2012 Nissan LEAF — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 71 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Brakes22 (31.0%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2013–2023.
• Electrical system14 (19.7%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2013–2016.
• Air bags (restraint system)11 (15.5%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 2013–2017.
• Speed control & accelerator4 (5.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2018–2023.
• Seat belts3 (4.2%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2013–2026.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)3 (4.2%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2018–2022.

Other / uncategorized: 2 classifications (2.8%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (2,184 records, model years 2011–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, brakes and fuel system.
• Manufacturer communications (1,712 records, model years 2011–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and driver-assistance systems.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 42reports included a mileage
• 21,725average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2011 229 records for 2011 229
2. 2012 189 records for 2012 189
3. 2013 237 records for 2013 237
4. 2014 167 records for 2014 167
5. 2015 233 records for 2015 233
6. 2016 145 records for 2016 145
7. 2017 99 records for 2017 99
8. 2018 198 records for 2018 198
9. 2019 381 records for 2019 381
10. 2020 268 records for 2020 268
11. 2021 146 records for 2021 146
12. 2022 179 records for 2022 179
13. 2023 81 records for 2023 81
14. 2024 26 records for 2024 26
15. 2025 16 records for 2025 16
16. 2026 12 records for 2026 12

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 6mention a crash
• 6mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 129
• Investigations NHTSA 3
• Owner complaints NHTSA 57

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• B00A0 in 5 records
• P0456 in 3 records
• P0442 in 2 records
• P0455 in 2 records
• P0605 in 2 records

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.