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Substantial Defect
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering and persistent electrical faults qualify. A rattle generally does not.
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NISSAN LEMON LAW.
Nissan recalled 642,699 Rogues in a single day in February 2026 — one campaign for engines that seize, another for throttle bodies whose gears break. Both are the 1.5-litre VC-Turbo.
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EXPLORE ↓What Decides It
Four facts, in this order.
Nissan built it, but Nissan does not decide it. These four questions decide it, and the repair orders in your glovebox answer all four.
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Repair Attempts
Florida looks for three attempts at the same defect. New York looks for four. Recall work and visits that found nothing both count.
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Days Out of Service
Thirty cumulative days in Florida and in New York. Cumulative, not consecutive, and the days count whether or not anything was fixed.
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Coverage Window
The defect has to be reported while the vehicle is inside the warranty or rights period. When it was reported matters more than today's date.
Nissan's current exposure runs through one engine. The 1.5-litre three-cylinder VC-Turbo in the Rogue produced two campaigns filed on the same day in February 2026 — 323,917 vehicles whose engine oil breaks down until the bearings seize, and 318,782 whose electronic throttle body gears can break and cut drive power. A third campaign, 25V437, had already covered 443,899 Altima, Rogue and Infiniti vehicles for defective engine bearings.
Infiniti claims run under Nissan. Infiniti is Nissan's luxury division and Infiniti VINs sit inside Nissan North America's own campaigns — the QX50 and QX55 in 25V437, the QX60 in the brake caliper campaign. An Infiniti claim is a Nissan North America claim.
Then there is the CVT. Nissan's Jatco continuously variable transmissions judder, overheat and fail, and a $277.7 million class settlement extended CVT warranties on the 2014-2018 Rogue, 2015-2018 Pathfinder and 2015-2018 QX60. That settlement is closed to new claims, but it remains evidence of a known defect.
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Recall or Claim
A recall says Nissan knows. A claim says they were given the chance to fix it.
A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. It is a public admission of the fault pattern, which makes it useful evidence. What it is not is a Lemon Law claim.
The claim arises from what happened to your vehicle: the defect was reported, the dealership was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair it, and it is still there.
The VC-Turbo remedy is unusually involved — ECM reprogramming, inspection, an oil pan examination and engine replacement if needed. An engine replacement means a long time without the vehicle, and those days count toward the out-of-service threshold whether or not the repair eventually works.
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WHAT KEEPS COMING BACK.
These are the defect categories that generate the most Lemon Law and warranty claims against Nissan. A vehicle showing one of these is not automatically a claim. A vehicle showing one of these repeatedly and unrepaired usually is.
VC-Turbo Bearing Seizure
Defective bearings and heat-degraded oil seize VC-Turbo engines, causing power loss and block-breaching fires. Campaigns 25V437 and 26V080 together cover 767,816 Rogue, Altima, QX50 and QX55 vehicles.
CVT Shudder and Failure
Jatco continuously variable transmissions judder, overheat and fail outright. A $277.7 million class settlement extended CVT warranties on the 2014-2018 Rogue, 2015-2018 Pathfinder and 2015-2018 QX60.
Throttle Body Gear Breakage
Gears inside the electronic throttle body assembly can break and cut drive power without warning. Campaign 26V081 covers 318,782 model-year 2024-2025 Rogues with the 1.5-litre VC-Turbo.
Rearview Camera Blackout
The centre display shows a blank screen in reverse, breaching federal rear-visibility rules. Campaign 25V324 covers 79,755 model-year 2025 Frontier and Kicks vehicles.
Front Brake Caliper Fracture
Front brake caliper assemblies with reduced strength can break and remove front braking function entirely, in a campaign covering 2025 Murano, Pathfinder and Infiniti QX60 vehicles.
Infotainment and Electrical Faults
Freezing infotainment screens, cascading warning lights and battery or alternator faults recur across the range, generating repeat visits that rarely resolve on the first attempt.
Where It Ends Up
Four ways a Nissan claim resolves.
Which one applies depends on the state, the facts and what gets negotiated with Nissan. All four start with the same free case review.
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Recall record · NHTSA · September 2026
NISSANONE ENGINE. TWO RECALLS. ONE DAY.
01 / 2019-2024
443,899
Engine bearing failure — Altima, Rogue and Infiniti QX50 and QX55 with the 1.5L and 2.0L VC-Turbo. A bearing failure may breach the block and discharge hot oil, raising fire risk.
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02 / ROGUE, 2023-2025
323,917
Oil breaks down, engine seizes — Increased temperatures degrade the engine oil until the bearings seize. The remedy can require full engine replacement.
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03 / ROGUE, 2024-2025
318,782
Throttle body gears break — The gears in the electronic throttle body assembly may break, causing a loss of drive power.
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04 / 2025
79,755
Rearview camera blank — Frontier and Kicks. The centre information display may show a blank screen when reverse is selected.
Check My Case ↗Nissan filed campaigns 26V080 and 26V081 on 12 February 2026, covering 642,699 Rogues between them — both for the 1.5-litre VC-Turbo. Add 25V437 and the VC-Turbo total reaches 1,086,598 vehicles. Figures from NHTSA as of 23 September 2026.
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General information about Lemon Law and warranty claims, not legal advice. What applies to a particular vehicle depends on its records, its warranty and the state where it was bought.
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Against Nissan North America. Infiniti is Nissan's luxury division and Infiniti VINs sit inside Nissan's own NHTSA campaigns — the QX50 and QX55 appear in the 443,899-vehicle engine bearing recall, and the QX60 in the front brake caliper campaign. Look your VIN up under Nissan, not Infiniti.
Quite possibly. Nissan filed two campaigns on 12 February 2026 covering 642,699 Rogues between them: 323,917 vehicles where heat degrades the engine oil until the bearings seize, and 318,782 where the electronic throttle body gears can break and cut drive power. An earlier campaign, 25V437, covered 443,899 Altima, Rogue and Infiniti vehicles for defective engine bearings.
Those days count. The VC-Turbo remedy involves ECM reprogramming, inspection, an oil pan examination and engine replacement where needed, which can mean weeks out of service. Florida and New York both set the presumption at 30 or more cumulative days out of service — and the days accumulate whether or not the repair ultimately works. In Florida, written notice to the manufacturer is triggered earlier, at 15 days.
A $277.7 million settlement extended CVT warranties on the 2014-2018 Rogue, 2015-2018 Pathfinder and 2015-2018 Infiniti QX60 — from 60 months or 60,000 miles to 84 months or 84,000 for Nissan, and from 72 to 96 months for Infiniti, with reimbursement for out-of-pocket repairs. Claims closed in March 2022. It remains useful as evidence of a known defect, not as a live claim route.
Possibly. CVT shudder, overheating and outright failure are among the most persistent Nissan complaints and are generally warranty matters rather than recall matters. A recall is helpful evidence but it is not required. What is required is a substantial defect, reported inside the coverage period, a reasonable number of repair attempts, and a fault that is still there.
No. A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. A Lemon Law claim arises from what happened to your specific vehicle: a substantial defect, reported inside the coverage period, that the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair and did not. The recall is useful evidence within that claim, not a substitute for it.
Yes, where the recall remedy addressed the defect at issue and the fault persisted afterward. Owners frequently leave recall visits out of their own count because the work was free and manufacturer-initiated, which weakens the record unnecessarily. If the vehicle went in for the fault and came back with the fault, it was an attempt.
Florida's presumption generally arises after three repair attempts for the same defect, or after the vehicle has been out of service for 30 or more cumulative days during the Lemon Law rights period. A separate and earlier trigger applies at 15 cumulative days, when written notice goes to the manufacturer. It is a presumption rather than a fixed requirement — a defect serious enough to be dangerous can qualify with fewer attempts, and the presumption is one route to the remedy rather than the only one.
New York generally looks for four repair attempts for the same defect, or 30 or more days out of service, within the first two years or 18,000 miles. The framework is close to Florida's but the thresholds and the arbitration process differ, and a vehicle bought in one state and serviced in another needs the applicable law identified early.
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering faults and persistent electrical problems clearly qualify. A rattle or a trim complaint generally does not. Between those extremes the answer depends on how the fault affects the vehicle in normal use, and on what the repair orders actually say about it.
State Lemon Law is primarily directed at qualifying new and demonstrator vehicles. A used Nissan can still carry rights where a manufacturer or dealer warranty was active when the defect was reported, generally under federal warranty law including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which does not carry the same new-vehicle limitation.
A leased vehicle can be covered where it meets the same substantive requirements that apply to a purchase. The calculation of any refund is tied to the amounts actually paid into the lease rather than the full vehicle price, and the leasing company is dealt with as part of the resolution rather than left to be sorted out afterward.
That visit still counts as a repair attempt. Intermittent faults are extremely common in software, camera and electrical systems, and a growing share of manufacturer campaigns are software-related. A record of repeated visits where the fault was reported and not resolved is precisely the pattern the law addresses. Ask for the complaint to be written down in your words, and keep the copy that says it could not be verified.
Three, in practice. A repurchase, where the manufacturer buys the vehicle back and refunds what was paid, less a statutory offset for the miles driven before the first report of the defect. A replacement with a comparable vehicle. Or a cash settlement where the vehicle stays with you and the manufacturer pays for the diminished value. Which applies depends on the state, the facts and what is negotiated.
Broadly: the purchase price plus collateral and incidental charges, minus a mileage offset tied to the distance driven before the defect was first reported. Registration, taxes and finance charges are frequently recoverable. The offset is the part manufacturers most often calculate in their own favour, and it is worth checking line by line.
Other Manufacturers
The badge does not decide the claim.
The law applies the same way to every brand sold in the state. What differs is the defect pattern, the warranty terms and how hard the manufacturer fights.
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