HIGH PRESSURE POWER STEERING HOSE FAILURE RUPTURE. *TR
2007
SEATS
DRIVER'S POWER SEAT SUDDENLY STARTED ROCKING FORWARD AND BACKWARD AS YOU WERE SLOWING OR ACCELERATING. POPPING AND SQUEAKING NOISES ACCOMPANIED THE ROCKING MOTION. AS THE SEAT WOULD ROCK YOU HAD TO ADJUST PRESSURE ON THE BRAKE PEDAL OR ACCELERATOR TO COMPENSATE FOR THE MOVEMENT OF THE SEAT. IT WAS UNNERVING TO OPERATE THE VEHICLE WITH THE SEAT MOVING. I HAD TO HOLD ONTO THE GRAB HANDLE OVER THE DRIVER'S DOOR TO HELP CONTROL THE MOVEMENT OF THE SEAT. IN DOING THIS I WAS UNABLE TO KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE STEERING WHEEL. IF I TRIED TO KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE STEERING WHEEL, WHEN THE SEAT WOULD MOVE I WOULD TEND TO JERK THE WHEEL FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS I TRIED TO STOP THE SEAT FROM MOVING. APPOINTMENT WAS MADE AT LOCAL NISSAN SERVICE DEPARTMENT. I LEARNED THAT NISSAN IS FAMILIAR WITH THIS SAFETY ISSUE AND HAVE ISSUED A TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN. PARTS WERE ORDERED AND SEAT WAS REPAIRED. I AM CONCERNED THAT IF NORMAL USE WILL CAUSE THE INFERIOR DESIGNED SEAT TO BREAK WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN A CRASH. IT APPEARS TSB IS FOR MODEL YEARS 2003 THRU 2007 . POSSIBLY THE SEAT DESIGN WAS IMPROVED FOR '08 AND LATER MODELS BUT NISSAN IS UNWILLING TO ISSUE A RECALL TO COVER THIS SAFETY ISSUE. *TR
