2012 Jeep Patriot
This year drew an ordinary 353 complaints for a Jeep Patriot — the model's median is 313. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.2% of them mention fuel, against 4.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 353 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 313 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 21.2% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (4.3×).
- shoulder — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: shoulder, calling.
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
CAR STALLS OUT GOING DOWN THE ROAD. CAR MOST RECENTLY STARTS AND DIES RIGHT AFTER. WE ARE GETTING FUEL.
WHEN PUMPING GAS AT ANY GAS STATION, MY FUEL TANK SHUTS OFF THE FLOW OF GAS APPROXIMATELY EVERY 5 SECONDS. THERE SEEMS TO BE A DEFECT WITH THE GAS TANK.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V668000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V120000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 12V142000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 13V233000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Patriot 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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