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DETROIT (Reuters) — Nissan Motor Co. said today it is abandoning added than 14,000 amalgam Infiniti Q50 and Q70 affluence sedans globally due to accessible software and manual issues.

Nissan is abandoning 14,438 Q50 and Q70 amalgam sedans from archetypal year 2014 because the electric motor may stop active due to a communications absurdity amid the motor inverter and manual ascendancy module, according to the aggregation and abstracts acquaint online with the U.S. National Artery Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Of the afflicted vehicles, 7,539 were awash in Japan, 5,412 in United States and territories, and the blow in added markets, Nissan said.

The stall-like activity can activity back the electric motor stops alive and may access the accident of a crash, according to the NHTSA documents. The affair does not activity back the car is operating at artery speeds while the centralized agitation agent is in use, according to the NHTSA documents.

Nissan apparent the botheration afterwards a “field incident” in Japan in backward August, according to the NHTSA documents. It activate no incidents in the U.S. market, according to the NHTSA.

Nissan will reprogram the motor inverter software at no cost, according to the NHTSA. The anamnesis is accepted to activate in mid-November.

In a abstracted action, Nissan additionally is abandoning 1,641 Q50, Q70 and Q70L amalgam sedans from the aforementioned archetypal year because a baby cardinal accept automated manual housings that may accept cracks acquired during accomplishment by the supplier, according to the NHTSA.

The anamnesis affects 817 cars awash in the United States and its territories, 520 in Japan and the blow in added markets, Nissan said. 

Over time, a able could advance to a beyond fracture, bearing on-road bits and accretion the accident of a crash, according to the NHTSA. Nissan is not acquainted of any complaints, injuries or accidents accompanying to this issue.

A new manual accumulation will be installed if any cracks are activate by the dealers, according to the NHTSA. The anamnesis is accepted to activate in mid-November.

A Nissan agent said there may be overlap amid the two recalls.

The new Q50’s U.S. barrage was delayed a ages in the summer of 2013 for last-minute engineering changes. And aftermost week, glitches with the car’s infotainment arrangement were cited in Consumer Reports’ Annual Auto Reliability Survey. The problems helped account Infiniti’s all-embracing rank in the abstraction to collapse 14 spots to 20th out of 28 brands.