Nissan Rogue Forum

As a retired engineer, Rogue owner, and incorrigible tinkerer, this website sounds like home to me. I was hoping to see an answer to Ericmacau’s query re accessing the oil filter. However, I just changed the oil and filter and answered my own question. I have a 3/8 drive end cap wrench to fit the Rogue’s filter, and with that, this vehicle proved to be second only to my 1992 Camry 4 cyl. in ease of changing oil and filter. For other reader’s info, there is a dust shield behind the right front wheel, retained by plastic clips. Take out 5 of the clips by popping up the heads with a small screwdriver and removing the clips. This allows the dust shield to be pushed out of the way of the filter, giving easy access. No, there’s no need to remove the road wheel. Re oil change intervals, for the last 35 years or so, I have been changing oil every 5000 miles, and I expect to continue this practice with the Rogue. I usually change the first time at around 2500 miles.

I've added a photo of my Rogue with kayak secured to a Yakima rack. The CVT was a big reason I picked Rogue. I got the paddle shifters and almost didn’t realize I could also downshift the tranny via the stick. An observation is that if you use the left paddle to downshift for hill retard, then as you reach the bottom of the hill you shift up with the right paddle, soon this super smart tranny goes back into drive. Perhaps my only disappointment with this vehicle is that the info display between the tach and speedometer is small and hard to read without losing sight of the road.