2004 NISSAN ARMADA — Complaint #635880
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC filed August 24, 2007
NHTSA complaint #635880 (ODI reference 10200709) concerns a 2004 NISSAN ARMADA and was filed on August 24, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 17, 2007. The vehicle had 58,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components: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, hydraulic:foundation components: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
2004 NISSAN ARMADA SE , NORMAL HIGHWAY DRIVING CONDITIONS , PARTIAL BRAKE FAILURE, FEELS LIKE BRAKES ARE APPLYING ABS ( LARGE PULSATIONS IN PEDDLE) BRAKES FEEL MAYBE HALF AS EFFECTIVE AT STOPPING THE VEHICLE AS OPPOSED TO WHEN THE BRAKES ARE WORKING PROPERLY. THIS FAILURE IS ACCOMPANIED BY A LOUD METAL ON METAL SOUND. BASED ON MY FINDINGS THIS APPEARS TO BE A SOFTWARE PROBLEM AND IS EASILY FIXED WITH A REFLASH OF THE VEHICLES COMPUTER. THIS PROBLEM COULD LEAD TO MANY ACCIDENTS AND WHEN A VEHICLE THIS BIG AND HEAVY CAN'T STOP THE ACCIDENT'S COULD LIKELY BE FATAL . I'M POSTING ON HERE IN THE HOPE THAT OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT YET HAD THIS PROBLEM CAN BE AT LEAST BE AWARE OF IT. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 635880 |
| ODI Number | 10200709 |
| Date Filed | August 24, 2007 |
| Failure Date | August 17, 2007 |
| VIN | 5N1AA08B54N |
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I PURCHASED MY NISSAN ARMADA IN DEC. 2003. ON 10/8/04, MY WIFE TOLD ME THE VDC OFF LIGHT, THE SLIP LIGHT AND THE BRAKE LIGHT WERE ILLUMINATED. I IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED THE DEALER AND HE HAD ME BRING
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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