2018 Jeep Renegade
Complaints about this year name oil far more often than the model's other years — 31% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 9.4%.
Generation 1 of the Jeep Renegade, which began in 2015. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 440 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stalled — 21.1% of this year's complaints, against 8.4% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: stalled, vehicle stalled, car stalled, busy.
- test — 6.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (3×).
- checked — 7% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.5×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- stalled — 18% of complaints, 4× usual
- oil consumption — 10% of complaints, 8× usual
- low — 13% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
EXCESSIVE OIL CONSUMPTION. OIL CHANGED 8/7/2020, LOW OIL LIGHT ON 9/4/2020. OIL CHANGED AGAIN 9/5/2020 SHORT 4 QUARTS 10/25/2020. JEEP STALLED. NO WARNINGS. BATTERY FINE, HAS GAS.
I have been experiencing higher then normal oil consumption issues, I am having to add 1-1.5 quarts of oil every 1000 miles, my vehicle has stalled out while driving on multiple occasions, due oil levels being to low, the oil level light never comes on prior t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V731000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V524000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Renegade 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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