2021 Nissan Sentra ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE
Owner-reported problems and safety issues filed with NHTSA. Review common failures, severity levels, and complaint trends over time.
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Automatic emergency brake engaged while driving when there was not a car directly in front of me. There were no obstructions on the road and cars in the lanes next to me were not merging into my lane.
While driving, car brakes by itself. There were no cars in front or behind. Red light flash on dashboard and then snatched brakes by itself. Another time, someone came close behind me and my car stopped by itself again nearly causing the driver to run into the back of me. Sensor light come on. Doesn't recognize my key. It's been reset but same problem.
I was traveling at about 40mph when my vehicle, with no traffic in sight, had the automatic emergency brake go off and reduced my speed to 32mph. My safety concern is what if this happens on the freeway or even while raining. if there was a car behind me what if it caused them to get road rage. ***dashcam video available***
Car emergency stops with no reason. Dangerous. Will cause accident. Needs recalled.
10/5/21-FIRST NOTICED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHILE BACKING UP VEH. WARNING SIGNAL GOING OFF SHOWING DRIVER SIDE REAR NOTHING BEHIND ME AT THE TIME ALL CLEAR FIGURED IT WAS JUST ? I REVERSED ANYWAY AND TOOK OFF TO STORE WHILE ON MY WAY HOME AROUND 2:30ISH WHILE DRIVING ABOUT 30-40MPH VEHICLE SUDDENLY ACTIVATED THE AUTOMATICE EMERGENCY BRAKING SYSTEM RED LIGHTS ON DASH INDICATING IT WAS ACTIVATED AT THE TIME THERE WAS NO VEHICLE IN FRONT OF ME! I WAS APPROACHING A RAILROAD CROSSING AT THE TIME I HAD MY SON IN THE FRONT SEAT AFTER A FEW SECONDS THE VEHICLE RELEASED THE BRAKES AND I PROCEEDED HOME OF COURSE I WAS SHAKEN UP AND HAD QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON? TOOK TO DEALER 2 DAYS LATER DEALER KEPT THERE FOR OVER 5 HOURS AND DURING VEH. UPDATES VIA TEXT FROM DEALER WAS TOLD THEY WERE GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH NISSAN CORP. VIA EMAIL ON TRYING TO RECEIVE ASSISTANCE AS TO HOW TO GO ABOUT REPAIRING THE ISSUE, WAS ALSO TOLD TO PICK UP VEH. DRIVE FOR A WEEK AND RETURN TO CHECK IF OTHER CODES WERE NOTED? SO THEY ADMIT THERE WERE CODES INDICATING THERE WAS A PROBLEM. NOT A WEEK YET TO RETURN TO DEALER UNTIL NEXT WEEK HOWEVER I DRIVE OVER 50MILES A DAY COMMUTE TO WORK AND I AM VERY SCARED THESE DAYS TO DRIVE I ALSO HAVE CLIENTS I MUST TRANSPORT IN MY PERSONAL VEH. FOR WORK PURPOSES WHAT IF SOMEONE GETS HURT? ITS SO STRESSFUL. IM WORRIED!ANY SUGGESTIONS? ALSO, ON NHTSA WEBSITE I FOUND BY VIN NUMBER THE VEH. MADE 2ND,4TH AND 6TH IN ORDER AFTER MINE WHICH IS 0 THIS IS SUSPICIOUS AND TROUBLING.
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The 2021 Nissan Sentra has 5 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE complaints on file. Review the timeline above for detailed owner experiences.