2021 Jeep Renegade
This year drew an ordinary 66 complaints for a Jeep Renegade — the model's median is 429. What they were about is the unusual part: 25.8% of them mention features, against 8.6% 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 | 66 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 429 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- features — 25.8% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: features, backing, worked, forums.
- unable — 15.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (4×).
- things — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: things, off car.
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 screen for the control panel is going out. I have researched online and at least 100 other people are having the same issue. This screen plays a big part in the safety features available on the vehicle. I believe that Jeep should look further into this iss…
I drive the 2021 Jeep Renegade SUV and out of the blue my touchscreen just went out. The radio still works but the screen stopped working for no reason. This is huge outage endangers the public when backing up because I can't see anything on the screen when re…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V510000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V918000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING 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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