2008 Nissan Armada problems
Owners have filed 209 complaints with NHTSA about the 2008 Nissan Armada. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 33% of complaints. Next are body & structure (19%) and electrical system (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 209 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 33% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 0 and 2
- Injuries and deaths
- 8 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 85,000 miles 168 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 | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 15 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 20 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 37 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 28 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 26 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 11 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 6 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 6 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 7 |
| 200k+ miles | 5 |
What the data shows
Of the 168 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 85,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 92,000 miles (64 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 2 complaints mention a fire; 8 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 84% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2008 ranks 5th most-complained-about out of 15 model years of the Nissan Armada with enough data (96 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 6 safety recall campaigns.
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.
My 2008 nissan armada 's interior roof console fell on top of my children and their friend's head without warning. This posed an immediate safety hazard for my children as well as me. After picking up my daughter and her friend from practice, the interior roof console completely fell on top of them. We were all so scared. When I heard the loud noise, I looked in the rear view mirror and wasn't sure what happened. At first I thought we somehow were hit but I quickly realized that it was the console that fell.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 nissan armada. The contact stated that the lift-gate struts failed and caused the lift-gate to strike the contact abruptly on the head, causing injury. The dealer replaced the lift gate but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure, but denied any assistance with repairs to the vehicle. The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was 18,000 and the current mileage was 25,800.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 nissan armada. The contact stated that while driving 35 MPH, the console in the ceiling of the vehicle became detached, striking the contact in the cranium. The vehicle was taken to a dealer for diagnosis and was informed that the console would have to be re-attached but no cause for the failure was determined. One week later, the rear ceiling console became detached. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 47,500 and the current mileage was 52,000.
The brake failure occured while driving on a city street at 35MPH, it acted like the ABS system failed. This happened on a saturday. I called the nissan dealer we purchased it from the following monday to get an appointment to have it checked out. The dealer got me in the next day and the tech said the brake master cylinder and sensor was defective and it needed to be replaced. The service manager for the dealer said the part was $700.00 and labor was $400.00-500.00 but it would only be 80 percent fixed.
Within the last two months the ABS light will appear on the dash accompanied by a loud vibration and a loss of braking power. I had the brakes replaced and that did not fix the problem. This is dangerous and could lead to a loss of braking ability on corners and at highway speeds leading to a crash. Also within the past few months the fuel guage has started to show more fuel in the tank than what is actually in the tank.