2010 Nissan Armada
This year drew an ordinary 48 complaints for a Nissan Armada — the model's median is 19. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.3% of them mention struck, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 48 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- struck — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (31.3×).
- opening — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (31.3×).
- unlock — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (31.3×). Owners wrote it as: unlock, liftgate actuator, actuator locks, locks unlock.
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 35 MPH, THE CONTACT STRUCK A POTHOLE AND THE FRONT AND REAR OVERHEAD CONSOLES ALL FELL DOWN AT ONCE. THE CONTACT PULLED THE VEHICLE OVER AND ATTEMPTED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE, BUT WAS [VIN]. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO GWATNEY BUICK GMC (5700 L…
WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED THE VEHICLE WAS ON AND THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTED OUT OF GEAR INDEPENDENTLY. THE VEHICLE THEN CRASHED INTO ANOTHER PARKED VEHICLE WHILE THE GEAR SHIFT LEVER WAS STUCK IN THE PARK POSITION. WHEN THE PASSENGER EXIT THE FRONT PASSENGER'…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V371000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10E019000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 10V072000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V208000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 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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