2016 Jeep Patriot
This year drew an ordinary 457 complaints for a Jeep Patriot — the model's median is 313. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.9% of them mention sensor, against 7.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 457 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 313 |
| Involving a crash | 24 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- sensor — 28.9% of this year's complaints, against 7.6% across the model's other years (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: sensor, crankshaft, camshaft, crankshaft sensor.
- code — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- s89 — 6.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: s89, exact, recall s89.
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 car will stall while driving, making it tough to keep on the road and very dangerous for a crash. After taking to a Jeep dealership, it was determined the issue is associated with Safety Recall S89 / NHTSA 16V-907 regarding the crankshaft and camshaft sens…
Like many other Jeep Patriot owners, I have experienced driving down the road when out of nowhere, the car dies! Mechanics keep telling people that either the camshaft position sensor or the crankshaft position sensor needs to be replaced...... It's a temporar…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V907000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 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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