Brakes Failed problems of the 2016 Nissan Leaf

This has happened to me intermittently at first . . . Now permanently and cannot be diagnosed by Nissan. Ihad total brake failure while on the fwy at 60mph, the dash lights for all brake componenets came up with tire as well. . . Almost all warnings lit up and the brake pedal went to the floor and I had to press the brakes very hard and car would not stop but eventually did on side of road. Very bad loud grinding malfunctioning sound. When I was getting it towed I tried to turn on just to confirm still broken status, however car ran perfectly till the next incident with same diagnosis. Nissan 777 has given me 4 different diagnostic problems with estimates at $5,900 master cylander, $3,800 brake assemble and a verbal one saying it is the actuator. Their parts dept is incompetent as Nissan has been about this issue for 6 months now. This is by far a traffic safety issue and Nissan is failing to recognize the problems with this Nissan Leaf. Reddit has several people claiming same issue and Nissan is ignoring it.

During conditions of low 12v battery charge, the vehicle will occasionally start, go into a drive mode ("r" or "d") but the brakes will not operate. I stress that this only happens when the 12v battery has low charge, but not too low that the vehicle will refuse to start. I am not the only person to report this. . Read more...

Tl the contact owns a 2016 Nissan Leaf. While driving in reverse, the brakes failed to engage when the brake pedal was depressed. The vehicle was towed to premier Nissan of metairie (located at 6636 veterans memorial blvd, metairie, la 70003, (504) 455-5800) to be diagnosed, but a failure code could not be found. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and provided case number: 33554796. The approximate failure mileage was 14,000.

I had a brake failure at power on issue on my 2016 Nissan Leaf sl. Nothing on the dash alerted me. The brakes did work, but it seemed like no vacuum assist, so had to press really hard. Towed to a dealer. Replaced the 12v battery. Very scary, I rolled out into an intersection and luckily I was not in an accident or ran over a pedestrian.

On 6 occasions the brakes failed to work on first contact when attempting to come to a full stop at either a stop light or a stop sign on city streets. Releasing the brake pedal and reapplying the brakes finally brought the car to a stop. This happened to both my husband and myself and happened on both straight flat roads and downhill roads. This happened in both regenerative and non-regenerative braking but the worst failure happened in non-regenerative braking.