2004 Nissan Titan: doors won't lock, open or latch

Filed Dec 28, 2017 · Body · 93,000 miles · NY

Door latch assembly freezes and no door can be opened. Truck was parked overnight outside. Doors cannot be opened from outside, if entry is gained doors can be opened from inside.

Filed Mar 11, 2017 · Body · NY

Nissan has at each service bulletin on this issues. Tsb # ntb05-118a 2004 ' 2005 titan and armada; outside door handle cable freezes; door difficult to close in cold temperatures nissan is aware of this problem as well as many many other owners after doing a google search. Stationary happens every night when temperatures fall below 30 deg

Filed Dec 30, 2013 · Locks · 112,000 miles · OH

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 nissan titan. The contact stated that all of the door locks would become inoperable in extremely cold temperatures. In addition, the doors could not be opened. The contact would have to open the windows and open the door from the exterior of the vehicle. When the contact attempted to close the door, the door would not latch securely. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the technician diagnosed that the door latches needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 112,000 and the current mileage was 150,000.

Filed Jul 18, 2012 · Electrical · 75,000 miles · TN

On certain king cab trucks, the wires in the harness were routed through the rear doors and into the body. These wires may break due to over bending of the harness as the door is opened and closed. The harness contains wires for the driver seat belt pretensioner and for the front passenger seat belt which is part of the occupant classification system. Wires for the rear audio speakers are also contained n the harness. Consequence: if the wires for the seat belts and speaker wires break and make contact, there is a possibility that the pretensioner may deploy. If this happens when the seat belt is retracted, it will not be possible to use the seat belt. If one of the wires on the right side harness for the seat belt tension sensor breaks, the passenger side front air bag will not deploy as designed in a frontal collision increasing the risk of a crash and personal injury. I went to wallace nissan, kingsport, tn, on 07/18/2012 and described the above mentioned problem, and was told that the campaign had ended and they would not repair this problem, I explained that the dome lights and the door lock were effected by this flawed design problem,. I am very much afraid that the broken wires will short out and start a fire.

Filed Jan 26, 2011 · Body, Locks · 55,000 miles · PA

Tl*the contact owns a 2004 nissan titan. While the vehicle was parked the contact was unable to immediately open the front passenger side door due to inclement weather. When the door opened the contact was unable to close it. The failure always occurred whenever it was extremely cold. The manufacturer stated that they were unable to provide assistance because the warranty expired and because of the high mileage. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 55,000. . Updated 03/03/11 *bf the consumer stated the drier's door exterior door handle would freeze when the temperature dropped below 20 degrees. The door handle would become very stiff or hard to open. Once the door was opened, the latch would not catch and therefore the door would not shut. Updated 03/09/11

Filed Feb 28, 2010 · Body, Locks · 62,000 miles · OH

The issue I am having is with my 2004 nissan titan. When it gets cold out, all of the door handle freeze and won't open. If you are lucky after a few hours and you do get it open, you can't get them shut. Several times I had to tie the seat belt around the interior door handle in addition to holding the door close so I could get home. I took my car to ricart nissan and they said it will $1000 to fix all 4 doors. So, I contacted nissan directly and they refused to fix it. This is a serious safety issue and someone is going to get injured and/or killed.

Filed Dec 22, 2009 · Locks · 78,000 miles · MA

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 nissan titan. Since purchase the door locks fail when the weather was cold. He was not able to lock or unlock the doors. While parked in warmer areas the door locks work normal. He contacted the dealer and was advised that they were not aware of the failure. The estimated cost to replace the cables and latch was $1,600.00. No repairs were made. He will contact the manufacturer. The failure and current mileages were 78,000.

Filed Dec 10, 2009 · Locks · 70,000 miles · MI

Doors will not close in freezing temperatures. This has forced me to drive with my door open numerous times...how is this not a serious safety concern? When trying to close the doors they bounce back open and do not latch.

Filed Mar 10, 2009 · Locks · MN

The door handles lock either open or closed and can lock you out of your vehicle even if the doors are unlocked or lock the door open which makes it impossible to close your door.

Filed Jan 31, 2009 · Locks, Transmission · 40,000 miles · PA

I bought a 20004 nissan titan used and within months both the front and rear diff. Have gone bad and had to be replaced. Now when it gets cold my door handles freeze. The handles can not be opened ,then they will not close you need to hold them closed and lock the doors to keep them closed. This is unsafe.

Filed Dec 13, 2008 · Locks · 51,000 miles · OH

The door handles on my 2004 nissan titan all freeze shut when it gets cold out. It seems to let water come in around handle and than it freezes. This prevent me from being able to gain entrance into vehicle. This occurs everytime it is cold out especially in winter. Nissan refuses to pay for repairs as vehicle is out of warranty and it will cost roughly $175 for parts per door plus labor. I guess in later models they have redesigned them but refuses to fix vehicles with old old designed handles.

Filed Dec 8, 2008 · Locks · 23,000 miles · MA

2004 nissan titan se 4x4 off road king cab anytime the weather is at or below 20 deg f both doors freeze shut. I cannot use the door handles on either side of the truck to open the doors. If I attempt to manually roll down the window to open the door from the inside the window is sometimes frozen as well and will not move. In weather around 20-25 def f the door handles will sometimes work to open the doors but the handles and internal door cables will not move back to their original position to allow the door to close and latch properly leaving the doors in an open state. This posses a safety risk to the occupants of the vehicle if it is driven in this state. This occurs anytime the ambient air temperature reaches around +20 deg f nissan has so far refused to repair the problem under warranty although a tsb ntb05-118a exists for this problem. I have replaced one external door handle that was broken as a result of excess force by trying to open a frozen door.