Takata recall received air bag recall notice.same time airbag light started flashing on dash. took to dealer. charged $124 to diagnose air bag light. concluded seat belt. refused to reprogram air bag til seat belt replaced for $500. wrote to nissan consumer affairs. called me 4 times to discuss. final conclusion: vehicle too old to help me with repair. driving around with dangerous airbags.nissan will not fix air bag recall until i pay them to replace the seat belt. afraid to drive on uneven ground as warned by nissan in recall notice. why is airbag light flashing if it is not a warning about airbags? if there is a seatbelt malfunction why is the seatbelt light flashing. passenger seat belt appears to function fine. dealer said that seatbelts currently not functioning!!!?? vehicle has less than 50k miles on it. please refer to attached letter. removed names from the letter.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 nissan xterra. after making a left turn at approximately 10 mph, another vehicle crashed into the passenger side of the contact's vehicle. the contact's vehicle flipped and the front driver side seat belt unfastened without warning. the air bags did not deploy. the contact sustained injuries that did not require medical attention. a police report was filed. the vehicle was towed to a body shop where it was not diagnosed nor repaired. the manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. the vin was not included in nhtsa campaign number: 08v690000 (air bags). the failure mileage was approximately 190,000.
I bought a 2006 xterra, when i was strapping a child seat in the back i noticed that the center rear shoulder harness buckle and the left rear passenger seat belt buckle cross over one another when properly buckled. i called nissan usa and they seemed to have no concerns about this defect. i have looked at other 2006 xterra's and they all seem to be manufactured the same way. this could ultimately cause an injury. at this time no one to my knowledge has been injured by this defect in manufacturing. *nm