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Model years to avoid

Nissan Armada

What it says about you

Opinion

Vast, thirsty, and cheaper than the badge-equivalent from anyone else. You did that arithmetic deliberately.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 1,358 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (battery), 2018 (start), 2017 (start), 2008 (console), 2007 (brake light), 2006 (brake light), 2005 (brake light). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • brakes 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 peak 50.8% of that year's complaints
  • start 2017, 2018, 2019 peak 47.9% of that year's complaints
  • lights 2017, 2018 peak 24.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 2 recalls 7 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 19 complaints
  3. 2024 1 recall 4 complaints
  4. 2023 1 recall 5 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 8 complaints
  6. 2021 2 recalls 13 complaints
  7. 2020 2 recalls 10 complaints
  8. 2019 battery 73 complaints
  9. 2018 start 73 complaints
  10. 2017 start 81 complaints
  11. 2016 0 recalls 1 complaints
  12. 2015 3 recalls 21 complaints
  13. 2014 1 recall 12 complaints
  14. 2013 2 recalls 17 complaints
  15. 2012 1 recall 17 complaints
  16. 2011 1 recall 40 complaints
  17. 2010 5 recalls 48 complaints
  18. 2009 4 recalls 23 complaints
  19. 2008 console 161 complaints
  20. 2007 brake light 86 complaints
  21. 2006 brake light 266 complaints
  22. 2005 brake light 373 complaints

What does a Nissan Armada say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.