Nissan Has Recalled More Than 1.2 Million Cars In Japan

After it was found that unqualified factory staff had been carrying out final vehicle inspections for around three years, and still were two weeks later, Nissan has recalled cars and even shut down its six domestic market factories

Matt Kimberley

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

Nissan Has Recalled More Than 1.2 Million Cars In Japan

Surely it’s not another Japanese not-doing-things-properly scandal? Actually, yes. Yes it is. After the Kobe Steel debacle we brought to you just days ago, Nissan, whose cars might already be affected by that, has recalled every single car it sold in Japan over the last three years and suspended production at six domestic factories.

Stop to consider the scale of that and you might go slightly giddy. The original recall was announced at the start of this month, but we missed it. It was triggered when the company found out that cars were somehow being signed off by unqualified factory staff.

Now, two weeks later, Nissan has discovered that the tea lady and work experience lad were still making final vehicle checks. We joke, but it’s a serious issue and has added around 34,000 cars to the incredible 1.2 million already recalled.

In all likelihood there’ll be nothing wrong with them, but every car will undergo re-inspections to establish proper function of the steering, acceleration and braking. You can’t fault them for doing everything they can, though, and we at least applaud them for that.

It’s said to be an operation that will cost Nissan $222 million, not to mention financial losses associated with halting production for at least two weeks at its six plants that serve the Japanese market.

This is yet another blow for the Japanese automotive industry, which has lately been going through some pretty tough times of its own making. Mitsubishi owned up to falsifying emissions test results, and Kobe Steel’s deliberate mislabelling of metals could impact millions of cars globally. It’s stare at your shoes and look sorry time, guys.

Source: Reuters/Fortune

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If the car hasn’t been handed over to the customer yet, it’s by definition not a recall.

A “reliable” manufacturer recalling cars. Now I’ve seen everything.

I’ve seen the before, there is usually about one recall a year on my parents Toyota’s

Nissan isn’t terribly reliable. Generally it’s Lexus that is the most reliable, then Toyota, Honda (non-F1) and Subaru.

Imo, things like this (inc. Kobe Steel, dieselgate, etc) might hurt the company but are healthy for the industry and good for us, the customers.

Firstly, such events shake the big and often inefficient companies and make them rethink every single stage of their business and make it more efficient. Secondly, its a vicarious reinforcement for other companies too: I bet Toyota, VW and GM are now making sure this doesn’t happen to them too, potentially preventing future problems. Thirdly, we can see how companies react to such things: kudos to Nissan for re-checking every single car out there. Finally, a financial hit for a single big company like Nissan or VW might be good for competition, as smaller companies, such as Suzuki, are more able to keep up.

At least that’s how I like to think about it.

I’d like to believe they are now making cars without anything possibly problematic so it doesn’t happen to them, but I feel like the only thing they are going to do to make sure it doesn’t happen to them is just finding better ways to hide the problem, rather than solving it for good

Fck you Kobe and Fck you Mitsubishit.
Imo, scams to destroy the economy of your own frickin country and halt a blooming industry should be considered as an act of blasphemy… They should be sued and shut down… Especially Mitsubishit…

Shutting down an profitable company is definitely better for the economy😂
Although, if I was Japanese government, I’d shut down Mitsu too. Unless they revive the Evo and promise not to produce rubbish SUVs with sportscar names (e.g. Eclipse).