Overheating on the 2011 Nissan Rogue
When overheating gets reported
Owners of the 2011 Nissan Rogue report overheating at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 70,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles, from 18 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 102,000 miles. It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 65,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 165,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 95,700 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
0% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67,300 miles | 72,000 miles | 86,000 miles | 100,000 miles | 163,000 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $400–$3,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2021 at 110,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 34; the 2011 has 19. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 nissan rogue. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle decelerated numerous times and the failsafe mode light illuminated. Also, the transmission overheated once causing the transmission fluid to leak. The dealer test drove the vehicle but was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 61,000.
While relocating from md to tn (approx. 11 hours) in july, traveling the interstate vehicle began losing acceleration after about 2 hours of driving. Vehicle never stopped not overheated. After brief resting periods (15 mins or more), vehicle's performance improved but never returned to normal. Upon arrival to tn, vehicle was checked for clogged fuel injectors and oil/battery levels and functions. All were fine. Changed gas from regular to premium to minimize/correct possible problems. A few weeks later, a 3 hour trip was taken and the issue recurred. Took the car to carmax where it was purchased and they tried to recreate the issue and had the vehicle all day without duplication. In august, relocated from tn to ga, approximately a 3 hour trip, and the same problem occurred again. Took the car to the nissan dealership for evaluation, car was there for almost a month as the root cause was a faulty transmission setting that prevent the vehicle from accelerating if the transmission got too hot. Turns out the setting was so low that the above-mentioned problems occurred. I ended up having to have a transmission replaced in a…
Going down the interstate at cruising speed with speed control set I noticed that the when climbing a hill we were losing excessive speed and the engine speed would not increase. I disengaged the speed control and manually tried to accelerate and the engine would not increase over 2500 rpms. I immediately tried to exit up an off ramp and could not climb the ramp faster than 10mph. We allowed the rogue to sit for 10 min.'s thinking that is was overheating. When we resumed the trip the rogue was acting normal again. Until the return trip when the same thing happened. Since then it has happened several times. I took it back to the dealership where they told me that there was a service bulletin concerning this issue, but the 2011 model was not covered. In my opinion any system that disengages the acceleration system while traveling the interstate is a major safety concern. Having driven and worked on cars all my life, I have never had one that scared me like this. It is not a comfortable feeling looking in the mirror to see a semi gaining on you and there is basically nothing you can do to get out of the way. *tr
Also reported on the 2011 Nissan Rogue
Other powertrain problem
CVT failure
Complete transmission failure
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 19 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does overheating happen on the 2011 Nissan Rogue?
Across 18 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 70,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is overheating on the 2011 Nissan Rogue?
19 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed