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Nissan Rogue 2008

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.64 per 1,000

1.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 48 complaints filed in the first three years, of 429 ever. 95% lower bound 0.46.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.64	48
2009	0.28	21
2010	0.40	35
2011	0.21	24
2012	0.20	26
2013	0.41	63
2014	0.69	124
2015	0.41	99
2016	0.33	101
2017	0.58	214
2018	0.92	373
2019	0.49	188
2020	0.21	61
2021	0.41	106
2022	0.31	74
2023	2.09	478

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 156 complaints

cvt	55	34%
cvt transmission	37	23%
extended	17	11%
trip	16	10%
extended warranty	15	10%
grinding	14	9%

Air Bags 129 complaints

included	32	25%
flashing	31	24%
light flashing	14	11%
included recall	14	11%
bags electrical	14	11%
ocs	13	10%

Vehicle Speed Control 51 complaints

cvt	12	24%
trip	10	20%

When it breaks

15% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 82,700 miles, from 356 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.