My 2014 Rogue so far ....

[dkmuramoto]

Interesting that most of the criticisms of the new Rogue involve the electronics package. Issues with voice recognition/command, around view monitor, radio performance, etc. are similar in nature to the ones that led Consumer Reports to downgrade Ford's overall performance with their latest interactive boffins. It's an issue that most consumers expect will work seamlessly and without any glitches. Every car manurfacturer--from Ford to Nissan--should be recognizing this shift in perception and expectation.

[melephant]

Hi all - I picked up my 2014 Rogue SL with premium package 2 weeks ago. So far the only issues I've had are with the bluetooth. I have an iphone 5 running ios 7.0.4. The first few days my phone connected no problem and I was able to get the car to read my text messages once I turned display notifications on in my bluetooth settings (can't send texts but I understand that is an iOS conflict). However, the last few days my phone either won't connect for a very long time after I start the car, or in the case of this morning it won't connect at all. I tried to connect my entire 45 minute drive to work with no luck. I even tried forgetting the device in my bluetooth settings on my phone and adding it as a new device and it still didn't work (it just hung on the loading screen forever). This is my first car with built in bluetooth and was very excited to have it but it's useless if it never connects! Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Thanks!

[stlrpsu]

I have had my '14 Rogue for about 3 weeks, SL w/ premium package.

As far as voice recognition goes, it is not the best, but you can go past the lady telling you what to do by clicking the phone button twice rather than once. It beeps, shows the speaking prompt, and you can say "call__". Much better this way. I have noticed I need to say the name perfectly and often get choices.

I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 and was told by a Nissan rep that it cannot run the apps by bluetooth, it has to be tethered by USB cable. Even with that, I cannot get iHeart Radio to play through the app on the screen and have not tried the texting through usb yet (I don't think I have gotten one while it is tethered).

I have been very please with the Rogue and I am coming from a '11 Mazda CX-9. I haven't had any mechanical issues, mpg is as expected (though my avg that displays is different than what comes up on my screen when I shut my car off). I have been suprised by the performance and power as I was concerned coming from my fun to drive powerful mazda (I wanted a smaller, more fuel efficient SUV with more gadgets this time around). I guess time will tell, but I am overall happy and am not having the buggy issues as of yet. I am hoping to find out more about the phone syncing when I go for my first service (which will be a while!) if not before. Not anything huge though.

I think this is a beautiful car with awesome features that drives extremely well. So call me hopeful :-)

[1019throw]

Hi all:

Picked up a new 2014 SV /prem pkg Rogue in white with black interior.
Love it so far, we have 200 miles on it in about a week with 25 MPG with 50% city driving.
The dealer was Rothrock in Allentown PA and I have to say they really worked with us to negotiate a great deal.
We paid below invoice on a newly redesigned car! Our price was better than truecar and included a recent grad discount.

We really like the camera and nav unit on this the most.
All the technology features are working as advertised which was a pleasure.
The Bluetooth and texting features are a hit.

A few things we miss include homelink (garage door opener),
The homelink accessory with dimming rearview mirror may be the first upgrade we get.

Love the CVT as well, it is so smooth and a very efficient alternative.
CVT was one of the reasons we picked the Rogue over CRV/Rav4

I live in Bethlehem. Have you experienced lower MPG due to the extreme cold this winter so far?

[gpoole]

Hey! I wanted to comment as I also have a 2014 Rogue SL with premium package.
I have at times had the audio / nav system lock up and reboot and once my phone would not work until i RE-PARED it.
However I wanted to comment on the text messaging feature. I have an iphone 5 running the latest IOS 7.0.6... which is the latest prior to the just release 7.1.

The text messaging works fine for me. When I am in the car, the system will tell me incoming text from whoever it is from and let me choose to have it read to me. If the car is stopped or in park, it will also display it in either or both of my display screens. I have to say i love THAT feature and it works great. in most cases the car voice deciphers the text pretty well too. Not quite as well as Siri does but it is still good.

The biggest problem I am having is with the warning beeps... if i play music at a reasonable level, the warning beeps for blind spot warning or forward collision warning or moving object detection can barely be heard. Does anyone know of a way to turn the warning beeps louder? practically everything ELSE in the car is configurable or can be turned on and off in the computer. I actually also called 800-NISSAN1 and create a case about this. Waiting to hear back from my "regional representative". Its only been a day though since i called them.

[gpoole]

Hi all - I picked up my 2014 Rogue SL with premium package 2 weeks ago. So far the only issues I've had are with the bluetooth. I have an iphone 5 running ios 7.0.4. The first few days my phone connected no problem and I was able to get the car to read my text messages once I turned display notifications on in my bluetooth settings (can't send texts but I understand that is an iOS conflict). However, the last few days my phone either won't connect for a very long time after I start the car, or in the case of this morning it won't connect at all. I tried to connect my entire 45 minute drive to work with no luck. I even tried forgetting the device in my bluetooth settings on my phone and adding it as a new device and it still didn't work (it just hung on the loading screen forever). This is my first car with built in bluetooth and was very excited to have it but it's useless if it never connects! Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Thanks!

Hi Melephant, something similar happened to me once in my new 2014 Rogue SL with premium package- mine is gun metallic with almond beige interior. I deleted my pared phone and let the car sit overnight, then the next day i pared it up again and its worked pretty fine every since. i am running ios 7.0.6 on my iphone 5 and i am about to upgrade to ios 7.1. good luck!

[saws]

I live in Bethlehem. Have you experienced lower MPG due to the extreme cold this winter so far?

My MPG is consistently between 24 and 25 so far, it peaked at 28 for a 50 mile trip to reading.
I have had the Rogue for a month now so don't know warm weather mpg yet, all my driving has been in freezing temps.

[azieba]

, I cannot get iHeart Radio to play through the app on the screen and have not tried the texting through usb yet (I don't think I have gotten one while it is tethered).

I had the iHeart Radio problem... It had me stumped for a week or two. What I didn't realize is that there are 2 iHeart Radio apps in the App Store. There is one specifically for cars that interface with audio decks. That is the one you want to use. The standard one does not work.

As for text messages. It appeared at one point in time for me. It is gone now. I have a 5s and 4 both paired to my Rogue, neither one works. I think I am going kill the pairings and start from scratch.

[mag318]

I've had my new Rogue for 11 days now and have put 500 miles on it. The AWD SL has been perfect and trouble free, everything works as it should. I had a 2008 Rogue that was one of the better vehicles I've ever owned and this new one I think will be even better. The interior mirrors my 2013 Altima 3.5 SL so most of the controls are identical. Nissan has been producing these for 6 months now so I think any problems that occurred have obviously corrected. So far so good, absolutely zero problems.

[Femcrae3]

Still no luck with the text messaging features on mine (SV w/ premium pkg. incl. nav). It doesn't do anything when I receive texts, and if I tell voice recognition to read or send texts it tells me text messaging isn't available.

Posters above who suggested un-pairing and then re-pairing - that sounds like a genius idea. I tried it once with no luck, but maybe I'll try what someone else said about un-pairing before I go to bed, letting it sit all night and then re-pairing in the morning.

I'm still thinking my radio is just bad/buggy. TRUE STORY: the other day my wife and I got in it and the radio was turned up pretty loud. I kept turning the volume down, nothing, and I told my wife sometimes it's just slow to respond when it's starting up, so we drove along for 30 seconds or so and it was still blaring and not responding at all to the volume knob and I yelled at my wife, "DON'T WORRY, IT'LL CRASH IN JUST A SEC." Right then the screen went to black, complete silence, then the Nissan logo reappeared and it restarted.

Other than the radio/text issue, which is driving me crazy, I really do love my Rogue more and more. Feels solid, rides well, lots of room for kids and junk, and gets good gas mileage.

[tsumeone]

once my phone would not work until i RE-PARED it.

I had this problem. I actually am waiting for a response from the NissanConnect people because my phone (Sprint HTC One 4.4.2) has required me to repair it more than once, and also I will sometimes get a message saying my phone has slow/no Internet (not true, it was even on Wi-Fi one of the times). A lot of the time the NissanConnect app on the phone doesn't open up like it's supposed to, and when I open it manually it refuses to connect to the car (just says "Disconnected") even though it is connected via bluetooth and even streaming music to the car. This is probably made worse because the Sprint HTC One has a bug where it will randomly drop all connection (Wifi and 3G or 4G) and quickly reconnect, but I suspect the NissanConnect app on the phone is not actually re-establishing it's connection to the Internet. Then when I try to use Facebook or Google from the car's apps menu I get errors and nothing works. Either way, the system needs more testing and should be more robust.

The biggest problem I am having is with the warning beeps... if i play music at a reasonable level, the warning beeps for blind spot warning or forward collision warning or moving object detection can barely be heard. Does anyone know of a way to turn the warning beeps louder? practically everything ELSE in the car is configurable or can be turned on and off in the computer. I actually also called 800-NISSAN1 and create a case about this. Waiting to hear back from my "regional representative". Its only been a day though since i called them.

This is a huge gripe of mine as well. The warning beeps are inaudible over music at a moderate or louder volume. When I called about this I was basically told "that's just the way it is, sorry" and also "take it to the dealer" (what is the dealer going to do?? they are not the ones who write the car's programming...) Maybe I'll try again and see if they can open a case. For the record, I have a 2014 Rogue SV AWD w/ Premium. I would have gone SL, but I seriously hate getting into cars with leather seats after they've been sitting out in the sun

[melephant]

Still no luck with the text messaging features on mine (SV w/ premium pkg. incl. nav). It doesn't do anything when I receive texts, and if I tell voice recognition to read or send texts it tells me text messaging isn't available.

Posters above who suggested un-pairing and then re-pairing - that sounds like a genius idea. I tried it once with no luck, but maybe I'll try what someone else said about un-pairing before I go to bed, letting it sit all night and then re-pairing in the morning.

I'm still thinking my radio is just bad/buggy. TRUE STORY: the other day my wife and I got in it and the radio was turned up pretty loud. I kept turning the volume down, nothing, and I told my wife sometimes it's just slow to respond when it's starting up, so we drove along for 30 seconds or so and it was still blaring and not responding at all to the volume knob and I yelled at my wife, "DON'T WORRY, IT'LL CRASH IN JUST A SEC." Right then the screen went to black, complete silence, then the Nissan logo reappeared and it restarted.

Other than the radio/text issue, which is driving me crazy, I really do love my Rogue more and more. Feels solid, rides well, lots of room for kids and junk, and gets good gas mileage.

Are you using an iPhone? To get my text messages to display I had to go into the settings menu on my phone, and then bluetooth. Then click on the info button (i) next to your rogue. Make sure "Show Notifications" is on otherwise it won't display your text messages. This worked for me with my iphone 5 and with my husband's iphone 5.

[tsumeone]

So far with the Nav system I have found the voice recognition when looking up POIs to be terrible. This wouldn't be so bad if it did not completely lock you out of the screen, leaving you at the mercy of the voice recognition.

Many things I tried to look up on a trip today via voice recognition were just not working. It refused to recognize Fort Henry Mall even when I said it in the clearest voice possible. That is how it is spelled in the nav system when you look it up under shopping centers, but it just will not work if you try to look it up by voice. Wouldn't work with Belk either, kept pulling up things that don't even sound close. Golden Dragon was another one it could not understand and kept showing me things that sounded totally different. All of these businesses are actually in the mapping info on the nav unit, so I know it's not that they're not in there, it's the bad voice recognition. So far the only things I've had luck with were saying McDonald's and Taco Bell.

If you say an address, it is painfully slow to parse the speech but usually gets it right. Too bad I don't know the exact address of most places I'd be looking up POIs for One way around this is to use the google voice search with the NissanConnect apps. While it requires a lot more button presses, it for some reason seems to actually get things right.

The nav system overall is not exactly impressive for the cost of the premium package. Oh well though, I had to take it if I wanted the BSW and LDW. Just wish this technology would have improved a bit more than it has in the past 10 years.

[stlrpsu]

Daltonvol - the text feature on mine doesn't work whether it's connected by USB or not, and Nissan told me in and email AND on the phone that it's b/c iOS 7 isn't supported. But some folks on here are saying that it works for them, so I think my radio is just buggy.

About 99.9% sure that radio software updates are done by the dealer only - they don't happen wirelessly or anything.

Someone may have already posted it, but if you need to go to the settings in your bluetooth settings (where it says Rogue) and hit the "i". Then turn on notifications. This allows the texts to come through when tethered. You cannot send a text back through the tether or bluetooth. It's an iPhone thing apparently. Hopefully they will get it fixed. I have an iPhone 5 running the newest iOS 7 update.


Hope that helps!

[Voodoo13]

Have had my 2014 for 7 days now and love it. I had a slight leak issue in the back hatch but turns out it was the location of where I ran my Satellite Radio Antenna wire. Once I moved that to the bottom, leak was gone.

Do any of you have an external Sirius Satellite Radio? If so, where did U install the receiver?

And after several hours, still no concrete solution on turning off the daytime running lights or even a possible install of a manual switch.

[RyleyinSTL]

When playing MP3 files via a USB stick I sometimes seem to get static, as if someone was wiggling a bad speaker connection. Anyone else seeing that?