2015 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 548 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 320. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.6% of them mention heat, against 1.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Nissan Rogue, which began in 2014 and ran to 2020. 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 | 548 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 320 |
| Involving a crash | 30 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 27.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- heat — 6.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: heat, defrost, heating, winter.
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
My 2015 Rogue has a heating issue. The heat is only warm on passenger side. This also means the defrost doesn't work which can cause issues of seeing the road in rainy or snowy conditions.
DURING A COLD SEASON, THERE WAS FOG AND ICE ON THE WINDSHIELD AND I TURNED ON THE DEFROSTER TO CLEAR IT. THE HEATING FUNCTION OF THE DEFROSTER FAILED, AND I COULD NOT CLEAR THE WINDSHIELD OR KEEP IT CLEAR AS I DROVE.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V911000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V453000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 16V219000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V368000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V244000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V012000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
- 15V775000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 22V024000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. 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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