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Model years to avoid

Jeep Grand Cherokee

What it says about you

Opinion

You will take it off road. You will. The fact that you have not yet is a scheduling problem, not a character one.

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

23 model years on record, 16,900 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (headrest), 2014 (headrest), 2012 (electrical system), 2011 (tipm), 2007 , 2006 (handles), 2005 (door handles). 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.

  • screen 2018, 2020 peak 35.2% of that year's complaints
  • electrical 2012, 2013 peak 31.3% of that year's complaints
  • tire 2009, 2010, 2020 peak 23.9% of that year's complaints
  • tipm 2011, 2019 peak 28.3% of that year's complaints
  • brakes 2011, 2013, 2019 peak 20.9% of that year's complaints
  • seat 2014, 2015 peak 14.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 3 recalls 11 complaints
  3. 2025 3 recalls 65 complaints
  4. 2024 15 recalls 239 complaints
  5. 2023 20 recalls 473 complaints
  6. 2022 12 recalls 367 complaints
  7. 2021 12 recalls 399 complaints
  8. 2020 3 recalls 229 complaints
  9. 2019 7 recalls 358 complaints
  10. 2018 11 recalls 846 complaints
  11. 2017 6 recalls 363 complaints
  12. 2016 9 recalls 308 complaints
  13. 2015 headrest 1,350 complaints
  14. 2014 headrest 2,372 complaints
  15. 2013 10 recalls 800 complaints
  16. 2012 electrical system 1,638 complaints
  17. 2011 tipm 1,638 complaints
  18. 2010 5 recalls 117 complaints
  19. 2009 3 recalls 138 complaints
  20. 2008 5 recalls 733 complaints
  21. 2007 7 recalls 1,108 complaints
  22. 2006 handles 1,297 complaints
  23. 2005 door handles 2,051 complaints

What does a Jeep Grand 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.