2010 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 282 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 331. What they were about is the unusual part: 6% of them mention hood, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Nissan Rogue, which began in 2008 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 282 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 331 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 17 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- hood — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: hood, smoke.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
AS I WAS DRIVING MY CAR I SEE SMOKE ENTERING FROM THE DASHBOARD, I KNEW THAN THAT MY CAR WILL BURST ON FIRE. I PARKED ON AN EMPTY PARKING RIGHT AWAY AND GOT OUT FROM THE CAR AND RUN AS FAST AS I CAN. THE CAR QUICKLY CAUGHT ON FIRE FROM THE HOOD AND BY THE TIME…
VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION, ON A COUNTRY RD. THERE WAS A SMELL, ALMOST LIKE IF WINDSHIELD WASHER FLUID SPILLS, THEN SMOKE FROM UNDER THE HOOD. THEN FLAMES ON THE RIGHT FRONT, UNDER THE HOOD. I PULLED OVER, TURNED THE CAR OFF, GRABBED MY PURSE AND RAN. 2 GOOD SAMARI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V032000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 10V401000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Rogue was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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