2007 Jeep Liberty
This year drew an ordinary 703 complaints for a Jeep Liberty — the model's median is 385. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.3% of them mention window, against 5.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 703 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 385 |
| Involving a crash | 25 |
| Involving a fire | 12 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- window — 33.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (6×). Owners wrote it as: window, window regulator, side window, window regulators.
- regulators — 10% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (49.8×).
- door — 28.6% of this year's complaints, against 11.1% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: door, fell, glass, four.
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
ALL FOUR POWER WINDOW REGULATORS WERE DEFECTIVE AND WERE REPLACED EIGHT DIFFERENT TIMES BY AN AUTHORIZED DEALER. IN ADDITION, THE REAR PASSENGER'S SIDE WINDOW GLASS SHATTERED INSIDE THE DOOR PANEL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE THE WINDOW GLASS, CA…
WHILE DRIVING AT 40 MPH, THE REAR DRIVER SIDE WINDOW FELL INTO THE DOOR PANEL. THE CONTACT STATED THAT EVERY WINDOW REGULATOR FAILED IN THE VEHICLE AT LEAST ONCE SINCE THE DATE OF PURCHASE. MOST RECENTLY, THE REAR DRIVER WINDOW REGULATOR FAILED A SECOND TIME.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V278000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 12V085000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 13V252000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 09E039000 SUSPENSION
- 07V089000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 06V341000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 06V493000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Liberty 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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