2004 Nissan Armada problems
Owners have filed 638 complaints with NHTSA about the 2004 Nissan Armada. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 55% of complaints. Next are fuel system (6%) and engine (5%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 638 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 55% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 30 and 2
- Injuries and deaths
- 18 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 65,000 miles 504 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 155 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 38 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 43 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 69 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 62 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 35 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 33 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 18 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 21 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 16 |
| 200k+ miles | 14 |
What the data shows
Of the 504 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 65,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 58,000 miles (286 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 30 complaints mention a crash; 2 complaints mention a fire; 18 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2004 ranks 1st most-complained-about out of 15 model years of the Nissan Armada with enough data (311 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Was driving vehicle 35 MPH slowed down to go around sharp curve. When vehicle drove around curve there were vehicles in front of us that stopped suddenly. Applied brakes and pedal pulsed and required alot of effort to slow down. Was unable to slow vehicle down fast enough and rear ended vehicle in front of us. Caused a 3 car pileup. The 3 passengers in our 04 armada suffered whiplash, the driver sprained her wrist and was out of work for 3 days because of accident.
I was coming up on an intersection and the truck didn't stop, so I turn to the left and had a head on collision with another truck.
Wife was in our nissan 2004 armada and was completely stopped on flat ground, placed SUV in park. Got out of SUV placed both feet on the ground to stand up and then the SUV surged and jumped forward, while still in park. The vehicle crushed and pinned her between the door and the door jamb with a concrete metal pole on the outside of the door pinning my wife. The fire dept and ems had to extricate her by placing the SUV from park to drive move forward to release my wife.
2004 nissan armada se 4wd vehicle just stalls while driving no warning light so indication something is wrong with car, stall in a very busy intersection while driving , loss of steering brakes etc. Dash lights blink and light up. Car restarts if you crank it a few times , but this has happened on several more occasions , took to a dealership and no light indicators to diagnose the problem , this is very unsafe for my family and I to be in this armada.
While driving and reaching either a stop light or stop sign or coming to a stop when applying the brakes the pedal depresses to the floor and the brakes grind it will continue to do that until you turn the car off and turn it back on. It has occured since the purchase of the vehicle oct 2014.