2004 NISSAN ARMADA — Complaint #662195
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:BRAKE FLUID LOW WARNING: LAMP filed March 18, 2008
NHTSA complaint #662195 (ODI reference 10221627) concerns a 2004 NISSAN ARMADA and was filed on March 18, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 17, 2008. The vehicle had 23,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:brake fluid low warning: lamp, 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:brake fluid low warning: lamp 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
THIS A COMPLAINT REGARDING MY 2004 NISSAN PATHFINDER ARMADA SE WHICH CURRENTLY HAS 23K MILES. IT STARTED ON 9/7/05, WHILE DRIVING OVER THE SPEEDS OF 55 MPH, WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES THEY LOCK UP & DON'T WORK. THE WARNING LIGHT FOR THE BRAKES CAME ON THE DASH. I TOOK THE CAR TO DEALER & THEY STATED THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE ROTORS WERE OUT OF ROUND. THEY REPLACED THE FRONT ROTORS & PADS, THEY ALSO TURNED THE REAR ROTORS & REPLACED THE REAR PADS. THIS WAS ON 9/7/05. ON 4/21/07 WHILE DRIVING ON A MAJOR HIGHWAY, I ATTEMPTED TO APPLY MY BRAKES & THE BRAKES DID NOT WORK & THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT STOP. THE BRAKE WARNING LIGHT CAME ON THE DASH & ON THE SAME DAY, WE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER & THEY RAN A DIAGNOSTIC CHECK ON THE VEHICLE & THEY FOUND THAT ONE OF THE CODES HAD AN ERROR. THE DEALER REPROGRAMMED THE COMPUTER SYSTEM TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM. ON 3/17/08, I WAS DRIVING & I ATTEMPTED TO APPLY MY BRAKES, WHEN THE BRAKES FAILED, THE EMERGENCY BRAKES DID NOT WORK & THE WARNING LI
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 662195 |
| ODI Number | 10221627 |
| Date Filed | March 18, 2008 |
| Failure Date | March 17, 2008 |
| VIN | 5N1AA08A64N |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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