Investigation Opened into Nissan Airbags - Different Ones, This Time

In  further news about older Nissan vehicles getting the stink eye from regulators, the NHTSA is investigating over 74,000 decade-old Rogue Select crossovers for unexpected airbag deployment.

Unlike last week’s report about Takata dashboard airbags, it is the sudden firing of side curtain airbags which is causing consternation. Allegedly, there have been reports indicating inadvertent activation of the bags after a door is shut or slammed. Must have been one heckuva an argument for a passenger to slam the door hard enough to set the airbag off. 

It goes without saying that such an event could cause injury to car occupants or result in the obvious loss of air bag protection. There doesn’t seem to be an official recall of the things yet, with several outlets like Automotive News and Reuters describing the campaign as a probe into the issue.

This news is separate from the article from just the other day in which Nissan told owners of several models, some of which dated all the way back to 2002, they should immediately stop driving the vehicles if they remained equipped with recalled and unrepaired Takata airbags. Over 84,000 rigs were part of the announcement. 

Alert readers will remember the Rogue Select as a two-year offering from Nissan, sold alongside a then-newly redesigned model just like General Motors did with numerous models and Stellantis has been doing with the Ram 1500 and Ram 1500 Classic for years. The model year of 2015 say just a single trim, designed to appeal to “price-sensitive” buyers, though the 2.5L four-banger making 170 horsepower could have been lashed to either front- or all-wheel drive.

When new, it stickered for around 20 grand, nearly fifteen percent less than the starting price of a snazzy redesigned Rogue at the time.

[Image: Nissan]

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