YearTell editorial · 2026-09-07

Nissan Rogue Complaints and Recalls by Year

In plain English

People filed 7,140 problem reports on the Nissan Rogue across 18 years (2008–2025). Owners named Transmission / driveline more often than any other system.

2023 has the most reports (696). That is often age, not a ranking. Open the year you are buying.

Transmission / driveline. Have a shop drive it and check the transmission: hard or delayed shifts, burnt-smelling fluid, and 4WD engagement if equipped. Then read that year-page for recalls and owner text.

Rogue is kept apart from the Murano. Open a year-page; if power-train dominates that year, have the transmission inspected.

NHTSA complaint counts are self-selected reports. They are not normalised for sales volume and they are not a reliability score. YearTell does not publish stars, “best year” lists or advice to avoid a vehicle.

This guide reports NHTSA owner-complaint and recall counts for the Nissan Rogue from the 2026-09-07 snapshot. 7,140 owner reports are on file across 18 published model years (2008–2025). 2023 has the highest complaint count (696).

Older model years have had longer to accumulate reports, so a high lifetime total is not evidence that a year is worse to own. YearTell does not adjust these figures for how many vehicles were sold.

Where a system dominates the file, it is named below as a count, not as a diagnosis. Open the year-page for the component table, the recall list and a short set of owner narratives.

Years that appear most often in NHTSA complaints

Model year Owner complaints Recall campaigns System named most often
2008 Nissan Rogue 424 5 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2009 Nissan Rogue 318 3 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2010 Nissan Rogue 279 2 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2011 Nissan Rogue 361 2 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2012 Nissan Rogue 314 2 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2013 Nissan Rogue 607 1 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2014 Nissan Rogue 435 10 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2015 Nissan Rogue 546 9 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2016 Nissan Rogue 539 7 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2017 Nissan Rogue 596 6 Transmission / driveline (POWER TRAIN)
2018 Nissan Rogue 666 4 Automatic braking / collision warning (FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE)
2019 Nissan Rogue 332 4 Automatic braking / collision warning (FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE)
2020 Nissan Rogue 149 1 Automatic braking / collision warning (FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE)
2021 Nissan Rogue 283 10 Engine (ENGINE)
2022 Nissan Rogue 229 6 Engine (ENGINE)
2023 Nissan Rogue 696 6 Engine (ENGINE)
2024 Nissan Rogue 191 4 Glass / wipers / cameras (VISIBILITY)
2025 Nissan Rogue 175 3 Glass / wipers / cameras (VISIBILITY)

Recall campaigns are manufacturer safety actions filed with NHTSA. A year can have many complaints and few recalls, or the reverse. The two series answer different questions.

If you are comparing two adjacent years, use the equal-exposure comparison when one exists. That window holds age constant so the later year is not punished for having had less time on the road.

A practical read: open the year you are shopping, note the system named most often, read every recall campaign, then skim the owner filings for that system. Take that list to a mechanic. Do not turn the complaint total into a score.

Model-year records cited

How YearTell builds these numbers

Counts are not a reliability score.

Frequently asked questions

Which Nissan Rogue year has the most NHTSA complaints in this snapshot?

2023 has the highest owner-report count (696). That is a count, not advice to avoid the year.

Are these figures a reliability rating?

No. YearTell does not publish reliability scores. Read the methodology for what complaint counts cannot tell you.

Where does the data come from?

NHTSA owner complaints and safety recall campaigns, snapshot 2026-09-07. Each cited year-page links to the federal records.