2016 Jeep Compass
This year drew an ordinary 291 complaints for a Jeep Compass — the model's median is 137. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.1% of them mention sensor, against 12.4% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Jeep Compass ran from 2007 to 2016, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 291 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 137 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- sensor — 35.1% of this year's complaints, against 12.4% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: sensor, crankshaft, position, camshaft.
- check — 18.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- stall — 12.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: stall, afraid, engine stall, stall out.
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 vehicle stalls while driving and restarts after cooling down. This matches a crankshaft position sensor failure. This has accrued while driving on the highway. Sounds like the Safety recall S89.
Car stalls while driving. Sometimes car will not start. Car cranks but doesn’t start. Check engine light and sometimes the traction control light goes on. This seems similar to what is the safety recall S89 but our car was manufactured in September 2015. Root…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V907000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 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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