A comfortable, cheap-to-buy family SUV riding on a CVT whose warranty safety net has now expired — buy only with the transmission proven healthy.

Recall 22V024 (Nissan code R21B9) covers 2014–2016 Rogues whose under-dash electrical connector corrodes from water and road salt entering through the driver's-side footwell. The consequence Nissan lists is real: power window/seat failure, an all-wheel-drive warning light, battery drain, and connector damage that increases the risk of a fire. The fix — dealers clean and re-grease both connectors — is free and permanent. Verify it was done by VIN, especially on any salt-belt car; wet driver's carpet is a warning sign.

Recall 23V093 (Nissan code R22C5) covers 2014–2020 Rogues with a folding 'jackknife' key that can collapse into the folded position while driving; if your knee bumps it, the engine can shut off and the airbags may not deploy in a crash. The remedy is a free spacer inserted into the key slot. It's a cheap, quick fix — just confirm it shows completed.

The 2016 Rogue sits in a cluster of seat and airbag-sensor recalls: 16V244 and 16V911 both address the front passenger Occupant Classification System (OCS — the sensor that decides whether the passenger airbag arms), which could misclassify an adult and disable the airbag; 17V663 and 17V716 cover improperly welded rear and front-passenger seat frames. All are free dealer fixes. These are old campaigns, so on a used car the question is simply whether they were completed — run the VIN.

AWD 2016 Rogues show a smaller but real pattern of rear-differential and transfer-case failures — grinding noise, metal shavings in the transfer-case oil, in a few cases the differential 'exploding through the housing.' Separately, mechanics flag weak cabin heat traced to low coolant, a coolant leak, or air in the system (a bleed usually cures it). On an AWD test drive, listen for driveline whine or grinding; check that the heater blows genuinely hot.