2017 NISSAN ROGUE — Complaint #1443435
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:TRANSFER CASE (4-WHEEL DRIVE) filed January 26, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1443435 (ODI reference 11065359) concerns a 2017 NISSAN ROGUE and was filed on January 26, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 19, 2018. The vehicle had 3,825 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:transfer case (4-wheel drive), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same NISSAN ROGUE cohort independently describe similar power train:transfer case (4-wheel drive) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2017 NISSAN ROGUE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE FACTORY SPARE TIRE WAS INSTALLED AS REULT OF A FLAT LF TIRE. UPON DRIVING TO THE CAR DEALERSHIP ON DRY HIGHWAY, TO REPAIR FLAT, THE CARS AWD LOCK INITIATED BY ITSELF AT 50 MPH CAUSING THE DRIVE SYSTEM TO OVERHEAT WITHIN A COUPLE MINUTES. STEERING FELT LIKE ALL WHEEL DRIVE WAS ACTIVE ALONG WITH A LIGHT GROWLING NOISE. DASH ALARMS CAME ON INDICATING 'HIGH TEMPERATURE, STOP VEHICLE'. I STOPPED, AWD LOCK INDICATOR GOES OFF ALONG WITH HIGH TEMPERATURE ALARM. RESUMED DRIVING TO DEALERSHIP AND 1MINUTE LATER THE PROBLEM REPATED EXACTLY THE SAME AGAIN. RESUMED DRIVING AGAIN, PROBLEM REPEATS TWO MORE TIMES RESULTING IN 4 TOTAL STOPS ON THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY BEFORE AN EXIT. NISSAN DEALER ANALYSIS STATES THAT WHEN REACHING 50 MPH WITH SPARE TIRE IN USE WILL HAPPEN AND IS NOT DEFINED AS A VALID DEFECT OR PROBLEM. I BELIEVE THIS CREATES SAFETY HAZARDS FROM STOPPING, CHANGE IN STEERING HANDLING AND POTENTIAL OF MAJOR COMPONENTS FAILURE POSSIBLY FIRE OF OVERHEATING. *DSY
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1443435 |
| ODI Number | 11065359 |
| Date Filed | January 26, 2018 |
| Failure Date | January 19, 2018 |
| VIN | JN1BJ1CR9HW |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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