2014 Nissan Rogue: Sunroof Tilt Caveat
May 22, 2014
Let it be identified right away that I am no fan of sunroofs. I’;ll spare you the rant.
Our long-term 2014 Nissan Rogue has a sunroof. A huge panoramic job. And what do you know, it can tilt. Nonetheless, there’;s a caveat to its tilting function.
The tilting of a sunroof supplies one of the vanishingly few functions of such contraptions, that of ventilating a hot cabin of, erm, fouls smells and stiflingly hot air. Hot air is caused by (amongst other factors, some will argue) the sun. The sun, it turns out, is a giant firewall of nuclear fusion looming large over our heads.
In the pursuit of ridding an automobile cabin of hot air whether or not parked or in motion, it would behoove a sunroof to tilt (and thereby vent) while simultaneously blocking the radiation spewing from said nearby star. Many sunroofs/moonroofs enable this. They tilt while the sunshade can stay closed, as it moves independently of the glass portion. Therefore, they ventilate even though stopping the 4-billion-year-old sphere of horrific plasma from additional heating up the cabin (and/or your skull). Genius!
Not so with the Rogue. You want to tilt its sunroof? No problem, it’;ll tilt. Even so, the catch is that its powered sunshade must necessarily be retracted halfway, exposing half of the glass area overhead and placing your pate in direct line of sight of the screaming nuclear inferno. And considering that the Rogue has a gigantor panoramic sunroof, half of something the size of Africa is still quite danged large.
So, yeah, it’;ll tilt, but only on its own terms.
Jason Kavanagh, Engineering Editor @ 4,832 miles
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