Federal complaint record · Nissan Rogue · model year 2009

2009 Nissan Rogue

Owners submitted 320 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 50th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 23% · group n = 101Powertrain · 23% · group n = 101Engine · 8% · group n = 35Electrical · 6% · group n = 26Speed control · 6% · group n = 26
320
Complaint records on file
81,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 251 complaints reported mileage
23%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 101
50th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 39 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags23%

Airbags reports

Nissan Rogue · model year 2009

Reports in this group101
Share of classified reports23%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2008
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
429 matched incidents
This car
2009
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
320 matched incidents
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
282 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 83 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32009 Nissan Rogue
Transmission behavior · 46 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32009 Nissan Rogue
Loss of propulsion · 30 reports

Reports describe reduced power or hesitation while driving

Cluster 3 of 32009 Nissan Rogue

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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