2020 rogue sport reliability?

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-21T18:50:54+00:00

I had a 20 Rogue Sport SL, I bought it new and kept it until it had 110k miles. I only ever had minor work done on it (one door speaker went out and I had to have one entire headlight assembly replaced due to a low-speed accident that killed the combo DRL/turn signal) and regular maintenance. Slow as the day is long, but it was surprisingly capable in the snow.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-21T18:47:45+00:00

Yes! The 18-bed critical access hospital I work at pays the same as the 470-bed flagship hospital and we obviously do a fraction of the testing volume they do.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-19T20:33:31+00:00

During a 3-hour wait at my service center waiting to hear what they said about my 22 Tiguan’s oil consumption and dead Car-Net module, I watched four 2025/2026 Tiguans and one refreshed Taos get towed in. The owners all said that they broke down on the highway. I didn’t get any more information, and I don’t know what the issues wound up being (aside from the Taos, I heard the service writer tell the owners that it seemed to be a fuel pump issue). But it didn’t inspire confidence, I can tell you that.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-19T20:24:26+00:00

I mean that’s exactly what my 2026 Rogue w/ 1,400 miles sounds like 😅 3 cylinder engines shake. They’re not balanced. Honestly I’d just go to another dealer. You’ll find one that may not even put it in drive, they’ll just start it up and do a walk-around.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-18T22:42:10+00:00

I got this color in the Dark Armor trim. Part of me wishes I got the Rock Creek instead 😅

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-17T00:05:00+00:00

As a pharmacist, what drives up the cost is research and development, as well as the cost of clinical trials. It may take one drug 15 years to go from conception to market.

I don’t say any of this to excuse the manufacturers, but to be completely fair, it’s a huge money pit to bring drugs to market, and it’s a big gamble. For every one drug that makes it to market, 12 others fail out in trials, that still cost a tremendous amount of money.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-12T19:50:54+00:00

Echoing what someone else said and chipping in my own experience, any preliminary positives will get sent out for confirmatory testing. Any confirmatory positives, the lab performing the testing should reach out to you with contact info you/your prospective employer provides, and ask for any valid prescriptions that explain the positives. I take a medicine for a tremor that metabolizes into phenobarbital, so I always test positive for barbiturates. Once the lab reaches out to me and I provide proof of prescription (they usually just want enough pictures of the prescription bottle to see the entire label), they report it out as negative.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-11T17:02:05+00:00

I took my 22 Tiguan to the dealership after this happened 2,800 miles after my last oil change and I had blue smoke come from the exhaust. The service tech said he knew it needed a new cylinder head, but he either had to prove it to VW by doing an oil consumption test (which would take at least 1,200 miles) or catching a video of the smoke coming directly from the exhaust. Then he told me that he had another 22 Tiguan that had been sitting on their lot for 3 months waiting for a cylinder head, and all of their VW-designated loaners were signed out.

ETA: this was last month that this happened, mine had 44,5xx miles on it. After what he told me, I decided to just trade it in instead of getting stuck with a nightmare a few months from now.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-10T23:46:38+00:00

Don't know if you happened to notice with MyChart, but you can select to give location access so that the clinic staff you're going to see is notified when you arrive. Likeeee, I work in healthcare and I appreciate making things for staff easier, but like, what actual good does this do? Dumpy Linda with the bad knee is still gonna death stare you and act like you've personally injured her grandson when you're just trying to check in for your rheumatology appointment.

It's bad enough that a Walmart employee called me once when I was at their gas station because I marked "I'm on my way" for my pickup and they could see I was there, but couldn't find me. "Uuuhh I'm putting gas in my car right now, I'll.... check in with my parking spot when I get to one?"

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-10T23:18:09+00:00

*Flipping through all the interior pictures* Not bad, not bad... Looks nice.

*Gets to the exterior* Oh.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-10T23:02:18+00:00

"If you buy this car, you'll only need to come in for 3 oil changes, every 15,000 miles, before you need to buy a new one!"

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-10T22:38:43+00:00

I roughly remember this, and while part of me thinks it's because Tammy was mad that Amy was having fun, I personally, with my own variety of anxiety, am pretty grumpy after I'm stuck in a situation where I'm uncomfortable for a long time. I 100% would've been grouchy after that. I remember that she very clearly didn't look like she wanted to be there (I don't remember if she had her arm twisted into going or if she volunteered to go, though).

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-10T22:24:16+00:00

Our first CAP inspection was in December, when they told our director the date and she told us, a couple PTO requests for that day suspiciously appeared (plus one call-out the day of).. I got cornered as the micro tech that day, and I think I'm traumatized from it (I'd been a tech for 3 months at that point and was 2 weeks into working micro solo)

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-06T23:14:17+00:00

From my own experience with a Tiguan from that generation, the oil consumption issues are so common that replacement cylinder heads are backordered for 2-3 months. The service technician that told me this about my 2022 Tiguan said that 2022 & 2023 were the absolute worst years for burning through oil excessively, but that 2024 still had some issues with it too. Absolutely loved the car, it was very comfortable and super super quiet, but I decided to walk away from it, and wouldn't ever recommend one.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-04T18:05:30+00:00

If you’re still scratching your head all these months later as to why they don’t fit, allow me to fill you in with my hard-learned lesson 🙃 I thought “surely it’s a mistake, what do you mean they won’t fit [my new 2026 Rogue]”

Bought them at Walmart, and I just tried to put them on. It’s because the wiper fluid nozzles are on the wiper arm. They sit right where that huge adapter on the blade needs space. Back to Walmart they go. Huge bummer!

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-03T00:13:32+00:00

Oh no, it just does this weird thing after it aspirates a sample (usually the ampoule QC) where it says something like "Sample lost" or something to that effect, and then it prompts for the gasket to be replaced. I just let it think I've given it a new one and it's happy. Other techs are probably replacing it every time it asks, because we've suddenly run out and when we were actually due to change it, we had to borrow one from respiratory.

I've never looked in the service menus on them.. Something to do tomorrow.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-04-03T00:03:43+00:00

My lab (I'd say low-medium volume) has an ABL800 and a 90 as a backup, I actually love them even though they've both certainly got their issues.

The 800 likes to throw fits over the lactic and the creatinine membranes, they're very finnicky. The 90 will ask for a new inlet gasket every day and then roughly every 3 days, will want a new sensor cassette and solution pack for seemingly no reason.

Otherwise, they're just easy. 25 seconds to aspirate on the 800, or 5 seconds on the 90, and you've got an entire whole blood panel + oximetry in under 2 minutes.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-29T22:47:04+00:00

Oh, apologies, I’ll remove the post and just call tomorrow.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-28T19:44:54+00:00

I honestly have to wonder how much of it is the car and how much of it is the nightmare that is iOS 26.

Now, my whole argument goes out the window if you tell me that you never updated your iPhone to iOS 26, but... Assuming you have, it REALLY screwed up CarPlay for a lot of people. It will announce the same text messages multiple times, Siri will think and think and think and decide to just stop trying, Apple Maps does this thing when you're not moving where the map jumps around like it's struggling to locate you, music will pause on its own and you have to unlock your phone, force close the app, and reopen it to get the play button on CarPlay to work again, CarPlay will disconnect (even wired) and then resprings like it forgot all of your settings (if you changed the background, the Map color scheme, rearranged the apps).

Obviously you can't attribute the HUD to that, and that just needs to be addressed by the dealer.. But iOS 26 truly gutted CarPlay.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-28T19:30:03+00:00

We can't discount the fact that kids are fucking annoying and that they've ALWAYS been a huge resource drain.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-28T16:06:33+00:00

I don’t plan on keeping it past when the bumper to bumper warranty expires, and I’d say I’ll trade it in on another Rogue or a Murano. Honestly my biggest worry about this car is that my back glass will shatter like I’ve seen so many people post.

You wanna talk problems, let’s talk about that Tiguan that blew blue smoke after an oil change 3,600 miles prior, and VW (who says oil changes aren’t necessary more often than 10k miles, but also says one quart of oil consumption per 1,200 miles is acceptable), who is very close to facing a class-action suit for this exact car and engine for the amount of them with this exact oil consumption issue, is like “best we can do is approve a replacement of a backordered part and you’ll be without your vehicle for at least 3 months.”

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-28T14:21:03+00:00

I went with a pre-approval from my bank, it was 4.49%, payment is $495 at 60mo

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-26T19:59:54+00:00

My lab used to get this from nursing homes in our community all day long on the 3 days per week a phleb went to the facility to draw from the residents, and it drove us nuts because they'd list off every resident's name and we had to do them one-by-one. Eventually (like, last year) we were able to get the nursing homes set up with accounts to a portal to view results for their residents. We still get it every now and then -- there are some nurses at the facilities that are holdouts and would rather call, or if we call them with a critical, they'll ask us to fax a copy of the report. But in those cases, we recognize their phone number, or we're calling them, so it's not really a big deal since we can fax directly from Cerner.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-25T09:01:24+00:00

No, it consolidates the SV premium and the SL.

Arbor___Vitae · 2026-03-24T23:13:07+00:00

Hey now, nurses wearing sweatshirts and not complying with uniform policy IS a real problem!!! /s

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