2013 Jeep Compass
This year drew an ordinary 80 complaints for a Jeep Compass — the model's median is 172. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.8% of them mention transmission, against 6.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Jeep Compass, which began in 2007 and ran to 2016. 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 | 80 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 172 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 28.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.9% across the other years of this generation (4.2×).
- over — 36.3% of this year's complaints, against 13.6% across the other years of this generation (2.7×).
- bags — 30% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, belts, failure vin.
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 CONTACT OWNED A 2013 JEEP COMPASS. THE CONTACT'S VEHICLE WAS REAR ENDED BY A DUMP TRUCK. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE CONTACT'S GRANDSON SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES THAT DID NOT REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED…
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V668000 (AIR BAGS, SEAT BELTS). THE PART NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE [VIN] EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE T…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V668000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Compass 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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