2010 Jeep Commander
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Jeep Commander — the model's median is 436. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.3% of them mention replace, against 2.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 436 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- replace — 13.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (5.2×).
- off vehicle — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (6×).
- vehicle off — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (13.1×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
AFTER PARKING AND TURNING THE VEHICLE OFF, THE ENGINE CONTINUED TO RUN. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE TECHNICIAN DIAGNOSED THAT THE WIRELESS IGNITION MODULE NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE [VIN] WAS MADE AWARE OF…
I HAVE HAD TO REPLACE THE BATTERY IN MY CAR 4 TIMES SINCE I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE 5 YEARS AGO.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 13V175000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 10V200000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 10V085000 EQUIPMENT
- 10V009000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Commander was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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