2011 Nissan Rogue: doors won't lock, open or latch

Filed Jul 22, 2026 · Body · 70,000 miles · OR

The contact owns a 2011 Nissan Rogue. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the front driver's side exterior door handle detached and fell off the vehicle. Additionally, the front passenger's side exterior door handle fractured, and half of the door handle fell off the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and was diagnosed with a failed front driver's and front passenger's side door actuators. The contact was informed that the front driver's and front passenger's side door actuators needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired; however, the failure reoccurred. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the rear passenger's side exterior door handle fractured and detached. The vehicle was not repaired. The dealer was made aware of the failure. The contact was informed that the failure was a known failure with similar vehicles. The vehicle was scheduled for an inspection in several days. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The contact referenced an unknown recall; however, the VIN was not associated with a recall related to the failure. The contact stated that the damage had occurred during normal operational and was not the result of excessive pressure or force. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, and a case was filed. The failure mileage was approximately 70,000.

Filed Jan 18, 2018 · 52,188 miles · PA

Drive side door won't open from inside or outside in really cold weather. Seen there was recalls on this on other years but not a 2011. This has happened to me for the third year now.

Filed Dec 14, 2017 · Airbags, Electrical · CT

The air bag light remains on .. The driver side door lock actuator actuator keeps buzzing

Filed Aug 25, 2017 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 119,000 miles · CA

My car would not start up. All gauges were fluttering and flickering, door locks were locking and unlocking rapidly, then the car went dead. Gave it jump and it started. Next day it died again, gave it a jump and it started. While I was driving it shut off suddenly and completely, giving me no time to steer. The car was dead again. Replaced the battery and problem still exists. Very dangerous to be driving and have the car just stop completely. I'm lucky I wasn't hit.

Filed Jun 8, 2017 · Transmission · 109,000 miles · AZ

We purchased a 2011 nissan rogue at the end of 2010, and it was a good car in the beginning, however, I started to notice small things here and there that weren't that great. But they would come and go. Then one day I opened the left rear door handle, and it broke off!! It looked like a cheap piece of plastic you see at the dollar store. I took it to nissan and they wanted $550!!! Ridiculous! I found a good honest mechanic place and they even reduced the cost since it only took them 15 mins to replace it! Only costed me $80! So now and again it has also been losing rpms and having difficulty speeding up. My husband was driving from work and on the freeway, and the rpms stopped at 4000 and froze. I wouldn't go over 60mph! He was scared and pulled over to the side of the road. He checked the oil (it was perfect), the inside and saw nothing. He said he smelt a fire type smell while in the inside of the car, but no fires. He slowly got over and pulled off of the freeway and into a car place to have it looked at. I called nissan as the technician stated that there was a recall on the nisan rogue. I called nissan and they stated that it was the 2010 rogue. Mine is the 2011 rogue which was purchased at the end of 2010. So I am suppose to believe that they somehow put a better CVT transmission in my rogue which is not that far off from the 2010 that has an extended warranty and recall on it?? Hardly, I have seen many many other complaints from people about this vehicle and exact year. I've even called about our rogue a few times when I've heard about recalls, but they've always told me it's only 2010 and my car should be fine. Obviously it's not fine, and the car is crap. Nissan should stand by their products , and they are not . They will continue to lose good customers that are hard working americans who pay their bills.

Filed Nov 8, 2016 · Electrical · 50,000 miles · MN

Door locks throughout the vehicle do not lock/unlock as they should automatically (driver side door and both back passenger doors). Have to manually lock/unlock. In case of an emergency of an accident/fire etc., the doors wouldn't unlock in order to get infants, toddlers and young children out of the vehicle in a hurry. If I were being followed/stalked, I wouldn't be able to lock all my doors for my own safety. Belongings in my vehicle are at risk. Please issue a recall to get this safety issue resolved as soon as possible. Just look at the lock problems on all forums on the internet with various nissan models. Estimate of $500 per door to fix each actuator is insane. I do not have over $2,000 to fix something that should be recalled and fixed by nissan. At first, I wasn't sure what was going on. After leaving/locking the vehicle and then returning, one of my passengers would pull on their door or I'd pull on the door handle on the driver side and my alarm would go off. I had locked/alarmed the car when existing but the doors were not actually locked so when you returned to the vehicle and pulled on door handle you were able to open the door (due to lack of lock actually locking) which caused the alarm to sound. Paying closer attention to see if in fact the locks were locking/unlocking which they were not. When I arrive at destinations, turn the vehicle off, the doors remain locked and I manually have to unlock before I can exit the vehicle is another incident in which I realized there was a problem.