I’m driving a rental Nissan Rogue. It has multiple display options for the screen above the steering wheel (between tach and speedo,) none of which are ACTUAL VEHICLE SPEED. It has 2 options for AVERAGE speed (WTF?) but no digital display of actual speed. I dicked around with the settings for 10 minutes this morning and couldn’t figure it out. Google isn’t helping either.
Yes, the needle works, but I’m farsighted & annoyed.
I’d like to put $10 on a the Rogue.
We have a truck like that at work. I got it to display the speed once then I changed the radio station and it was gone forever.
In reply to poopshovel again :
No speedometer ?
iceracer said:In reply to poopshovel again :
No speedometer ?
poopshovel again said:Yes, the needle works, but I’m farsighted & annoyed.
Use your phone to display GPS calculated MPH? Screw the rogue.
RossD said:Use your phone to display GPS calculated MPH? Screw the rogue.
Going rogue on the Rogue, I like it!
If you can seriously display, in big numbers, “AVERAGE vehicle speed “A” and “B” but not ACTUAL speed, I’m officially branding this thing a berkeleying piece of E36 M3.
When I get pissed off at a rental Nissan CUV I return it with a live alligator in the hatch. You'll thank me later.
In reply to captdownshift :
Alligators don’t deserve that.
poopshovel again said:If you can seriously display, in big numbers, “AVERAGE vehicle speed “A” and “B” but not ACTUAL speed, I’m officially branding this thing a berkeleying piece of E36 M3.
I mean, it's a Nissan Rogue. It's already known to be a berkeleying piece of E36 M3. Does it have a "Distance to CVT explosion" display?
I've never had a vehicle with a digital speed display, is that a thing that all cars have now?
NickD said:I mean, it's a Nissan Rogue. It's already known to be a berkeleying piece of E36 M3. Does it have a "Distance to CVT explosion" display?
We have a 2016 Rogue. My wife bought it (against my advice) when she was just my girlfriend because it was "cute", and I had no say. I'll say, its not an awful vehicle, but its nowhere near a great vehicle though. Supposedly they redesigned the CVT in 2014, so they're decently reliable. We have 60k on ours and it seems to be doing fine (fingers crossed). We get great mileage (29.1mpg lifetime average) and the seats are comfortable. The top two most annoying things about it are:
-Fake gear changes at 90-100% throttle. It just goes "waaaaaaahhhhhooooooohhhhhaaaaaahhhhooooooohhhaaaaaaahh" when you get on it. I would much rather that it jump to redline and stay there with a simple "waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh". Lets be honest though, its my wife's Nissan Rogue. I'm not doing much WOTing anyways.
-The swaybar stiffness to spring stiffness ratio is way too high. It corners really flat for a CUV, and the ride is decent over two wheel bumps, but you get that annoying side to side head-toss over uneven roads, or potholed gravel roads. I'd gladly trade some body roll for less head toss.
Anyways, we're going to keep ours for a while. The wife signed us up for a 72 month loan after all, so we're basically stuck with it. While it doesn't have a sweet digital speedometer, I can think of much worse vehicles than a Rogue to be stuck with.
poopshovel again said:
I’m farsighted
move the seat further back?
but in all seriousness what do you do in other vehicles that dont have a change-able display? back in my day....
NickD said:poopshovel again said:If you can seriously display, in big numbers, “AVERAGE vehicle speed “A” and “B” but not ACTUAL speed, I’m officially branding this thing a berkeleying piece of E36 M3.
I mean, it's a Nissan Rogue. It's already known to be a berkeleying piece of E36 M3. Does it have a "Distance to CVT explosion" display?
My buddy the Nissan tech has the CVT swap down to under an hour. I don't know whether to be impressed by his work effort or the amount of practice he's had at the dealership.
This is my life with any rental car I deal with. Get in it, quickly realize that the time required to figure out the display / infotainment system / pair your phone / etc. is longer than the amount of driving I have to do, turn off radio, ignore the rest, proceed to destination.
I’ve had pretty good success at using the stuff flying past me to judge speed. 28 years without a speeding ticket.
But new cars are annoying. New technology is annoying. Sure I’m in awe of it at the same time but give a high-tech phone and a low-tech car and I’ll be happy.
I've had a few cars that can calculate an average speed. Who the heck even uses that and what the heck do they use it for?
Maybe a long road trip? But then, I usually have both a clock and a good idea of how far I have to go so...
In reply to Robbie :
Because, based on my experience with current university students, no-one under the age of 30 could do the math to calculate the average...
In reply to poopshovel again :
Is this a trick question? 
edizzle89 said:poopshovel again said:
I’m farsighted
move the seat further back?
but in all seriousness what do you do in other vehicles that dont have a change-able display? back in my day....
Cute. My point is that if you’re going to have 14,000 options for what’s displayed on that screen (tire pressures, a little picture of your “safety circle,” what berkeleying radio station you’re on, etc etc etc,) maybe ONE of those things could be the berkeleying speed you’re going. But what the berkeley do I know? I don’t build a bag of E36 M3 no one wants to buy.
*Actually, my point was, if someone knows what button to push, I’d appreciate your help. But here we are.
Robbie said:I've had a few cars that can calculate an average speed. Who the heck even uses that and what the heck do they use it for?
TSD rallying is apparently WAY more popular than I realized.
“Another display between the gauges is used to control various vehicle functions but curiously, no digital speedometer was available—the only feature I’d expect to be of much use there. Instead, Nissan chose to put a compass, tire pressure monitor, duplicate radio information and a vehicle settings menu.”
“Am I just lacking in imagination? Have people been clambering for years for average speed and complaining about the current instantaneous speed? I think only the most hard core stats nerd could possibly care about average speed. And two of them?
I find it inconceivable that they wouldn't provide a simple digital speedometer.”
Now this is ME here: Isn’t the signal to the “analog” speedometer actually a digital signal CONVERTED to be an analog? Dumb.
In reply to ebonyandivory :
I suppose that’s a nice way of saying “this piece of E36 M3’s all ‘tarded.”
Thanks for answering my question!
Since we aren't actually answering the question, heres my observation:
In my area, 90% of all nissans have body damage, at least 1 missing hubcap, and are driven in a manner that screams "inbred, neck tattooed, mouthbrrather ".
My sister in law owns a base model versa and loves it. Shes had it 3 years, put 2 transmissions in, and still owes more than everything in my driveway combined.
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
I actually answered the question. It’s not available with a speedometer in that location.
I saw that.
As well as the conversation about average speed display (pointless in my opinion), etc.
My 12 impala company car has the info screen of everything but current speed. I honestly thought it was just gm being stupid.
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