2024 Jeep Compass
This year drew an ordinary 52 complaints for a Jeep Compass — the model's median is 172. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.2% of them mention causing, against 6.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Jeep Compass, which began in 2017. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 52 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 172 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- causing — 19.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.7% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- found — 17.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the other years of this generation (3.4×).
- another — 15.4% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the other years of this generation (2.5×).
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
Driving the vehicle under normal conditions and no obstacles in the vicinity, the forward collision warning will engage and in some instances cause automatic breaking causing temporary loss of control. Sensors are clean, software appears up to date.
While on the open road, no vehicles or obstructions ahead or behind, the jeep suddenly and momentarily jolted. Causing a similar reaction to what it feels like to have a minor collision, a sudden application of brakes, or perhaps a similar feeling hitting some…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Compass 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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