Consumer Complaint Detail

NISSAN / 200SX / 1996

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 006070636 Incident Date: Jul, 04 2006
Consumer's City: PALM BAY Consumer's State: FL
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Nissan North America, Inc.
Model Name: 200SX Model Year: 1996
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Visibility:windshield wiper/washer:linkages
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1N4AB42D0TC Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jul, 06 2006 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Aug, 14 2005
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 4 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: I own a 1996 nissan 200sx with . i purchased the car in late summer of 2005. on july 5 2006 my son was driving the car in a rain storm and the wipers stopped functioning. the next day he asked me to look at the car and i discovered the windshield wiper linkage had failed at the ball joint where the connecting rod from the motor joins the pivot rod for the wiper blades. i did a little research and discovered this problem was previously reported in nhtsa recall 98v093000. i contacted my local nissan dealer and i was told my vin had no outstanding recalls. i called nissan corp. and was told the same thing. however, nissan is going to pull the archives on my vehicle to see if it has been serviced for this recall. this process will take several days. even if this car was previously serviced for recall 98v093000, whatever fix was done obviously wasn't sufficient because the problem recurred. i consider this a serious problem because it could have caused a traffic accident. if my vin number turns out not to be part of the original recall group then i believe nissan should be required to expand the list of vehicles covered by this recall. *jb