2014 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 434 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 320. What they were about is the unusual part: 12% of them mention water, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Nissan Rogue was redesigned for 2014. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 434 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 320 |
| Involving a crash | 22 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 27.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- water — 12% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: water, floor, wet, side floor.
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
There is a water leak on the driver side floor and the body shop can figure out where it's coming from. My vehicle also had issues with the latch due to corrosion. The body shop was able to fix that issue. My navigation system and dash turns off and on as I am…
I HAVE HAD MY VEHICLE TO DEALER 4 TIMES NOW FOR WATER LEAK DRIVERS SIDE FLOOR. LAST TIME WAS BODY SHOP. FACTORY WELD WAS THE LAST DIAGNOSIS. WENT TO GET INTO MY CAR THIS MORNING AFTER A HARD RAIN AND THE FLOOR WAS WET ALSO WET ABOVE DRIVERS DOOR COULD BE ANOTH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V244000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V219000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V218000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V149000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V229000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V197000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V032000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V012000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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