2008 Nissan Rogue
This year drew an ordinary 429 complaints for a Nissan Rogue — the model's median is 320. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.5% of them mention full, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Nissan Rogue was redesigned for 2008. 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 | 429 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 320 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- full — 10.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: full, gauge, tank, gas gauge.
- took car — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
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
THE FUEL GAUGE DOES NOT REGISTER IF THERE IS FUEL IN THE TANK, THIS HAS BEEN AN ON-GOING ISSUE FOR MANY MONTHS, AND HAS GRADUALLY GOT WORSE TO THE POINT, THAT WHEN YOU START THE ENJOY IT ALWAYS STARTS AT ZERO. NISSAN HAD A RECALL ON A NUMBER OF OTHER MODELS AN…
GAS GAUGE SHOW EMPTY SOMETIMES WHEN ITS ON HALF TANK THEN THE ENGINE LIGHTS TURN ON,WHEN GET FULL TANK AND RUN FOR 2 HRS THE ENGINE LIGHTS GOES OFF BUT WHEN GAS TANK GET TO HALF, SOMETIMES WHEN ENGINE STARTS THE GAUGE SHOWS EMPTY TANK AGAIN AND THEN IN SHORT T…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V032000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 09V393000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 09V411000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 10V401000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 08V521000 AIR BAGS
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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