Model years Jeep Grand Cherokee
2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee
This year drew an ordinary 117 complaints for a Jeep Grand Cherokee — the model's median is 473. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.8% of them mention timing, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Jeep Grand Cherokee ran from 2005 to 2010, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 117 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 473 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- timing — 12.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: timing, timing chain, broken, valves.
- tire — 12% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: tire, valve, size, equipped.
- mode — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: mode, same thing, felt, losing.
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
WHILE TRAVELLING ON THE INTERSTATE AT 75 MPH THE VALVE STEM EXPLODED. THE TIRE LOST ALL OF ITS AIR WITHIN ABOUT 10 SECONDS. THE ALUMINIUM NUT ON THE OUTSIDE THAT HOLDS THE VALVE STEM AND TIRE PRESSURE MONITOR ONTO THE WHEEL HAD BROKEN APART. UPON FURTHER INSPE…
TIMING CHAIN BROKE AT HIGHWAY SPEED, NO POWER, HAD TO COAST TO SIDE OF ROAD. ENGINE REQUIRED [VIN].
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.
- 09V454000 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 Grand Cherokee 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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