2020 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 147 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 331. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.6% of them mention locked, against 4.6% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Nissan Rogue ran from 2014 to 2020, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 147 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 331 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- locked — 13.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: locked, don know, got out, backed.
- aeb — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: aeb, city street.
- activated — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: activated, who unable.
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
While driving at 70mph on an empty highway, the car engages the AEB system and violently hits the brakes while no other vehicles or objects are present. Same thing happened on an empty city street a few weeks prior.
THE VEHICLE HAS ACTIVATED A FALSE AEB ON SEVERAL OCASSIONS SINCE I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE. I IMMEDIATELY TOOK IT BACK TO NISSAN AND THEY STATED THERE WERE NO RECALLS AND THE VEHICLE SEEMED TO HAVE NO ISSUES. I'VE HAD THE VEHICLE FOR 5 YEARS AND IT CONTINUES TO…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 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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