Nissan Leaf: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 20 recall campaigns for the Nissan Leaf, model years 2010 to 2026. NHTSA has 260 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 15 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Nissan Leaf | 2 | 0 | 0% | 3,839 |
| 2023 Nissan Leaf | 3 | 0 | 0% | 131,649 |
| 2022 Nissan Leaf | 4 | 0 | 0% | 207,882 |
| 2021 Nissan Leaf | 4 | 0 | 0% | 207,882 |
| 2020 Nissan Leaf | 6 | 0 | 0% | 220,816 |
| 2019 Nissan Leaf | 5 | 1 | 6% | 1,443,339 |
| 2018 Nissan Leaf | 4 | 6 | 35% | 1,417,635 |
| 2017 Nissan Leaf | 2 | 4 | 23% | 124,381 |
| 2016 Nissan Leaf | 4 | 13 | 75% | 3,425,683 |
| 2015 Nissan Leaf | 4 | 48 | 277% | 3,468,187 |
| 2014 Nissan Leaf | 6 | 21 | 121% | 4,428,257 |
| 2013 Nissan Leaf | 5 | 60 | 346% | 4,509,888 |
| 2012 Nissan Leaf | 0 | 39 | 225% | |
| 2011 Nissan Leaf | 0 | 67 | 387% | |
| 2010 Nissan Leaf NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 6% |
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
344 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes | 319.8 | 110 |
| Electrical System | 162.8 | 56 |
| Air Bags | 127.9 | 44 |
| Unknown or Other | 64 | 22 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 49.4 | 17 |
| Visibility/Wiper | 29.1 | 10 |
| Electronic Stability Control (ESC) | 26.2 | 9 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 23.3 | 8 |
| Structure | 20.3 | 7 |
| Engine | 20.3 | 7 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Altima54 campaigns
- Maxima27 campaigns
- Pathfinder49 campaigns
- Murano26 campaigns
- Sentra55 campaigns
- Xterra21 campaigns
- Frontier39 campaigns
- Titan34 campaigns
- Versa26 campaigns
- Rogue44 campaigns
- Quest24 campaigns
- Armada19 campaigns
- 350Z3 campaigns
- D217 campaigns
- 370Z2 campaigns
- Juke7 campaigns
- 300ZX4 campaigns
- 240SX2 campaigns
- Cube4 campaigns
- Stanza4 campaigns
- 200SX4 campaigns
- Versa Note8 campaigns
- Altima Hybrid1 campaign
- Crew1 campaign
- Titan XD5 campaigns
- Redundant NV2005 campaigns
- NV8 campaigns
- Pulsar3 campaigns
- Van6 campaigns
- Pathfinder Hybrid3 campaigns
- Kicks10 campaigns
- 7203 campaigns
- 280Z4 campaigns
- NV200 Taxi4 campaigns
- 5107 campaigns
- Rogue Sport2 campaigns
- 8102 campaigns
- Murano Hybrid3 campaigns
- Redundant Rogue5 campaigns
- 240Z2 campaigns
- Z2 campaigns
- 3102 campaigns
- Ariya3 campaigns
- Redundant Rogue Sport2 campaigns
- SRL3112 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Nissan Leaf: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/nissan/leaf/. 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 Leaf model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2020 with 6, 2014 with 6, 2019 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Nissan Leaf model year has the most complaints?
- The 2011 model year, with 67 of the 260 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Nissan Leaf name?
- Service Brakes: 319.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 162.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 127.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Nissan Leaf?
- 5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.