2009 Jeep Liberty
This year drew an ordinary 108 complaints for a Jeep Liberty — the model's median is 540. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.2% of them mention inspection, against 3.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 108 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 540 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- inspection — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: inspection, prevent, stays.
- causes — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: causes, resulting, defroster, since new.
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
AIR BAG COVER IS VERY STICKY AND FEELS LIKE IT STAYS THIS WAY NO MATTER HOW MUCH I WIPE IT DOWN.
THE CONTACT WAS REFUELING THE VEHICLE WHEN FUEL SPEWED FROM THE FILLER NECK. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER OR INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR INSPECTION OR REPAIRS. THE [VIN] WAS MADE AWARE OF THE ISSUE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 42000.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09E039000 SUSPENSION
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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