NHTSA Complaint #11288474 — 2015 NISSAN ROGUE

4 PASSENGERS IN OUR AWD ROUGE (2015), WITH A PANORAMIC SUNROOF, WERE DRIVING ON 1-85 FROM LAS VEGAS, NV BACK TO SALT LAKE CITY, UT ON 12/08/2019, IN THE COUNTY OF BEAVER ABOUT 30 MILES FROM FILLMORE, UT, AT ABOUT 75 MPH (80 MPH INTERSTATE SPEED ZONE), WHEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN, WE HEAR A LOUD CRASHING SOUND. THERE WERE NO VEHICLES AROUND US ON THE ROAD, SO WE WERE ALL EXTREMELY TERRIFIED. THE CAR HAD BECOME VERY LOUD AT THAT POINT, AND WE IMMEDIATELY PULLED OVER TO SIDE OF THE ROAD. WE FOUND THAT THE PANORAMIC SUNROOF HAD COMBUSTED, LITERALLY SPONTANEOUSLY. IT WAS COMPLETELY WRECKED AND FOR NO REASON AT ALL. WE TOOK IT TO A SMALL SERVICE STATION AS SOON AS WE COULD, BUT WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF SMALL TOWNS WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ALL THEY WERE ABLE TO DO WAS ALLOW US TO VACUUM UP THE GLASS. A FEW OF US HAD CUTS ON OUR BODIES, SO WE BANDAGED THOSE UP WHILE THERE AS WELL. WE CALLED INSURANCE, THERE WERE NO OTHER CARS INVOLVED FORTUNATELY, AS THERE WERE NO OTHER VEHICLES CLOSELY AROUND US WHEN IT EXPLODED. THE INSURANCE COMPANY SAID WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY A $1,000 DEDUCTIBLE FOR THE INCIDENT TO BE REPAIRED. OBVIOUSLY, THIS WAS CONCERNING BECAUSE THIS WAS NOTHING OF OUR DOING. THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE POOR DESIGN OF THE SUNROOF, AND HAS HAPPENED TO OTHERS AS WELL. NISSAN SHOULD PAY FOR THE DAMAGE, AND IN FACT, SHOULD RE-CALL ALL VEHICLES WITH SUNROOFS TO INSTALL A BETTER DESIGNED SUNROOF WITH APPROPRIATE GLASS. HAD WE HAD OUR SOFT TOP INSIDE OPEN, THERE IS NO TELLING WHAT WOULD OR COULD HAVE HAPPENED AS WE WERE DRIVING AT AN INTERSTATE SPEED. AFTER REVIEWING THE OTHER STORIES OF THIS HAPPENING, THIS NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED IMMEDIATELY FOR THE SAFETY OF DRIVERS WITH SUNROOFS WITH THIS DESIGN BEFORE SOMETHING FATAL HAPPENS. I WILL BE JOINING THE CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT ALREADY OPEN ON THIS EXACT SCENARIO THAT HAS HAPPENED TO SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE.