2009 Jeep Commander
This year drew an ordinary 58 complaints for a Jeep Commander — the model's median is 436. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.1% of them mention sensors, against 2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 58 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 436 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- sensors — 12.1% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (6×). Owners wrote it as: sensors, few minutes, lights come, remaining.
- found — 15.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the model's other years (3.2×).
- technician — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (3.8×).
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
WHEN DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE VEHICLE WOULD STALL WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC HOWEVER, THE TECHNICIAN WAS UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE. THE [VIN] WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE…
THIS MORNING THE CAR WOULD NOT START AT ALL. BATTERY IS 100%. ALL LIGHTS COME ON, EVERYTHING ELSE WORKS FINE BUT ENGINE WILL NOT START. VEHICLE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION VERY LOW MILEAGE. IF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED OUT IN THE BUSH WE WOULD BE IN SERIOUS TROUB…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09V118000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 13V175000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 09E039000 SUSPENSION
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Commander 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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