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Engine · 35 owner reports

Other engine problem on the 2018 Nissan Rogue

1 crash 1 of the 35 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Reports of this failure 35
With an odometer reading 16
Reports per 1,000 built 0.6 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 75%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $300–$4,000
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 5th

When other engine problem gets reported

Owners of the 2018 Nissan Rogue report other engine problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 35,000 miles, from 16 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 1,100 miles at the tenth percentile to 55,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 52,514 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.

75% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 16 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
1,100 miles 4,620 miles 18,500 miles 34,932 miles 53,614 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

Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2008 at 85,000 miles.

By volume the 2023 carries the most reports, with 137; the 2018 has 35. 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.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

2018 nissan rogue sv purchased early march 2018. Currently has less than 1,700 miles on it. Three times in less than three weeks, the automatic braking system has engaged while driving down a major roadway. Each time, the warning lights and dashboard have flashed and beeped. Only the front passenger brake has engaged, resulting in a major "grinding" noise and a serious jerk to the right. The most recent incident happened with a vehicle in my blind spot and almost resulted in a collision. I have taken the vehicle to the dealership, where they have been unable to replicate the problem and have told me there is no known issue or error code. The first time to the dealership, they allegedly reset the sensors and told me there was nothing wrong. Thursday, a week after it came home from the dealership, it happened again. My car is again at the dealership. Nissan continues to tell me this is not a known issue and they have no codes for similar complaints, but based on the number of complaints on this and other sites, it appears there are several known issues. I am now in a loaner rogue allegedly waiting for nissan engineers to come look…

1,680 miles NHTSA complaint 1463632 filed 2018-04-24

Also reported on the 2018 Nissan Rogue

Other brake problem

205 reports median 12k

Other driver assistance problem

162 reports median 8k

Other electrical problem

60 reports median 13k

Parking brake failure

50 reports median 26k

Seat belt or retractor failure

30 reports median 30k

Backup camera failure

27 reports median 19k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 35 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 other engine problem happen on the 2018 Nissan Rogue?

Across 16 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 35,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other engine problem on the 2018 Nissan Rogue?

35 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 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