2004 NISSAN ARMADA — Complaint #476597
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC filed May 24, 2004
NHTSA complaint #476597 (ODI reference 10073040) concerns a 2004 NISSAN ARMADA and was filed on May 24, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 13, 2004. The vehicle had 826 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:disc, 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: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. 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 service brakes, air:disc 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 2004 NISSAN ARMADA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WE BOUGHT A BRAND NEW 2004 NISSAN ARMADA FROM BROWN&BROWN NISSAN IN TEMPE ARIZONA ON MAY 12, 2004. THE CAR HAS PROBLEM WITH ALIGNMENT AND BRAKES. THE STEERING ALWAYS LEAN TO THE RIGHT EVEN RUN ON THE FLOATED ROAD, THE WHOLE CAR SHAKEN WHEN RUNNING ON THE ROUGH ROAD AND BREAKING, WINDOW MAKING NOISE WHEN CAR SHAKEN. WE BROUGHT THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER AND NOTIFY THEM ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAD EXPERIENCED ON MAY 13, 2004. THE SERVICE TECH TOLD US IT IS NORMAL NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE AND SAID THAT NISSAN MADE ALL VEHICLES LIKE THAT. WE DON'T THINK THIS IS RIGHT BECAUSE ALL VEHICLES HAVE TO RUN STRAIGHT NOT LEANING TO NEITHER RIGHT OR LEFT SIDE OF THE FLOATED ROAD AND SHOULD MOVING SMOOTHLY NOT SHAKING WHEN RUN ON THE ROUGH ROAD. THIS IS CONCERNED ME ABOUT MY FAMILY SAFETY. BROWN&BROWN NISSAN SALE MANAGERS WANTED US TO BRING THE CAR TO SERVICE TO GET FIX. SINCE THEIR SERVICE TECH SAID THE PROBLEMS ARE NORMAL AND NOTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE WHEN THOSE SYMPTOMS ABOVE OC
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 476597 |
| ODI Number | 10073040 |
| Date Filed | May 24, 2004 |
| Failure Date | May 13, 2004 |
| VIN | 5N1AA08A84N |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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