Side/window Air Bag problems of the 2007 Nissan Xterra

I have purchased a new 2007 Nissan Xterra s 4x4 SUV so that I can go off-roading for sports activities such as skiing (snow), hunting (mountains, dirt roads). However, I have went to test the 4 wheel drive system of my vehicle several times to ohv parks, and the last time I visited a park, I was driving through plain mud on a plain dirt ground and without any impact nor any bad driving the curtain airbags from both sides have deployed giving me a trauma for airbags. I have taken the car for repair to cerritos Nissan dealer, but they told me that it will not be covered under warranty because the car had a rock dent from previous off-roading which had nothing to do with the day of the airbag deployment. As for evidence, I have uploaded on youtube the video of my airbags deploying so that people can see that it deployed for no reason. It is brand new vehicle, with less than 7500 miles on it, the dealer will not respond, and so I had to talk with Nissan America corporate office in which they will make another analysis of this vehicle in which I do believe that it is a defect. For this repair, they will have to replace the entire roof ceiling in which I do not believe that it will be the same as before, and so I have requested them to get me a new vehicle because I lost confidence of my defective one. From now on, I will have the trauma of airbags deploying at any time, and I am doing this complaint because I do think that it is dangerous to let them have such system because I can imagine that because of these airbags, I could have gotten into a big accident, and wish that it is fixed for everyone for the safety of human kind!!! I have researched online, and I am not the only person with this same experience. . . There are few more out there with the same problem. . Read more...

There is significant variance in when the passenger side airbag disengagement light will come on when my wife is in the car. My wife is approximately 115 pounds and there is not any consistency as to when the airbag becomes turned off. For example I will be cruising at 60 miles per hour with her sitting perfectly centered on her seat. With these conditions constant the light will go on for a variable amount of time and then turn back off. The same results can be observed regardless of what speed we are going. For example, the same situation can be observed cruising at 30 mph. The dealership, service center and regional customer service center will not acknowledge that there is a problem. There reasoning is that this is the way safety feature is designed and the vehicle passes their diagnostic test. When I ask for the design parameters that cause the light to go on and off they do not give me a specific enough reason or parameters as to why the light goes on and off. This is an obvious design failure or safety defect, but no one at Nissan is is willing to take responsibility to help us. We are basically stuck with a very unsafe vehicle for anybody with a passenger between 100 to 130 pounds. This is a weight range where children and young adults are specifically at risk to this safety defect. I can understand how the airbags can be optimized to turn on and off based on various factors. But there is no consistency on what those thresholds are. We appreciate any help someone can provide in helping to get a recall for this very dangerous vehicle.