Premature brake pad or rotor wear on the 2009 Nissan Titan
Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When premature brake pad or rotor wear gets reported
There are 3 reports of premature brake pad or rotor wear on the 2009 Nissan Titan, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 230 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,400 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 5 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2009, at a median of 200 miles, and latest on the 2007 at 65,000 miles.
By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 85; the 2009 has 3. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
2009 nissan titan crew cab noticed it two days after buying this truck very bumpy ride at 40 to 45 mpg and shaking at 55mph when braking truck jidders pulls some to the left you can see brake rotor on passengers side starting to scron has been to two different dealers unoted nissan of las vegas 8 times they say its ok well its not and desert nissan once again you can see it there is a grove starting to cut into the rotor I will not drive this truck its unsafe and the dealer out here will not fix this tis truck has 3500 miles on brake should not be bad we are just going to give it back its a shame when a delaer will not back its product have complined to nissan cocumwer affairs twice ref# 6754354 & ref# 6736952 with no results
2009 nissan titan crew cab noticed it two days after buying this truck very bumpy ride at 40 to 45 mpg and shaking at 55mph when braking truck jidders pulls some to the left you can see brake rotor on passengers side starting to scron has been to two different dealers unoted nissan of las vegas 8 times they say its ok well its not and desert nissan once again you can see it there is a grove starting to cut into the rotor I will not drive this truck its unsafe and the dealer out here will not fix this tis truck has 3500 miles on brake should not be bad we are just going to give it back its a shame when a delaer will not back its product have complined to nissan cocumwer affairs twice ref# 6754354 & ref# 6736952 with no results
In july 2013, I noticed a loud squealing noise coming from the rear wheel while driving. When I got home I took the wheel off and it was noted that the parking brake pad on the drivers side had separated from the brake shoe itself. There were big chunks of brake pad stuck in the wheel. The pieces were removed and placed in a bag. I brought the pieces to my local dealer on the next oil change and inquired why this happened. The service rep said that this type of thing happened more often than you would think. In january 2014, I kept hearing a thumping noise coming from my passengers side rear wheel. I wrote to nissan about the parts quality and safety concerns I had and they wanted the vehicle inspected by a certified nissan dealer to establish the cause of the problem and whether it was a covered part. On the way to the dealer, something shifted in my rear wheel on the passengers side causing a loud grinding noise. The approx. Speed was 25 MPH. When the service tech at the dealer pulled the wheel off, he found the parking brake pads to be separated from the brake shoes. The pads became entangled in the wheel causing further…
Also reported on the 2009 Nissan Titan
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other brake problem
CV axle or driveshaft failure
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 3 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does premature brake pad or rotor wear happen on the 2009 Nissan Titan?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 200 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is premature brake pad or rotor wear on the 2009 Nissan Titan?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed