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Model years to avoid

Jeep Cherokee

What it says about you

Opinion

The name has been on several very different vehicles and yours signals which decade you arrived in.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

11 model years on record, 9,923 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (transmission), 2014 (transmission). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • service shifter 2016, 2017, 2018 peak 45.7% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2014, 2015 peak 39.6% of that year's complaints
  • ptu 2020, 2021 peak 33.8% of that year's complaints
  • software 2014, 2015 peak 12.2% of that year's complaints
  • shifting 2014, 2015 peak 11.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 2 recalls 3 complaints
  2. 2023 1 recall 3 complaints
  3. 2022 3 recalls 48 complaints
  4. 2021 4 recalls 151 complaints
  5. 2020 3 recalls 279 complaints
  6. 2019 11 recalls 1,611 complaints
  7. 2018 7 recalls 681 complaints
  8. 2017 6 recalls 1,325 complaints
  9. 2016 9 recalls 1,403 complaints
  10. 2015 transmission 1,780 complaints
  11. 2014 transmission 2,639 complaints

What does a Jeep Cherokee say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.