Nissan Rogue Forum

I have had an intermittent rattling noise at start up 6 months into buying my Rogue. I took it in when the noise was steady and the dealership changed the upper exh shield. When the noise came back a few months later, I took it in again and they replaced the heat shield to the catalast converter. The car only had a little over 7,000 on it by then. I have been dealing with this for over a year and have taken the car in 5 times about the same noise. I finally went to the owner and he hooked me up with the district manager of Nissan. I took the car in and left it almost 3 days (going to the dealer before/after work and on my lunch hour) to turn the car over while the the DM was there along with the Service Manager and technician. Of course it never made the noise. It did make a tiny noise (I could live with that) but it didn't make that louder noise I kept complaining about. After I had the car for a almost a week, the DM came to my work with a technician and an audio recorder, and it FINALLY made the noise I kept telling them about. I have been told it is probably the sprocket. It makes noise because the engine oil hasn't lubricated it yet and this is normal. If the sprocket needs to be fed engine oil to lubricate it, than why is it not happening more time than not when I turn the engine over? It is an intermittent noise which concerns me. My Rogue is still under warranty but I am worried that something will happen once it is out of warranty. This issue is far from over. I told the DM that this "normal" noise getting louder was not disclosed to me when I first bought the car otherwise I would have shopped elsewhere. And shame on Nissan for allowing this to be a "normal" standard. We all work way too hard to earn our paychecks to be willing to "put up" with noise from a new vehicle. Thoughts? Please feel free to email me at mannjana@aol.com Please put "ROGUE" in the subject line. Thank you!