Nissan’s Second Sentra Recall in a Week Targets a Driveshaft That Can Slip Out

Nissan is having a rough stretch with the Sentra, and this is the latest chapter. The automaker is recalling 946 examples of the 2025 model, reported to NHTSA under campaign number 26V410, over a left-side driveshaft that may not have been fully seated at the factory.

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When the driveshaft isn’t properly seated, it can leak transmission fluid, cause a sudden loss of drive power while the car is moving, and let the vehicle roll after it’s been shifted into park. Any one of those is dangerous on its own.

What Happened

Nissan traced the defect to a production tooling error at a supplier’s plant in Mexico, where a bearing dimension came out oversized and kept the shaft from seating correctly. The affected cars were built across a narrow three-day window, September 11 to 13, 2025, at the Aguascalientes II plant. Nissan says it has logged 13 warranty claims, three technical reports, and two customer complaints tied to the issue, first spotted when a driver got a reduced-power warning from the CVT. This lands just days after a separate Sentra safety campaign, part of why the compact sedan keeps turning up in recall headlines, and Nissan is also recalling a much smaller batch of Rogue transaxle assemblies in a parallel action.

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Affected Vehicles

• 2025 Nissan Sentra — 946 units, built September 11–13, 2025
• (Separately: 42 Rogue transaxle assemblies, 2022–2026, under a different action)

What Nissan Is Doing

Dealers will inspect the front left driveshaft. If it isn’t fully seated, they’ll replace both the driveshaft and the entire CVT assembly at no charge, a labor-heavy job that can take up to 10.5 hours. Owner notification letters are scheduled to be mailed by August 5, 2026.

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What Owners Should Do

Owners of a 2025 Sentra should check their VIN against NHTSA campaign 26V410 or contact a Nissan dealer. Because the affected build window is so narrow, most Sentras are unaffected, but the severity of the failure makes it worth a two-minute VIN lookup for any 2025 owner.

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