2020 NISSAN ROGUE — Complaint #1980934
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM:MASS AIR FLOW (MAF) SENSOR filed April 5, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1980934 (ODI reference 11581280) concerns a 2020 NISSAN ROGUE and was filed on April 5, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 1, 2024. The vehicle had 124,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system:mass air flow (maf) sensor, 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 fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system:mass air flow (maf) sensor 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 2020 NISSAN ROGUE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Nissan Rogue. The contact stated while operating the vehicle, there was an abnormal fuel odor inside the cabin of the vehicle. The contact stated that the vehicle failed to properly accelerate while depressing the accelerator pedal. The vehicle was taken to the local service center which diagnosed that the mass air flow sensor was faulty and needed to be replaced. The mass air flow sensor was replaced, and the acceleration failure was corrected; however, the fuel odor remained inside the cabin of the vehicle. The local dealer and manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 124,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1980934 |
| ODI Number | 11581280 |
| Date Filed | April 5, 2024 |
| Failure Date | March 1, 2024 |
| VIN | 5N1AT2MT2LC |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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