Nissan Rogue transmission replacement cost, and the years Nissan extended

Kelley Blue Book prices a Rogue transmission replacement by model year and ZIP code, and the spread across its own pages is wide. For a 2013 Rogue in ZIP 43085, outside Columbus, Ohio, it lists $6,527 to $7,019 with parts and labor. Its 2014 page, priced for ZIP 93907 in Salinas, California, shows $4,314 to $6,864. The 2019 page lists $6,246 to $6,716 for ZIP 43085, and the 2020 page $4,429 to $6,473 for ZIP 35203 in Birmingham, Alabama. We read those on October 26, 2026 from the text search engines serve for each page; KBB fills its prices in the browser, and a direct fetch returned a placeholder ZIP and no range at all.

Owner-reported costs run lower, and those reports rarely say what kind of unit went in. CarComplaints.com’s page for 2013 Rogue transmission failure lists a typical repair cost of $2,870 at an average of 109,550 miles, from 25 owner reports, 20 of which say the fix was a replacement transmission. That is a small, self-selected sample and not a quote. We sell VIN checks, not repairs, and publish no price of our own; every figure here belongs to whoever published it.

Our corpus of federal NHTSA complaints holds 6,408 owner reports against the 2008–2022 Rogue, and POWER TRAIN, the category that captures transmission and driveline complaints, names at least 1,631 of them in the years where it ranks among the five most-reported categories. Raw counts favor years that sold more cars, so the chart below asks a different question: of everything owners reported against a given model year, what fraction was power train?

For the first-generation Rogue the answer is close to half. Across 2008–2013, POWER TRAIN accounts for 1,020 of 2,317 complaints, or 44%, and it is the single most-reported category in 5 of those six years. The 2011 Rogue peaks at 52.2%. The 2013, the last full first-generation year, holds the nameplate’s largest single-year count, 314 reports, 51.7% of its own complaints.

The second-generation 2014–2017 Rogue drops to 26% (575 of 2,185). From 2018 through 2021, POWER TRAIN falls below each year’s fifth-ranked category, so our data cannot give an exact count; for 2018 that caps it at 9.8% of the year at most. It returns in 2022 at fifth place, 36 reports and 13.6% of the year. Complaints are unverified owner reports, not a failure rate, and a newer car has had less time to collect them.

The settlement behind the extension is covered in our Rogue transmission fluid post, so here is only what matters for a replacement bill. Nissan’s own dealer bulletin, dated August 30, 2022 and filed with NHTSA, lists the vehicles whose CVT coverage went from 60 months/60,000 miles to 84 months/84,000 miles, whichever comes first, from June 1, 2022:

The extension covered more than the case: the bulletin names the CVT assembly and its internals, the control valve body, the torque converter, the cooler kit where fitted, and reprogramming of the transmission control module. Owners who had already paid could claim reimbursement, capped at $5,000 for work at a non-Nissan shop, but the class notice set the claim deadline at March 22, 2022 or 30 days after the repair, whichever came later.

Lay that table over the chart and one row stands out. The 2013 Rogue has more power-train complaints than any other year on record and sits outside the extension. The 2015 Rogue Select, the same first-generation S35 body sold alongside the new Rogue, is inside it, and Transend’s catalog lists RE0F10A/JF011E units for Rogue applications running through 2015, the S35 family the 2013 car also uses. A legal settlement is not a readout of a complaint database, and a 2013 owner has no claim the bulletin missed. It does mean the 2013 owner, the one most likely to need this repair, was always going to pay for it.

The 84 months run from the date the car was first sold or leased, not from 2022. A 2018 Rogue sold new in 2018 reached 84 months during 2025, and a 2014 reached it years earlier. Practically every extended Rogue is now outside it on time alone, whatever its mileage. Nissan told dealers to verify coverage on each VIN, partly because some owners opted out of the settlement and lost the extension, so a service desk can settle it in minutes.

The cars with factory coverage left are the newest ones. Nissan’s bulletins give the CVT’s original term as 60 months/60,000 miles; if your warranty booklet shows the same, a 2021 or 2022 Rogue first sold in late 2021 or during 2022 may still be inside it at under 60,000 miles. On those cars the first call is the dealer, not a transmission shop.

A quote for “a Rogue CVT” is only useful if it names the right transmission. Transend, a remanufactured-transmission distributor whose catalog we opened directly, lists two families for the Rogue and the smaller Rogue Sport:

Within a family, Transend still lists separate part numbers by model year span, trim and front- or all-wheel drive, so a used unit that “fits a 2016 Rogue” may not fit yours. The Rogue Sport, sold elsewhere as the Qashqai, is a separate model in NHTSA’s records, absent from our Rogue counts and from Nissan’s 2022 extension list.

The 2021 redesign changed the transmission story again. Press coverage of the 2021 launch, including Auto123’s, describes the 2.5-liter Rogue’s CVT as carried over with revised tuning to cut friction. For the 2022 model year Nissan’s own release introduced the 1.5-liter VC-Turbo engine with a new-generation Xtronic CVT, quoting 17 percent wider ratio coverage, 32 percent lower friction and a twin oil pump system. Transend’s CVT catalog lists no 2020-or-newer Rogue unit, so for those years expect the dealer to be the main source.

Nissan’s own bulletins do not treat every CVT complaint as a full replacement, and two of them spell out the decision for specific Rogues.

• 2008-2010 Rogue without the tow package, power cut by CVT fluid-temperature protection (NTB14-002): the dealer reads a CVT-A counter; at 24 or more the CVT assembly is replaced, below 24 only the control valve, and an added CVT fluid cooler kit goes on either way
• 2014-2016 Rogue with judder (NTB15-084): code P17F0 means a new CVT assembly; code P17F1 means the valve body comes off, the belt is inspected with a borescope, and a good belt gets a valve body instead of a transmission
• Either path on the 2014-2016 car requires a CVT cooler flush afterward, per the same bulletin
• 2021 Rogue with shift-error code P0780 (NTB21-023): the bulletin's action is to check the TCM part number and reprogram it if applicable

The first-generation bulletin also lists causes to rule out before any of this: overfilled fluid, the wrong fluid and a coolant mix stronger than 50 percent can all trigger the same reduced-power fail-safe (NTB12-057). Nissan also ran a voluntary emission service campaign that reprogrammed the engine, transmission and shift control modules on 573 specific 2021 Rogues, with a “CVT malfunction” light among the listed symptoms. A software update is cheap; a transmission is not. Ask which one the diagnosis supports.

• New from Nissan, installed by a dealer: the top of KBB's ranges; Nissan's own settlement FAQ says its technicians may use a new or remanufactured assembly
• Remanufactured from an independent rebuilder: Transend lists a standard 18-month/18,000-mile warranty with optional 36-month upgrades
• Used from a salvage yard: the lowest parts price and the least information about the donor car
• Sub-assembly repair: a valve body or belt-and-pulley kit, when the diagnosis supports it

On a first-generation car, a used JF011E comes out of a Rogue from the same high-complaint years as the one that failed. A remanufactured unit costs more and comes with a written warranty. Ask any rebuilder about a refundable core charge, which can make the listed price and the final bill differ.

Nissan’s extension bulletin names the parts it treated as one repair: the CVT or valve body, the torque converter, the cooler kit where fitted, and TCM reprogramming. Nissan also publishes a dealer bulletin, NTB12-103, titled “CVT/TCM calibration data ‘write’ procedure,” last revised in June 2024. A quote that prices the unit and labor but skips those lines is quoting a different job.

• Programming of the transmission control module after the swap, and whether the shop can do it
• Cooler flush or cooler kit, since debris from a failed CVT stays in the cooler
• Nissan's specified CVT fluid for that unit
• Core charge, freight and any surcharge on a remanufactured unit
• Warranty on the installed job, in months and miles, and who honors it if you move

KBB’s ranges sit between roughly $4,300 and $7,000. On a 2008–2013 Rogue, that can be more than the car is worth running. Look up the market value for your trim and mileage first; our car value by VIN page walks through the free ways to do that. That value is the other half of the decision.

A replacement with a written warranty makes the car easier to keep and to sell. A valve-body diagnosis can cut the bill well below a full unit. A car with a failed CVT sells at a steep discount, so selling only wins when the repair costs more than that discount. The newer and cleaner the rest of the car, the more value a replacement protects; on a high-mileage first-generation Rogue the same bill buys back less.

• Decode the VIN to confirm model year, engine and drive, which decides the CVT family
• Ask a Nissan dealer for the in-service date and any remaining CVT coverage on that VIN
• Get the stored trouble codes and the diagnosis in writing: software, valve body, or full unit
• Compare quotes on the same scope, with programming and cooler work listed
• Pull open recalls; on a 2021-2022 Rogue, check engine campaign 25V437000 before blaming the transmission

That last point matters on the newest cars. ENGINE is the most-reported category for the 2022Rogue in our data, and NHTSA campaign 25V437000 covers engine-bearing defects on certain 2021–2024 Rogues with the VC-Turbo engine. A Nissan recall check settles whether it applies before anyone prices a transmission. A Nissan VIN decode and a transmission lookup by VIN confirm what is in the car, and the Nissan warranty check by VIN explains how to confirm coverage.

The record and the bulletins point the same way. A 2008–2013 Rogue carries the heaviest power-train share and was never extended; a documented CVT replacement on one is a selling point, not a red flag. A 2014–2018 car had its extension, which has now run out, so ask for paperwork on any work done under it. Read which Rogue model years draw the most complaints overall too, since the 2018–2019 cars trade transmission complaints for brake and collision-avoidance ones. For comparison, our Pathfinder transmission replacement post covers the other nameplate in the same extension, and the Sentra version covers a car where the extensions and the complaints line up almost exactly.