2011 NISSAN ARMADA — Complaint #1174583
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER filed April 14, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1174583 (ODI reference 10705669) concerns a 2011 NISSAN ARMADA and was filed on April 14, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 3, 2015. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:seat heater/cooler, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: yes, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN ARMADA cohort independently describe similar seats:front assembly:seat heater/cooler failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2011 NISSAN ARMADA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 NISSAN ARMADA. WHILE DRIVING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BECAME HOT. UPON FURTHER INSPECTION, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THE MIDDLE OF THE SEAT MELTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 100,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1174583 |
| ODI Number | 10705669 |
| Date Filed | April 14, 2015 |
| Failure Date | April 3, 2015 |
| VIN | 5N1BA0ND4BN |
Similar SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER Complaints for 2011 NISSAN ARMADA
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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