Recall issued for Pathfinder, other Nissan SUVs

January 7, 7:34 PMNY Autos ExaminerNick Yost

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The National Highway Transportation Safety (NHTSA) announced late Monday that Nissan is recalling 242,700 Pathfinder, Xterra and Frontier vehicles covering 2005-2009 models to replace potentially faulty sensors that could result in non-deployment of driver and front-passenger airbags.

Nissan said the recall involves vehicles originally sold in or currently registered in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.

The recall notice explained “In those areas of the country which use heavy concentrations of road salt in the winter, a mixture of snow/water and salt can enter into the front crash zone sensor (CZS) housing. If this occurs, the CZS may internally rust, resulting in a signal interruption . . .”

Nissan has not yet provided an owner-notification schedule. Vehicle owners in other states will extended warranties for the sensors to 10 years and send them a sticker to place in their warranty booklets.

Customers may contact Nissan at 1-800-647-7261. Customers may also contact the NHTSA safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 or go to HTTP://WWW.SAFERCAR.GOV.