I came out of work to find my back windshield completely spider cracked with no apparent physical damage
Nissan Rogue windshield crack problems
16 of the 7,444 owner complaints about the Nissan Rogue describe windshield cracks, most of them for the 2013 model year.
- owner complaints
- 16
- worst model year
- 2013
- typical mileage
- 28,000
By model year
- 20253
- 20241
- 20233
- 20213
- 20161
- 20151
- 20134
Often reported together
Wipers 1Power steering loss 1Lane assist 1No deployment 1Adaptive cruise 1
What owners say
The contact owns a 2023 Nissan Rogue. While entering the vehicle, the contact became aware that the rear windshield glass was cracked. The corners of the glass were intact, but there was a circular hole in the center of the glass. The vehicle was not taken to be repaired. The contact believed that the failure was due to the rear windshield glass being defective. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 30,000.
While nissan Rogue 2025 was sitting in my driveway with car running and loading my car to leave for work on 11/27/25 , the rear windshield spontaneously crackled and shattered from one corner to the other after closing a side door . Glass was everyplace in my vehicle my driveway and down into the rear hatch frame. Nissan dealership and nissan corporate took no responsibility for the defect , called all multiple times and went to dealership and the repair area. I had to put it through my auto insurance. Glass was on back order took close to two weeks to repair. I now hear glass shards sliding around in my rear hatch door and yesterday the lock wouldn't open properly for multiple attempts , finally opened. I hear people are having issue with the glass shards interfering with the locking mechanism now. Nissan must own up to this defect. Car was only 5 months old.
As I was driving down the road, I heard a loud noise and the back windshield spontaneously cracked into tiny little pieces all throughout the entire back windshield. I parked and when I closed my door chunks of the back windshield fell off as well.
On Thursday November 13th, 2025, I drove to work like I do every day. When I got to work and parked, the REAR windshield cracked all on its own. It was not freezing, nor were there any large temperature swings to cause this. Today (Wed Nov 19th, 2025) the Safelite repair man came to replace it. He stated that he sees this quite often with the Nissan Rogue. I called Nissan and they said that they never have heard of this (as i would expect them to say). I would like this investigated as there was nothing done to cause this - no rocks, etc.
It was a cold morning and we defrosted our windows before leaving the house. We had been driving for about 2 hrs. We stopped and while in the car sitting with it parked, idling and with the heat on, there was a loud explosion sound and the back windshield blew out on its own on the passenger side! It flew outward behind the vehicle. It was like pressure came from within the vehicle and pushed it out? The whole back windshield started crackling for a long time and bubbling. This was very Scary when it happened! If someone or another vehicle was behind ours this could of been very dangerous or even worse if we were driving at the time and it caused an accident! I googled Rogue rear window exploding on its own and this has happened to others!!
While driving one day in November 2024, the master warning light and the automatic emergency braking system off warning light came on. With 2 malfunction warnings: “Not available system malfunction with the Lane Departure warning symbol” and “AEB malfunction”. If you try to use cruise control a loud siren is alerted since these 2 malfunctions are happening. Took it to the Nissan dealership where I bought it and was told there was a lane camera with an open circuit and to replace it when my windshield crack since it was close to $2,000.
Windshield Durability... Purchased 11/22 *Cracked 3/23 Replaced 1/24 *Cracked 3/24 *The replacement window arrived cracked. Another replacement window was ordered. Replaced 10/14 *Cracked 1/25 Replacement... TBD I have never replaced a windshield on my previous Nissan Rogues (2014 or 2018 models) before. What is happening with the quality control of materials or the windshield design? included some of the text messages and images of previous damages. FORMAT would not allow an upload as pdf or JPEG, all under the required size limit. ??
Windshield can not withstand any impact without cracking. This is 1 of 3 cracks. After this crack had windshield replaced with another factory windshield 2 more cracks after this one.
I recently filled up my windshield wiper fluid tank to the max. As I was driving, my visibility was impaired by dirt/dust. I activated my wipers to clean the front windshield and nothing came out. I had to pull over on the highway because I had difficulty seeing. When I opened the front hood to check my fluid level, it was empty. I used a bottle of water to clean the front windshield. I purchased another bottle and when I was filling up the wiper fluid tank, it started to come out of the bottom of the vehicle. I took it to the dealership and was told that it was cracked and needed to be replaced. They said I must have hit something on the road. The problem with that is there is no other visible damage underneath the vehicle. A mechanic told me that he has been seeing numerous Rogues coming in with the same problem: cracked windshield wiper fluid reservoirs.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Nissan Rogue windshield crack
Which Nissan Rogue years have windshield cracks problems?
The model years with the most reports are 2013 (4 complaints), 2021 (3 complaints) and 2023 (3 complaints).
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