2009 Nissan Armada problems
Owners have filed 39 complaints with NHTSA about the 2009 Nissan Armada. Body & structure is the most reported problem area, at 26% of complaints. Next are engine (10%) and suspension (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 39 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Body & structure 26% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 9 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 30 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 90,000 miles 27 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 | 5 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 1 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 1 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 3 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 9 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 4 |
What the data shows
Of the 27 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 90,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 9 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 30 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 99% 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 2009 ranks 13th most-complained-about out of 15 model years of the Nissan Armada with enough data (21 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 3 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.
I was driving to work on the morning of 11/17/2020, when I hit a deer with a front of my SUV. The front end of my SUV was severely damaged which caused the airbag to deploy, when the airbag deployed I thought it may have burnt me instead it was emblem retaining ring from the inside of the steering wheel that holds the plastic advertisement / emblem of the vehicle come out and cut / impaled me across the neck. Which LED me to going to the er in the back of an ambulance.
Leaving work, I tried to start my car and it tried to turn over but stopped. The dash lights went dim and the needle indicators quivered and the car quit trying to start. I cleaned the battery terminals and the car cranked continuously but wouldnt turn over. After getting it towed to a mechanic whose computer couldnt communicate with the vehicle computer, then a toyota dealership (no nissan dealer in my town) who had the same problem, my coworker brought me a copy of a recall by nissan for his 2006 pathfinder for…
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 nissan armada. The contact stated that after entering the vehicle the interior roof panel was discovered hanging from the roof of the vehicle. The contact indicated that while driving the panel had to be held to avoid it from falling down onto the driver. In a separate incident, while driving approximately 5 MPH the interior roof panel detached from the roof and fell inside the vehicle making contact with a passenger seated in the second row middle seat.