2019 Jeep Renegade
This year drew an ordinary 78 complaints for a Jeep Renegade — the model's median is 429. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.1% of them mention seat, against 4% across the model's other years.
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 | 78 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 429 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 14.1% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- buy — 10.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (5.5×). Owners wrote it as: buy, stay, dollars.
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 left taillight system is defective. The 5 electrical prongs have one in the middle that is missing. Hence, I had to buy another. The new one doesnt stay connected in the casing. Tape wont hold it. The piece is also defective as the two connectors dont fit…
About a week after buying the car, the back windows will roll down when they want(not all the time) a couple years into having the car, Turned car on one day, and the gas gauge would not properly tell me how much was in it. A few weeks later the main digital r…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V191000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 19V287000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V438000 AIR BAGS
- 24V510000 AIR BAGS 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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