2007 Nissan Armada: brake failure

5 of the 86 complaints about the 2007 Nissan Armada describe brake failure.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 6%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 5 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Brake failure by model year

2023
1
2019
2
2012
1
2010
1
2008
11
2007
5
2006
39
2005
41
2004
67

What owners say

Filed Jan 23, 2024 · Brakes · WA

On a continuing basis, while vehicle is in motion, applying the brakes causes brake pedal to sink to the floorboard with loss of braking power and with loud grinding noise coming from front of vehicle. Turning vehicle off then back on temporarily fixes the issue.

Filed Jul 7, 2014 · Brakes · 126,172 miles · TN

Brake light comes on while driving. So I started driving slowly. I tried to push the brake and I hear a loud grinding noise on the left front, and pedal goes to the floor. When you turn it off the ignition it goes back to the normal operation.

Filed Jun 11, 2013 · Brakes · 60,460 miles · TN

Just stopped at a stop sign. After crossing the street attempting to make a right turn attired to slow down my car lost pressure in the brake with grinding when fully pressing brake. Able to come to a stop after about 10 feet. Looked up and emergency brake light was on. Put car in park and engaged/disengaged emergency brake. Emergency brake light never went off. Pulled into parking lot and tried to stop with the same grinding/loss of brake pressure. Put my car in park and turned off ignition. Started car and emergency brake light went off and brakes worked. After researching this on multiple website this is a problem multitudes of nissan owners are experiencing. I would have not been able to stop or slow down at a higher rate of speed. According to research this is a delta brake sensor. There is a class action lawsuit for 04-06 models regarding this problem. This issue is still occurring. Nissan will only fix for around 1000.00.

Filed Sep 11, 2012 · Brakes · 100,100 miles · FL

While pulling out of a parking lot my brake light came on while pressing the brakes, the pedal went to the floor and there were no brakes. There was a grinding sound and a fluttering feeling in the brakes. I used my parking brake to come to a stop. This is the second time this happened, first was about 6 months ago on highway exit ramp (luckily I was going up hill at the time). Once you turn off the vehicle and restart the problem disappears. I have found numerous accounts of this same situation happening to armada owners who have found it to be the brake booster. This is a very serious issue with the ABS braking system and needs to be addressed by nissan.

Filed Aug 5, 2011 · Brakes · 58,126 miles · OR

Applied the brakes while driving at approximately 25 MPH, there was a loud grinding sound from the brakes and the brakes did not work. Also, made a strange sound like a spring. Pumping brakes and pushing them really hard didn't make any difference. The brakes had almost no effect in stopping the car. Fortunately, no one was killed or injured this time, but if this had happened a minute earlier on the steep hill we live on the result could have been very different. When the ignition was turned off and back on again the brakes appear to work fine. A quick search turns up many other nissan owners with the same experience when this brake system glitches. This is a more serious problem than the toyota accelerator problem because this problem disables the brakes when it occurs!! Also, many owners report that the nissan tsb instructions to re-program ABS and ECM computers does not reliably fix this problem as many have experienced reoccurences after this remedy. Nissan needs to issue a safety recall and ensure a reliable remedy for brake failure or someone will be killed by this.