# NHTSA recall 14V668000

A recall listed here may apply to a vehicle of this year, make and model. Only the manufacturer can say whether it applies to one vehicle: check the VIN with the official lookups.

- Published by: NHTSA \(United States\)
- Campaign number: 14V668000
- Manufacturer: Nissan North America, Inc.
- Reported: 2014\-10\-24
- Owners notified: 2014\-12\-01
- Component: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- Units potentially affected: 1848

## What is wrong

Nissan North America, Inc. \(Nissan\) is recalling certain model year 2013 Infiniti QX56 vehicles manufactured September 1, 2012, to April 26, 2013, and 2014 Infiniti QX80 vehicles manufactured June 18, 2013, to February 11, 2014.  In the affected vehicles, the driver's frontal air bag inflator may have been manufactured with an incorrect part.


## What can happen

In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's air bag, the incorrect part may block the flow of propellant to the air bag and the air bag's inflator may rupture.  The rupture could cause metal fragments to strike and potentially seriously injure the vehicle occupants.


## The remedy

Nissan will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front driver air bag inflator, free of charge.  The recall began on December 1, 2014.  Owners may contact Nissan customer service at 1\-800\-647\-7261.


## Notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1\-888\-327\-4236 \(TTY 1\-800\-424\-9153\), or go to www.safercar.gov.


## Remedy progress the manufacturer reported

- Report: Quarterly report 6, for 2016 quarter 1
- Filed with NHTSA: 2016\-04\-22
- Vehicles in the campaign: 1848
- Reported remedied: 1608 \(87%\)
- Reported unreachable: 0
- Reported removed: 0

These are the manufacturer's totals for the whole campaign at the end of 2016 quarter 1, as filed with NHTSA. They do not say whether one vehicle has been remedied: check the VIN with the official lookups. The reports are from data as of 2026\-10\-19.

## Vehicles this campaign lists

- [2013 INFINITI QX56](/makes/infiniti/qx56/2013/recalls.md). Built 2012\-09\-01 to 2013\-04\-26.
- [2014 INFINITI QX80](/makes/infiniti/qx80/2014/recalls.md). Built from 2013\-06\-18.

## Investigated as EA15001

This recall followed 1 NHTSA investigation. An investigation is NHTSA looking into a possible defect. It is not a finding that a defect exists, and it does not say that any one vehicle is affected.

- EA15001: Engineering analysis, opened 2015\-02\-24. Air Bag Inflator Rupture. AIR BAGS:FRONTAL; AIR BAGS.

From NHTSA's investigation file, as of 2026-10-19. JSON: [/v1/recalls/nhtsa/14V668000/investigations](/v1/recalls/nhtsa/14V668000/investigations)

## Check a VIN

- [NHTSA recall lookup by VIN, United States](https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls)
- [Transport Canada recall search, Canada](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/7/VRDB-BDRV/search-recherche/menu.aspx?lang=eng)

JSON: [/v1/recalls/nhtsa/14V668000](/v1/recalls/nhtsa/14V668000)

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