2012 Jeep Liberty
This year drew an ordinary 385 complaints for a Jeep Liberty — the model's median is 540. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.8% of them mention bag, against 6.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 385 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 540 |
| Involving a crash | 19 |
| Involving a fire | 14 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bag — 28.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the model's other years (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, bag warning, bag light.
- airbag — 28.6% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, light came, airbag light, stayed.
- module — 29.1% of this year's complaints, against 8.7% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: module, restraint, electrical system, orc.
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 DRIVING AT UNKNOWN SPEEDS, THE AIR BAG WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE RECALL NOTICE FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 13V282000 (AIR BAGS , ELECTRICAL SYSTEM) WAS RECEIVED IN OCTOBER OF 2014. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE THE TIPM FLASHED AND THE CO…
THE CONTACT STARTED THE VEHICLE AND THE AIR BAG WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED CONTINUOUSLY. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 13V282000 (AIR BAGS , ELECTRICAL SYSTEM) AND THE TIPM WAS REPROGRAMMED. THE DEALER CONFIRMED THAT THE OCCUPANT RES…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V640000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V282000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
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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