2011 Nissan Armada
This year drew an ordinary 40 complaints for a Nissan Armada — the model's median is 19. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.5% of them mention water, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 40 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 14.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- water — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (37.5×).
- heat — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the model's other years (9.7×).
- child — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (6.7×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING AT 45-50 MILES PER HOUR, SKID AND BRAKE LIGHTS CAME ON. IMMEDIATLY ALL TIRES LOOKED AND THE VEHICLE SKID OF THE ROAD. I WAS UNABLE TO BRAKE OR STOP THE VEHICLE, IT SLID AND OVER TURNED UNTIL IT CAME TO A STOP ON IT'S OWN. BEFORE THIS MY HEAT(A/C…
THE FRONT ONLY DRIVER SIDE HEATING AND COOLING DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY. THE PASSENGER SIDE AND BACK HEATING AND COOLING OPERATES AS EXPECTED. EXAMPLE: AT 90 ON HIGH HEAT, ALL AREAS OF THE VEHICLE WILL BE HOT EXCEPT THE DRIVER SIDE DASHBOARD AND FLOORBOARD AIR V…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V067000 AIR BAGS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Armada was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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