I'm driving less than 5 miles in the school parking lots and all suddenly my brakes make a loud noise and the brake lights turn on. I had to turn my car off and turn it back on. This is unsafe for my family while this incident happened, my daughters were in the car with me. I was afraid for the life of my daughters. This incidents regarding the brake happened to me more than 5 times already. Nissan should had this recall. I had my mechanic check it out, he gave me a code c1179 delta stroke sensor signal fault meaning the brake booster and ABS unit .
2005 Nissan Armada brakes complaints
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The first time the brake issue occurred was at the first start of the day. I turned on the vehicle began reversing out of my drive when I applied the brakes the warning light came on and a loud scraping sound came from the front end. I could also feel the grinding in the brake pedal. When the vehicle was turned off then restarted problem was gone. A few weeks later the incident happened again. This time it was the middle of the day and the car had already been driven before. Again when the brakes were applied a loud grinding noise was heard and vibrations in the brake pedal. Again turning the vehicle off then restarting got rid of the problem.
Nissan armada 2005, problemas con los frenos. Turn on light brake, vbc, slip, and not stop, make a noises.
I have a 2005 nissan armada. And I think that is a computer clinch in the brake system. I have had my brakes check at he dealership and they said there no problems but I have had incident where I have been driving and when I press on the brake it felt like it was just hitting medal. This has happened more than five time. And I have been fortunate enough not to be traveling in access speed. When this happen I have to turn the vehicle off and restart it and the problem is fix. I have told the dealer about it and they just do visual look without checking if there is a computer problem. Also my brother has a 2004 infinity and he has the same problem with his vehicle.
This is pertaining to a 2005 nissan armada that we purchased brand new. Soon after purchase, the brakes began chattering and we took it to dealer. They fixed the brakes based on recommended upgrade per nissan. A couple of month later, the car had a brake failure that was remedied by turning off engine and restarting. There were no problems since until two days ago when the brakes failed again. Nissan has been contacted and we are expecting a call back from a regional expert as to how to get brakes fixed. We received call from nissan dealer that said that they do not know about this problem with other nissan armada's and that we would have to pay to get it looked at. This car only has 13,500 miles on it. We are very concerned about the safety since this is a completely random brake failure occurrence and is remedied by restarting car and is difficult to duplicate. The symptoms include very loud sound in engine bay followed by brake pedal sinking to floor and no brakes activating.
Brake lock up while driving resulting in abrupt stop of vehicle.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. While driving 10 MPH and engaging the brake pedal, it failed to respond. Prior to the failure, he heard a grinding and knocking noise. He was forced to use the emergency brake to slow the vehicle down. He was able to safely drive onto the emergency lane and shut the engine off. Within a few minutes he turned the vehicle on and the brake system began functioning normally. The dealer was contacted and stated that there were no recalls. The failure has occurred twice. Nissan corporation gave him a claim number and advised him to have the vehicle diagnosed and repaired at his own expense. The vehicle has not been repaired. The contact is familiar with other related year, make and model vehicles with the identical failure. The failure and current mileage was 45860. Updated 2/26/10 *cn updated 05/11/10.
Vehicle: 2005 nissan armada failure: complete failure of the brake system incident: while driving lost complete brake system, leaving me with no ability to stop the vehicle. The problem resolved itself by restarting the vehicle. Resolution: I took the vehicle to the dealer and was told they could not repeat the issue and that they would "reflash" the ECM that "should" correct the problem. After researching this I found many other owner of 2004 - 2007 nissan armada and titan vehicle had the same problem. The problem is best described as an intermittent complete failure of the brake system that is resolved by restarting the vehicle. After many complaints to nissan and the dealer they decided to replace the power brake booster saying that any component failure that causes this must be contained in the brake booster. They also stated that they have replaced other customers brake boosters with the same problem. This is a major safety issue that nissan needs to make there customers aware of!!!!
I have a 2005 nissan armada. While driving the ABS and emergency brake light would start flashing. When I come to a stop the braking system starts to make a loud grinding noise like the ABS has kicked in and wont disengage. The only way to temporarily correct this is to shut the vehicle off and then restart the vehicle. This has been identified as a recall for nissan armadas 2004 and older.
Last week we vacationed in gatlinburg, tenn...at our family reunion in the mountain at a chalet .....I purchased my 2005 nissan armada and it had 50000 miles on it inapril. At 53000 I was descending the mountain and in my opinion not riding the brakes, although I delayed into shifting in to low. The grade on the descent was very steep and all I remember is the brake light and a loud noise coming from the front end of the vehicle and a gradual then dramatic decrease in my brakability. I was shaken and pulled over. In a couple of minutes I proceeded a little more and found the brake to almost disappear. I luckily found a driveway on an incline and pulled up and put it in park. I sat and wondered what to do because I was in such a dangerous mountain curve that was difficult to get help in. When I calmed down, I called my brothers to help me and let them know my location. When I saw a chance I put the vehicle in reverse and backed up, putting the armada in drive to reach a pull off point going uphill. I shut the nissan off and got out and waited. After a half an hour my brothers showed up and drove the vehicle without any problem. They told me I just rode my brakes and needed to let them cool off, but I thought they were right until I received this list of complaints and hear the same symptoms I experienced.....I will watch for this again and since we have a 6000 lbs family trailer we haven't use yet -I am eager to get the solution. Nissan needs to troubleshoot this problem and resolve the computer glitch before someone gets killed. I am a experienced school bus driver and an off road lover and I was able to handle the situation.......I would not like an inexperienced driver to have the same situation. I had no parts replaced because my family convinced me I was at fault and rode the brakes heating them up, and I just had new brakes before we left on vacation.
I have a 2005 nissan armada. I was driving and starting to brake when all of a sudden my brake light came on and a loud grinding noise was heard from the front of my armada. I almost lost braking capability. I applied the brakes again and the same thing happened with the loud noise and limited braking ability. I pulled over on the side of the road, turned the vehicle off and restarted the truck and the problem was gone for that moment. A few weeks later, it happened again, so I took it into the nissan dealer and they told me it was a code error and it had been reset (it was still under warranty then). Well, it has since happened about 10 more times. I had my husband take it to another nissan dealer and they told him it was the brake booster, and would cost approximately $900 to fix. We did not pay the money to have fixed. The last incident was this morning with my two small daughters in the truck with me. I was in 3 lanes of traffic and was starting to apply the brakes, when the brake light came on and the vdc light and two other panel lights. This morning, it was the worst it had been since it started. I normally have a little bit of brakes, but this morning when I tapped the brakes, it brought the vehicle to a complete sudden stop in 3 lanes of traffic, then, I let off the brake and tried to ease up and reapply the brakes and it brought it to a complete stop again. I turned the truck off and it cleared itself. I called my husband and told him. Once I got to work, I started to do some research and I find that I am not the only person experiencing this problem! I count myself lucky this morning that I was not rear ended because I had my two small daughters in my truck with me!!!! Nissan needs to do something about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a 2005 nissan armada, and when I drove the SUV and suddenly I heard the brake make a grinding loud noise and the brakes locked in. Then the brake light turns on and the master cylinder for the brake system just locked in. I was driving 15 miles in the parking lot. I then changed the brake fluid and master cylinder. The brakes still locked in.
2005 nissan armada , when I was driving the SUV and suddenly the brake lock in. The master cylinder for the brake system just locked in and the brake light is on. I replaced the brake fluid in the reservoir and it is still the same. I also replaced the master cylinder.
I have a 2005 nissan armada and the brakes have been giving me problems since I bought the SUV. Initially it was only warped rotors and excessive brake pad wear, but now the brakes have nearly failed on me three times. When I applied the brakes, it appears that the anti-lock brakes kick in, the brake pedal depresses further, and a loud groaning noise can be heard emanating from the brakes. This problem has occurred three times in the rain under very moderate braking condition (parking lot conditions) and when the parking brake has been used due to parking on a hill. When the event occurs the parking light , the slip, and vdc lights comes on.
We have a 2005 nissan armada (which was purchased new) it has had an issue where the "brake" light comes on and there is rapid pulsating/grinding noise from the brake system. During this event, the brake stopping distance is severely impacted and braking is dangerously inconsistent. We have brought vehicle into nissan dealer and been told because there "is no current stored code" they could not do anything for us and that we needed "to drive the vehicle in while this event occurred", so they could see what happened. There is no way it would be remotely safe to do so!!!! Nissan you are requesting a very unsafe procedure!!!!!! Each time this brake issue has happened (at least 6 with my wife and 1 with me), we were fortunate enough to pull the vehicle over and turn it off. In doing so it appears the vehicle "reset" and once turned back on the vehicle appeared to operate properly. Here are our occurrences: - once on/or around 9/2005- didn't think much at this point as we already had heard about issues with rotors and thought that was connected - 4/23/2007- went to dealer - 8/13/2008- called dealer told to drive it in while it was happening by dealer - right before 10/8/2008 on 10/8 we brought into dealer for this problem and a couple other issues - 5/14/2009 - 5/18/2009 - 5/26/2009 it happened to me with both of my grade school boys on vacation in rush hour traffic in northern california. The vehicle had a very clear issue and I had to make some tough traffic negotiations to get off of the freeway. Once off I turned off the vehicle and sat there for a short period of time. I turned it back on and luckily made it to my destination without further incident. I will be speaking with the nissan dealership again, to give them one last chance to try and fix this issue. They have done nothing as of yet and appear to lack any interest in fixing this problem. Take a look at any forums or car complaint web-sites there are numerous such complaints for same issue.
I was coming to a stop light and all of a sudden, the brake light indicator light on the dash came on, the vehicles brake system was acting erratic every time I pressed on the pedal. Seems like the ABS took over and assumed that the vehicle was loosing traction. The light stayed on and so was the problem with the brake system as I pressed the brake pedal. I pulled over to the curb and turned off the car, walked around assuming something was under the car and there was nothing. Started the car and the and the brake light on the dash went away and so did the problem. This has happened to me twice and is very unsafe when driving in traffic. There is a forum on nissanhelp where this issue has happened to many people and the problem is not resolved when the vehicle is taken to the dealership to get the problem fixed. Please help with this issue as it is unsafe to drive the vehicle because the light comes on unexpectedly and goes away when the vehicle is restarted and untraceable.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. The contact stated that the brake light constantly illuminates on the instrument panel and he heard a loud noise coming from the front end of the vehicle. The stopping distance has increased because brake pressure is lost. The failure was noticed while driving 40 MPH. He normally pulls over to the side of the road and turns off the vehicle to allow the ABS light to reset. The dealer stated that the vehicle needed brakes and the ABS was not at fault. The dealer did not replace the brakes or diagnose the failure. The failure mileage was 23,000 and current mileage was 35,000.
Brake light comes ABS fails and makes grinding noise. When I shut the car off it resets the computer light goes off then its back to normal.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. When the brake pedal was depressed, the contact heard a grinding noise followed by reduced braking ability. Also, while in traffic, the electrical parking brake spontaneously engaged itself and caused the vehicle to come to a complete halt. The dealer stated that she would have to pay $600 to repair the parking brake. Currently, the vehicle has not been repaired. The manufacturer did not assist. The failure mileage was 24,000 and current mileage was 41,000. Updated 05/13/09 *bf the consumer stated repairs have been made on the brake system 8 times. Updated 05/13/09.
Backing out of a driveway, I pushed on the brakes softly and it sounded like a deep, mechanical groan. I didn't really think anything of it until I reached my first stop. I applied pressure on the brake and the sound was there again. My children were in the vehicle and they kept asking what was wrong with the car. I decided it would be safer to take neighborhood side-streets. I proceeded very, very slowly because the breaks were unpredictable at that point. I was scared to apply all the pressure because I was afraid that if I pressed as I normally do , the brakes would just give out, so I pushed on the brake very lightly, which only made it worse because the softer I pressed the less it functioned, the pedal just kept going down- making that deep metal-grinding noise, it took a while for the breaks to actually kick it and stop the vehicle. I drove on egg-shells the rest of the way home, thank goodness there was not much traffic at the time, otherwise I would have been in serious trouble. I fear this happening in the freeway because that would be tragic- especially with children in the car.
Regarding 2005 nissan armada brake issue...I was driving reaching to the speed of 35mph and when I came to a stop at intersection I notice that my brake light was on. Applied the brakes and there was no brakes. You could hear noise coming from the front end like metal grinding. I pulled over the a parking lot and check under the hood to see if the brake fluid was low, but it was full. Drove the car the elk grove nissan and told them what had happened. In response, they told me that they can not find a problem and continue driving the car until the light comes back on and drive it directly to the dealership so they can pull the cold. I told them that they are crazy, because this is a safety issue and I can put my life in danger by driving the SUV there without proper brakes. They told me at the time, they can not help me until the light comes back on. I asked the dealership to see if there's a recall or bulletin out for this and they told me no. Further investigation needs to follow up on this because tons of people who owns this model could die from accidents due to the SUV having this problem. Also, proper protocol needs to be follow with the mfg and dealership regarding this issue. Please advise. This matter needs to be address to the dealership and fix the darn problem before many lives are lost due to this matter. They need to seek proper procedures before a big law suit is in place.
2005 nissan armada. My airbag sensor light has turned on and remained on for no apparent reason. The vehicle has not been in an accident and was recently serviced by the local nissan dealership about a week ago. Prior to the issue of the air bag light the braking system appears to be intermittent in stopping the SUV, which is also felt in the brake pedal while braking. I have addressed this to the dealership but they could not identify the cause. This all may or may not be related but this is very important to the safety of driving. To my knowledge similar problems are addressed in the 2007 and 2008 nissans vehicles but nothing yet for my 05 armada. How can you help? I would hate for these problems to be the cause of an accident one day. These complaints are very similar to others on your web site.
I have a 2005 nissan armada that is experiencing intermittent brake light/brake failure. The symptoms happen after initially turning on the vehicle and driving for about 200 yards. When the brakes are applied, the brake light will come on simultaneously with front brake noise. The brake pedal will be very "mushy", but the vehicle will stop. After stopping and turning the vehicle off, the error resets. This problem has happened at least five times in the last two months. I've taken the vehicle to the dealer and they claim there isn't any error code stored so they can't diagnose the problem to fix it. I searched the internet to see if this was a known problem and have found many other incidents, including this website to report this safety concern.
I was driving my 2005 nissan armada se when coming up to a stop light and had to apply my brakes to stop and they failed. The brake pedal shuddered and could hear a metal squeal coming from the front brakes. Scared me to death. Had my infant son with me and was really shaken that I almost hit another car in front of me. Since I wasn't in a area to where I could pull over right away, I began to pull away from the stop light very slowly. When no cars were around and I felt it safe to apply my brakes again, the same thing happened! The brake light on the instrument panel came on and I felt a grinding noise, and shudder feeling when apply pressure on the brake pedal. I finally pulled the vehicle over right away and called for a tow truck to tow to dealer. Explained to dealer what had happened and they told me they had heard about this type of problem before and that nissan had released a service bulletin about it. My service advisor told me that it was a vdc (vehicle dynamic control) module failure. He went on to say that sometimes you can turn off the vehicle and turn back on and it will reset itself. Very scary!!! I purchased an extended warranty when I purchased my armada and the dealer told me that this was not covered and it would cost me $115 to fix. I think nissan would be well advised to issue a recall about this situation. I would hate to be going down the highway at 75 MPH and have to apply my brakes suddenly and have them not work properly or scary yet someone gets killed.
While backing out of a parking space and applying brakes, the brakes suddenly began to grind and shutter very loudly and wouldn't function properly - it was as if they were locked up. The brake light came on and I was only able to come to a stop by down shifting and applying the emergency brake at the same time. All the while it was grinding terribly. I had trouble with the brakes when we first purchased the car - but this is the first time since 2005. I proceeded very slowly to my local repair shop (RPM automotive) where they did a computer check on the braking system. They had seen this same problem on several armadas already this year. The referred me to the dealership since they did not have the "code" number needed to correct the problem. My car is currently at the dealership service department. I think if I had been on the highway that I would have had an accident. The dealership feels that this is no big deal and the brakes will be fine once they fix the computer. I am very frightened about driving it again.
2005 nissan armada le, 56k miles multiple electrical issues resulting in loss of critical functions: braking system, air bags, electrical power all while the vehicle is being driven. Have taken to dealership 8 times for repairs related to electrical problems. Most recently, loss of brakes occurred while traveling on a major road @ 50 MPH; lost brake function when approached stop light. This has happened multiple times, I have reported it to the dealer 4 times. Each time the code is "cleared" but nothing is done. This time they are replacing the ABS booster, but from reading posts of other owners, the problem recurs. Dealer refuses to report problem to nissan.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. Whenever the brake pedal was depressed, the front end of the vehicle began to shake. The contact examined the vehicle and noticed that the rotors had grooves imprinted on them from the brake pads. The vehicle has been diagnosed by the dealer several times, but the failure still persists. The current mileage was 12,575 and failure mileage was 2,500. Updated 6/9/08 *cn the consumer stated the rotors and brakes continue to go bad. Updated 06/09/08
I rounded a corner at about 35 MPH (pulling a trailer) and my antilock brakes system went haywire. The brakes were pulsing madly, and the truck slowed slightly. I pushed on the brake pedal and nothing happened. I could not stop the truck!! Luckily, nobody was on the street and I was able to put it in neutral and turn the engine off while still moving about 25 MPH and restart the engine at which time the system reset itself. Upon going to the nissan dealer, I was informed that the vcd system (brake actuator) needed a software upgrade and that there was a service bulletin issued for this problem from nissan. I'm appalled that this dangerous problem where the driver cannot control the brakes or stop the vehicle is a known problem, yet there is no recall, or attempt to notify owners... Someone is going to get hurt as a result of this. Not to mention that nissan made me pay $170.00 to reprogram this faulty critical component... Owners need to be made aware of this problem. I called customer service and they didn't want to hear it.
Had a near miss vehicle accident due to the vdc (vehicle dynamic control) module/computer failure and caused brake system to malfunction and not stop car. While traveling 30 MPH +/- in a left turn lane and tried to stop at a red light. The brakes did not grab right, had a severe metal squeal. The brake pedal shuddered. The car went through the stop line into the intersection and oncoming traffic. The one car coming head on was able to stop. They made an emergency stop. Had to turn left into the parking lot and to a clear area in the lot to let vehicle slow on its own and finally stop. Vehicle brake lamp was lit on the instrument cluster. Put vehicle into park and light stayed lit. Put vehicle back in drive and tested brakes. They still would not brake correctly and had that loud noise with a shudder felt on the pedal. Called the dealer where car has been in for same complaint 2 times. They asked if I could drive it in, I said no and had to pay for a tow. When car was at dealer and restarted brake light was off and no problem with brakes. Dealer did a check of codes from onboard computer. Had a c-1179. I was told there was a known issue with this complaint and the vdc failure. There was a tsb for this condition, it had been out for more than a year. We have had the car in for a complaint of sudden brake pedal shudder and screech noise 2 times in the last year. Nissan dealer said it was a brake and rotor problem and had a tsb for the replacement. Dealer did tsb work for a brake judder 2 times. Told dealer this was the worst time this happened. That prior times the brake light was gone when we restarted the car and the brake problem was gone. Bought car pre-owned. Car showed a brake rotor tsb was done. Current dealer performed 2 more brake rotor tsb's. I question whether other complaints of a brake pedal shudder vs judder is not a mild form of the vdc failure? Thanks to the other driver on being alert and making this a near miss accident and not a full on collision.
Tl*the contact's mother owns a 2005 nissan armada. While driving above 40 MPH with the brake pedal slightly depressed, the brake icon illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle makes a hard stop and the failure occurred intermittently. The vehicle was taken to a dealer three times and they could not duplicate the failure. The current mileage was 36,000 and failure mileage was 25,000.
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