2015 Jeep Compass
This year drew an ordinary 113 complaints for a Jeep Compass — the model's median is 172. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.6% of them mention check, against 6.3% 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 | 113 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 172 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- check — 18.6% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- codes — 15% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: codes, shuts, rpms, stored.
- abs — 10.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: abs, involved, resolution, days ago.
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
I can be driving or at a stop and the vehicle shuts off randomly. No lights come on the dash and no codes or stored codes when hooked to a scanner.
2months after purchase with only 42000 miles check engine light and ETC lights come on, horn stopped working, am/fm radio no longer working. Sometimes when check engine light and ECT lights come on, vehicle loses acceleration or accelerates on its on. Other ti…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V878000 STEERING 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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