Table 1 shows one common seat belt related problems of the 2013 Infiniti JX35.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Seat Belt problems |
The vehicle was being driven on the freeway. I was driving in the carpool lane with a passenger going around 75-80mph. The road was a smooth paved road, there wasn't anything on the road for my car to hit or run over. Then all of a sudden the driver-side airbag curtain deployed, and my seatbelt tightened and locked up in place. This frightened me and left me unable to drive correctly and endangered both my passenger's and my life. I had to immediately pull off to an exit and I concluded that the driver-side airbags deployed spontaneously and this put my life in danger and others driving on the freeway. So the driver-side side airbags malfunctioned and are available for inspection. The safety of others was put at risk by having the airbags deployed while driving on the freeway at a fairly high speed. The component has not been inspected or replaced by the manufacturer or any other entity. There was a passenger seatbelt warning light lit up prior to the incident, but it was for the passenger airbags and its meaning is that the passenger airbags would not deploy in the case of a vehicle accident/collision.
At very light stop such as red light or stop sign, my Jx35 has tightened the seat belts in the front so hard that it pulled me and my passenger back into our seats. When this happens, the brakes go very soft at or before the set belts tighten. The dealer could not find anything wrong, this has happened numerous times in the past 3 months.
When slowing to a stop on a city street downward incline the brakes will fade and the seat belt pretensioner will fire. Seems to be related to intelligent brake assist or abs system. I have read about others having the identical or similar problems on line but infinity acts like they never heard of the problem. We have taken the car to the dealership with no resolution of the issue. We get the run around from infinity consumer support.
While a normal sized person was in passenger seat, air bag light turned on, thus rendering air bag off and non operational if needed in a crash. Additionally, if a person was seated in the car passenger seat, got out of car, and then returned to seat, the air bag light would turn on and render the air bag non operational when a normal sized person was seated in the passenger seat. Car was returned to infinity dealer. They were able to duplicate these situations. They brought their engineer into evaluate car. He states the car air bag is functioning properly, when it is clearly not. We were told if a person leaves the vehicle as I described above. That we need to turn car off for air bag to work properly in that situation. It does not state this anywhere in the owner manual. They completely ignored that the passenger seat air bag turns off for no apparent reason when a normal sized person is seat in the seat despite me taking pictures of that scenario and showing them video evidence that it does such. I have returned the vehicle to the dealer 4 times. They have replaced the sensor recall (NHTSA campaign number: 13v069000) in the passenger seat 3 times without fixing the defect on my car. They are now telling me that the air bag is working properly, but it is clearly not. This is a serious safety issue that Nissan/infinity is ignoring. There are many documented case reports on internet of same situation.
The passenger air bag warning light illuminates (I. E. , the warning light indicates that the airbag is off) even though there is an adult passenger sitting in the front passenger seat and that adult passenger is properly seated and wearing a seat belt. . Read more...
My 8 year old son was seating in the back seat and had bent over to pick something up from the floor, while buckled with the seat belt. When he sat back up again, the seat belt was in lock-down mode and would not budge one way or another. The more he moved the tighter it got to the point where he could barely breath. Even though the car was parked and the engine turned off, the seat belt would not budge and the only way to get him out was to cut the seat belt. There was no other way to either release the buckle or the pressure from the seat belt.