2013 Jeep Patriot
This year drew an ordinary 120 complaints for a Jeep Patriot — the model's median is 325. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.2% of them mention seat, against 6.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 120 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 325 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 19.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- deployed — 15% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, even though, headrest, headrest deployed.
- heat — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: heat, bumper, photos, seatbelt.
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
The passenger headrest AHR has deployed a couple years ago while parked. I tried working with the dealer for the past year to get it fixed under a recall. The dealer said it was covered for a limited time but no longer is covered. I do not understand why that…
I OWN A 2013 JEEP PATRIOT. I HAVE HAD NOTHING BUT ISSUES WITH IT AND I PURCHASED IT BRAND NEW IN DECEMBER OF 2012. FROM IT TURNING COMPLETELY OFF ON ME WHILE SITTING AT LIGHTS. TO IT HAVING POWER SURGES, AND THE SEATBELTS STOP WORKING. I HAD THE ENGINE REPLACE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V668000 SEAT BELTS 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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