Tl* the contact owned a 2006 nissan frontier. While the contact's vehicle was stationary, a second vehicle crashed into the rear of the vehicle. The contact's vehicle was pushed into a third vehicle, which caused significant damage to the front end. The air bags failed to deploy. The driver sustained injuries to the hands, back, and head and was transported to the hospital. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed and towed. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 93,000. Updated 10/05/16*lj
2006 Nissan Frontier airbags complaints
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My friend and I were traveling on the I-40e in new mexico. He was driving my truck and feel asleep at the wheel. He woke up and oversteered and caused us to crash my truck into the right side highway ditch at about 70 miles per hour. We hit first with the front right of my truck and then tumbled 3 times smashing all sides of the truck especially the front. We had our seat belts on so we weren't ejected, but air bags never deployed. My dog was in the backseat of the 4 door truck and was ejected and died shortly after. I sustained several injuries to my face, head, arms, shoulders, and back.
Weather turned from rain to icy. South bound on street that overpass interstate. Truck spun around several times first in south bound lane hitting guard rail on west side, went over the curb and median into north bound lane spin again before coming to rest against 4ft high concrete divider on bridge. The driver side air bag is the only one that deployed. My wife was in passenger seat. No other air bags deployed. This truck had dual stage supplemental front air bags and nissan aabs.. Thankfully our seat belts were probably what protected us from being thrown from the truck. As I stated only the air bag in steering wheel deployed. This should be looked into with all the recalls going on. I had not received any notice about this problem. I went to emergency room the following tuesday to get xray of chest because of pain. My wife went to her dr also.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan frontier. The contact stated that the air bag warning lamp illuminated. Also, the contact mentioned that after refueling, the fuel gauge stayed on empty. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The air bag sensor and the fuel level sensor were defective and needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 37,000.
The red air bag warning light came on and has remained on. Additionally, the round yellow light on the lower part of the dash shows passenger seat air bag not on both when occupied and unoccupied. I have attempted to have national parts shop chains attempt to determine the reason, but they all say they cannot do so. The dealer's cost for any readouts is always cost prohibitive.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan frontier. The contact stated that while driving 5 MPH a vehicle crashed into the rear of her vehicle causing her to crash into an embankment and the air bag failed to deploy. The contact sustained a one inch laceration over her eye, a black eye and bruising. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 65,000. Updated 11/28/12*lj the consumer stated the seat belt failed to restrain her. Updated 12/3/2012 *js the vehicle was totaled. Updated 02/14/13 the consumer stated the passenger seat belt/ air bag assembly was found to be defective in january 2012, and was replaced under warranty. It may also suggest the possibility of a defect on the driver's side. Updated 07/01/13
Air bag front sensor failure at 38000 miles, failure of fuel system evaporation valve at 38500 miles. Failure of rear differential seal at 42,000 miles, failure of rear axle bearing seals, gear oil to leaking on parking brake shoes causing slippage at 48,500. Truck has 49,000 as of 3/24/2012.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan frontier. The contact stated there was a sensor interruption in the air bag which caused the light to illuminate on the instrument panel. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer and was told that the failure was caused by the crash zone sensor housing and needed to be replaced. There was also a the federal safety agency recall campaign id number: 08v690000 (air bag: frontal) which included a repair for the failure, but the contact was told the vehicle was not included. The failure mileage was 80,000 and the current mileage was 100,000.
My husband was driving his 2006 nissan frontier and was about to merge onto the highway when the car in front of him threw on his brakes. He was only driving at less than 10 MPH and tapped the car in front of him. The driver's front airbag deployed smacking him in the face. No one could ever explain why it would deploy with such a light impact. Fyi passenger side front air bag did not deploy!
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan frontier. While parked the contact notice the air bag light illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for a diagnostic. The technicians stated the air bag sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 30,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan frontier. The contact stated that the air bag warning lamp was illuminated. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for repairs nor was the failure reported to the manufacturer. The failure and current mileage was 30,000.
I was driving my truck (nissan frontier) last night when all of a sudden the airbag light came on while driving. This light will not go off. Then when I took the truck to the dealership today I was told that I would have to pay for the cost to repair the airbag component and they wanted over 400 dollars to fix the issue. They stated that they did not have the part and it is okay to drive the truck the way it is. I do not feel safe any longer in this truck.
Hit by a sheriff car and was flipped 3 times in a nissan frontier nismo....supposedly with front and side air bags along with roll over air bags. Not one deployed. Had to get cut out of car and flown into trauma room. In and out of conscience and not feeling legs. Now severe back and neck pain. Sore abdomens and lower disc disease. Nothing done to correct problem.
Was driving down a washboard part of a dirt road in route to 4wheel like I normally do and the 2006 frontier nismo curtain airbags deployed for no reason other then the system believed it was rolling over. This was out in the middle of nowhere away from cell coverage so no police report could be made. I have noticed many threads of xterras and frontiers online that have been getting this problem including a youtube video of an xterras deploying. Nothing has been done yet the vehicle is sitting in front of my house as I decide weather there is a buildable case against nissan or to give up and try for repairs somewhere, the insurance estimate is ~4,000$ usd. Both side curtain airbags, seat damage, seatbelts broken.
My girlfriend and I were driving down a washboard farm type road and randomly our side curtain airbags went off on both sides causing severe soft tissue damage in our necks and anxiety / being terrified of the truck. Currently looking into personal injury and filed with insurance company. The area we were in was an area with no cell service and quite far from the nearest town and with the airbags breaking the seatblets etc it was a very unsafe drive.
My son was turning around our 2006 frontier nismo off road 4wd on a rutted dirt road at a speed of no more than 15 MPH when the rollover airbags, on both sides, deployed without warning. Nissan of american investigated. Below is a portion of nissan's letter to me. I will forward via us mail a complete copy of this letter to the federal safety agency: "air bags must be made so that they inflate fast enough in a severe accident. The speed at which an air bag inflates and then deflates is similar in all designs. Air bags are designed to inflate in less than 1/20 of a second. Air bags are predictive. The signal which is sent to the sensor in some underbody impacts is very similar to the signal sent to the sensor in rollover situation. Both diagnostic and visual checks confirmed that there was no evidence of a problem with the air bag or seat belt systems in your vehicle." as a result of nissan's design, a side air bag sensor, 2 rollover air bag assemblies, 2 seat belt assemblies, a headliner and plastic trim items were replaced. The old parts, exclusive of the headliner, are available. On the rear quarter panel, the vehicle is labeled "off road" and is clearly intended for that use according to nissan''s advertising. Nissan's own statement proves that their control system for rollover airbags is defective in that their rollover air bags may deploy because the "signal which is sent to the sensor in some underbody impacts is very similar to the signal sent to the sensor in rollover situation"'. Consumers rely on nissan to design a rollover air bag system that deploys in the event of a rollover, not a defective design which causes an underbody impact to initiate an unnecessary rollover airbag deployment. Rollover air bags that operate in a manner unpredictable by the consumer are not safe. Nissan should redesign this system on future vehicles and recall current vehicles to make the needed changes, before people are injured by airbags that needlessly deploy. *nm updated.
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