2018 Nissan Armada
Complaints about this year name start far more often than the model's other years — 34% of them, about 6× the usual rate of 5.6%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 73 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 15.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- start — 34.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (6.1×).
- switch — 30.1% of this year's complaints, against 10.2% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: switch, lamp, brake switch, consistently.
- lights — 24.7% of this year's complaints, against 8.5% across the model's other years (2.9×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- stranded — 16% of complaints, 41× usual
- having — 15% of complaints, 38× usual
- bci — 15% of complaints, 38× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING, THE BRAKES WILL ENGAGE INVOLUNTARY AND MOST THE LIGHTS ON THE DASHBOARD LIGHT UP. A MESSAGE BCI MALFUNCTION APPEARS. CAR CAN NOT ACCELERATE AT A SAFE SPEED UNTIL CAR IS PARKED AND RESTARTED. SOMETIMES IT WILL NOT START UP IMMEDIATELY, LEAVING TH…
YESTERDAY I WAS SITTING IN A DRIVETHRU AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE BCI WARNING LIGHT CAME ON THE DASH AND A COUPLE OF OTHER DASH LIGHTS. DROVE STRAIGHT HOME AND NOW THE VEHICLE WILL NOT START. I WILL HAVE TO GET A TOW TO THE NEAREST DEALER. GOOD THING I DROVE STRA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V654000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
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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