2018 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 609 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 320. What they were about is the unusual part: 26.9% of them mention braking, against 5.7% 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 | 609 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 320 |
| Involving a crash | 32 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 31 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- braking — 26.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (4.7×). Owners wrote it as: braking, emergency braking, braking system, automatic braking.
- automatic — 24% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: automatic, system engaged, cars front, automatic breaking.
- emergency — 24.5% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: emergency, automatic emergency, emergency brake, abruptly.
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
ABRUPT AUTOMATIC [VIN] BRAKING OCCURRED IN TWO INCIDENTS WHILE TRAVELLING ON BOULEVARD. WEATHER WAS CLEAR, THERE WERE NO VEHICLES IN FRONT (AND FORTUNATELY NONE BEHIND) WHEN THE AUTOMATIC BRAKING SYSTEM ENGAGED. DID NOT BRING VEHICLE TO COMPLETE STOP BUT THE B…
ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS (7/5/2019 & 7/15/2019) THE CAR ENGAGED ITS AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING SYSTEM (ALERTED AND BRAKED TO A STOP SUDDENLY) WHILE IN MOTION FOR NO APPARENT REASON. BOTH EVENTS HAPPENED IN THE SAME LOCATION (ON A HIGHWAY UNDER AN OVERPASS BR…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V654000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 21V839000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V093000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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