoke with erica. erica created a file on this complaint and also informed me that my car was not covered even though a recall was issued on the same make and model car but not the vin number. at this point i informed her that i would be contacting the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline as instructed in the recall anyway, she stated that this was no something that she wanted me to do that in short, that i could just wait until the whether was dry and clear and go and pay for the repairs needed for my car. *nm | |||