Recall Register

Nissan 280Z: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Nissan 280Z, model years 1975 to 1983. NHTSA has 6 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 9 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19753
  2. 19761
  3. 19772
  4. 19782
  5. 19792
  6. 19801
  7. 19811
  8. 19821
  9. 19831
Nissan 280Z: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1983 Nissan 280Z NHTSA page11150%183,519
1982 Nissan 280Z NHTSA page12300%183,519
1981 Nissan 280Z NHTSA page12300%183,519
1980 Nissan 280Z NHTSA page11150%183,519
1979 Nissan 280Z200%479,229
1978 Nissan 280Z200%296,099
1977 Nissan 280Z200%296,099
1976 Nissan 280Z NHTSA page100%295,710
1975 Nissan 280Z300%327,714

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

7 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Nissan 280Z: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel System, Gasoline428.63
Seat Belts285.72
Vehicle Speed Control142.91
Structure142.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Nissan 280Z, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Nissan 280Z, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Nissan: all 46 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Nissan 280Z: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/nissan/280z/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Nissan 280Z model years have the most recall campaigns?
1975 with 3, 1979 with 2, 1978 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Nissan 280Z model year has the most complaints?
The 1981 model year, with 2 of the 6 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Nissan 280Z name?
Fuel System, Gasoline: 3 component mentions. Seat Belts: 2 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Nissan 280Z?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.