Fuel gauge reads inaccurately, showing a fuel level even when empty. A recall was issued in 2010 for other 2005 armada models. A call to nissan (case#32522656) showed that over 340,000 vehicles were recalled by the federal safety agency (campaign #10v074000), but my VIN was excluded from this campaign. As noted in the other recall by the federal safety agency, this could result in unexpectedly running out of fuel, disabling the vehicle.
2005 Nissan Armada fuel system complaints
Page 2 of 4: complaints 11 to 40 of 77, newest first, as owners wrote them.
I was driving on the highway on my way to work when my car suddenly started to stall (in the middle of the highway). I ran out of gas with what my gage said was a little over a quarter of a tank left. There was no gas light on. Once someone was able to bring me gas, my car started back up. I looked up recalls on this model, and even though my VIN is "not effected", I believe it is part of this recall. (the federal safety agency campaign number 10v074000)
Takata recall brakes not working while driving and pulses and fuel gage not working while driving and parked.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. The contact stated that the fuel gauge did not work. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer to be diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 268,000. The VIN was not provided. *tt
Heating problem stopped working, replaced part and had to unplug a unneeded wire harness and relay in order to restore heat. Fuel gauge not working or reading properly. Still trying to find resolution. Front windows and locks stop working at any given time. Still trying to resolve. Check engine light, faulty exhaustsystem needs to replaced. Hard starting still trying to find resolution. Airbag light on was suggested seat belt buckle replacement
My gas gauge has been stuck on 1/4 of a tank since thursday I crunk up my car this morning,it was finei went back in my car was cut off so my neighbor went and got a gallon of gas poured it in my gas tank in my car crunk back up. Then I went and put $15 in my tank am I gas hand never movedso I checked online and I seen many things that was talking about recalls so I'll call the one 800 number and they told me that my car did not have a recall for the fuel sending unit and I know that's what's wrong with my car and I do not have the money to fix that nor do I have the money to get my car diagnosed at a nissan dealership what do I need to do because I know my VIN number should have been on the recall list and I refuse to pay for something that should be able to be fixed I see where a lot of people had this problem as well
In my 2005 nissan armada the fuel pump gauge does not notifiy you when the SUV is running out of fuel as well as the gas light it does not come on to let you know you are low on gas.
Fuel gauge on instrument panel never reads below a quarter of a tank. Has caused me to run out of gas on several occasions on highway and back roads
My armada ran out of gas after having picked up my daughter from school on a city street. I barely made it across the intersection and was able to coast to the side of the road with the steering wheel stiffening up. I've ran out of gas three times since then and each time the gas tank shows there is at least a quarter tank left. The dealer does not recognize this as an issue since my VIN is not one of "those" affected. What can I do? The first incident happened in february when the vehicle had less than 96000 miles on it.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. While driving 70 MPH, smoke appeared from the engine compartment and the vehicle stalled. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that a pipe burst. The pipe was replaced. Several days later, while driving approximately 20 MPH, the vehicle lost power and the service engine and other warning indicators illuminated. The contact stated that the fuel gauge displayed between 1/4 to empty. The vehicle restarted once the contact placed fuel in the tank. The contact also stated that the front passenger seat air bag warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired for the air bag warning indicator or the fuel gauge misreading. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The failure mileage was approximately 160,000.
Nissan states there are no recalls open for this VIN although nets states this make model and year has a recall out for the the fuel gauge. My gas tank incorrectly reads the gas which caused me to stall on the highway! I can drive around all day and will still show its full. Engine is also very loud during acceleration and overheats the car. Passenger airbag light will also not turn off, not sure if this is a recall, but car indicates no passenger is sitting when there is and shows the airbag will not deploy of a crash happens.
Fuel gauge shows 1/4 of a tank when it is empty. Recalls have been issued for this model but my VIN doesn't show as one of the recalls. This issue has caused my family to stall twice while driving on city street and highway.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. The contact stated that while driving approximately 65 MPH, the vehicle fuel gauge indicated quarter of tank then the vehicle stalled due to no fuel. The vehicle was refueled and it started normally. The vehicle was driven to a fuel station and then home. The vehicle was not diagnosed by the dealer or an independent mechanic. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 139,000. Updated 02/22/2017
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. After the contact filled the vehicle with fuel, the fuel gauge falsely displayed a quarter of a tank. In addition, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed, but the dealer stated that there was no recall. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact was unaware if the vehicle was repaired per the federal safety agency campaign number: 10v074000 (fuel system). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 164,240.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. The contact stated that the fuel gage on the instrument panel became inoperable. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the fuel gauge failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle was not included in the federal safety agency campaign number: 10v074000 (fuel system). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 187,355. The VIN was not available.
The driver side airbag is not working due to a faulty harness assembly. The fuel gauge does not measure fuel accurately. The ABS brake light comes on and the brakes stop working while you are driving. Nissan refuses to fix the issues without us paying over 3 grand even though these items were recalled on other nissans but there is no recall on this particular nissan. This nissan needs to be added to the recalls. We bought the car 5 months ago from go automotive and they also refused to fix the issues.
I recently learned of the safety recall 10v‑074 that described the exact situation I encountered in 2014. I was driving on expressway at 70 MPH when engine died. Luckily I was able to coast over to side of road, but was between an on ramp and off ramp--very dangerous. Fuel gauge showed 1/3 of a tank. Roadside assistance added a couple gallons of gas. I was able to start and drive to dealer. No recalls were identified for my VIN at the time so I was charged nearly $1000 to replace fuel pump/sender. I am bringing this to your attention because I have so far been unsuccessful in negotiating reimbursement from nissan. Based on the number of complaints I see on your website, I believe a non-VIN specific safety recall campaign must be initiated because this problem will most likely continue since these vehicles can last a long time--my armada had 154,000 miles on it at that time.
The instrument panel fuel gauge is inaccurately displaying that the vehicle still has some fuel, between half and one quarter tank, when the fuel tank is empty. This has cause the vehicle to run out of gas and stall on the highway, causing a dangerous safety situation. The dealer diagnosed the issue and needs to replace the fuel sender unit inside the fuel tank together with the o-ring.
On march 18, 2016, my husband was driving our 2005 nissan armada at approx 60mph on the highway. All of a sudden without warning vehicle lost power, luckily my husband was able to steer and coast vehicle to the side.this could have been tragedy.gas tank needle indicated that vehicle had a quarter tank of gas in it. No low gas light indicator was on or ever came on!! Our teenage son had been driving it for over a week. What if he was driving this when this occurred, he could have been killed or killed someone else!!!! Vehicle was at 87,632 miles when this occurred. I came to this website and observed where other drivers had the same incident happen.also observed where nissan is aware of this flaw in the armada. I advised my husband about this after he had already called a tow truck. Once he put gas in it, it started right back up. This could have been really bad, but it was only the grace of god that saved my husband surely not nissan!! Usually keep a 1/2 of tank of gas or more, but teenage son had been driving it for the last week. What if my teenager was driving it when it shut down on the highway?? This probably would not have been the same outcome.no low gas light indicator came on to warn my husband that gas was low. My husband, son or someone else could have been killed!! At the time of incident mileage was at 87,632
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. While driving 50 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The power steering and brake pedal failed. The contact coasted over to the side of the road. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the vehicle was out of fuel. In addition, another dealer diagnosed that the fuel sending unit failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was not included in the federal safety agency campaign number: 10v074000 (fuel system, other). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 95,000.
Brake booster malfunctions during normal driving causing unsafe breaking. Brakes almost lock up when pedal is depressed. You have to pull off the road,turn truck off and back on to work, and sometimes you have to do 2 or 3 times. Dealer wants $1k to fix booster and from what I have read, it does not always work fuel gauge malfunctioned, ran out of gas 2 times when gauge still shows 1/4 tank. This is a recall on newer vehicles but mine is a 2005. Airbag light is on and dealer states needs replacing
I have had numerous issues starting in 13' with the ECM being replaced after 05' armada stalled on highway traveling 70 miles/hour in heavy traffic. Recently in early 15' I ran out of gas when fuel gauge displayed a quarter tank of gas at a red light. Also in early 15' my A/C will only work when on high. Both of these issues are known & are listed as recalls that I will be making a service appointment with my local nissan dealer to research, correct & fix. There are numerous reports of similar & exact known issues online. Most recently in november 15' I was picking my children up from school in the rain. I was traveling home when I had to apply my breaks, but they did not perform as they should. The breaks made a spring sound, the brake peddle had little to no resistance when I applied my foot to stop & the break light came on. I had to veer off the road & ran into a fence post very lightly with minimal damage to my front chrome bumper. I turned car off & immediately checked on my two children in the back seat. We were all ok, thank god. I started armada to find that the break light was no longer on. I hesitated to drive due to what had just happened. I was only 3 miles from home so I slowly attempted to continue home. The armada drove perfect & the breaks functioned as they should with no issues. I googled incident to find numerous complaints & reports with similar to identical complaints/know issue reported & filed. I was blessed that my family was ok & I was able to avoid a serious potentially life threatening accident with loss of breaks one time for no reason. This was the 1st time this has happened and has not happened since. I feel this should be an immediate recall due to the severity of outcome it could cause with temporary break failure. No need for lifes to be lost or lawsuits to make it right and correct/fix issue at no cost.
The instrument panel fuel gauge inaccurately displays that the vehicle still has some fuel, about one quarter tank, when the fuel tank is empty. The vehicle stop working on several occasions while I was driving on the road with my family in the truck. I did not now that it was because of the gas. Fortunately no-one was hurt but it could have produced a series car crash also, passenger airbag light comes on so dealer had to change the old one
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 nissan armada. While driving 65 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic. The contact was notified that the vehicle was out of fuel.on two other occasions, the vehicle ran out of fuel. The vehicle was not included in the federal safety agency campaign number: 10v074000 (fuel system, other). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 75,000.
Suv ran out of fuel at freeway speeds. There is an recall but my VIN is not on the recall. Manufacturer's report date: march 22, 2010 the federal safety agency campaign id number: 10v074000 the federal safety agency action number: n/a
Suv ran out of gas at highway speed in center lane during heavy traffic on wife and kids, gauge read 1/4 of tank. Stepped on brake didn't work had a load noise, vdc light, brake light on dash. Understand now that ABS system failed and fuel sending unit failed. Nissan has told me that they have a recall on the fuel sending unit on the same year make and model but not mine? They have tried really hard to kill my family with this faulty expensive equipment.
As I was on my way home driving down the highway my truck cut off, this was the third time this has happened in over a year, each time I noticed my fuel gauge was reading 1/4 of a tank, so I check for recalls on the 2005 nissan armada and found that there was a recall for the fuel gauge system but when I called the nissan corp. They told me that the recall was VIN specific and there was no recall on my vehicle. I don't understand how that could be, if there is a recall on the 2005 armada for the fuel gauge system and my vehicles fuel system is having the same problem why isn't the recall on all nissan armadas of the same year.
While driving on the freeway, my armada all of a sudden lost power and the check engine light and others came on! I was terrified as I floated thru traffic to avoid an accident! I was in the middle lane and could only swerve across fast lane to get near the freeway divider and out of traffic! Let's just say I got over right in the nick of time! The truck died out completely! Fuel gauge showed I had about 1/4 tank of gas so I thought it was something wrong with my engine. I had just bought the car 4 days prior (no warranty) so I was really unsure of what was going on! State patrol helped get me over to towing zone and I had the truck towed home. I called the dealer and he stated that the gas gauge might be off a bit and to go ahead and add gas. I did as instructed and my truck started right back up! I researched the issue online and found there were thousands of vehicles with same issue which caused nissan to issue a recall for the fuel system- recall id# 68293, campaign# 10vo74000. I contacted nissan consumer svcs and was told that my VIN is not included in this specific recall but to take it in to dealer to verify/ confirm issue. I did so the following week and the mechanic at olympia nissan gladly confirmed issue with fuel sending unit and was quoted $465.00 plus tax to replace, which nissan would not cover. Surprisingly, I received a call earlier today from melody with nissan consumer svcs to inform me that she was escalating my issue regarding fuel system. I could have caused an accident on the freeway with the truck losing power like that, especially when gas gauge clearly shows truck still has gas! As of that day, I now make sure truck has a full tank of gas at all times! :/ nissan should step up and take responsibility for these defects before it causes fatal accidents.
I was on the highway driving 65 MPH during rush hour traffic with. As I approached a curve, the vehicle suddenly lost power and became difficult to steer. I happened to be in the far left lane, and was able to steer the vehicle to a narrow shoulder of the road. By the time I got stopped, I was sandwiched between the concrete highway divider and the fast lane of traffic. Highway assistance, aaa and my father came to my assistance. My father thought the vehicle was out of fuel, which I disputed because the low fuel indicator did not illuminate, and the gauge was at 1/4 tank. It turned out I was out of gas. I stopped relying on the gauge, and started filling up as soon as the gauge hit 1/4. Later, I ran out of gas when the gauge read 1/2 tank! Ok. Time to get this repaired. There was a recall on my year armada, for this exact issue. Great! Once I took my vehicle to the nissan dealership for repairs, they said the recall for the fuel sender was VIN specific. My mother received information from nissan customer care that the part should be covered. I asked the dealership to provide an official diagnosis for correspondence with nissan customer care, and to not perform any repairs, as I expected this to be covered. In a subsequent call to customer care with the "bad fuel sender" diagnosis, I was told I did not meet the "history of goodwill parameters", so my repair was not covered. I decided not to have the repair done. The nissan dealership then told me there was $250 of labor to dismantle the car just to diagnose, and it would be $250 more to put the car back together to where it would be drivable! Since the fuel sender repair was quoted at $800, I reluctantly went ahead with the repair. This is a dangerous manufacturer defect. Someone could die.
I have a 2005 nissan armada the fuel gauge is not accurate and caused my armada to run out of fuel in the middle of a highway at speeds of 65mph. The fuel gauge was showing I had 1/4 of a tank left as the car shutdown right in the middle of the busy highway no warning lights at 3am , very close call on a accident almost cost me my life and the cop who was helping me. We could not push my SUV off to the side. So I took the SUV to campbellnelson nissan of edmonds, I was told there's no recall on my SUV VIN specific. I was told there's a recall 2005-2009 but on not on my VIN #. They called me and said the fuel sending unit was bad and was not reading it shows 1/4 of a tank but it was out of gas. So way is my 2005 nissan armada not on the recall list what's it going to take someone to get killed! I want nissan to pay for my SUV to get fixed asap this is so wrong my SUV is still at there shop.
VIN decoder
See the problems and recalls for an exact car
Buying a used 2005 Nissan Armada?
Check the exact car before you pay: accidents, salvage or flood titles, odometer readings and previous owners.
Check its history