2005 Jeep Liberty
This year drew an ordinary 1,118 complaints for a Jeep Liberty — the model's median is 385. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.4% of them mention ball, against 1.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,118 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 385 |
| Involving a crash | 73 |
| Involving a fire | 27 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- ball — 18.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (9.9×). Owners wrote it as: ball, lower ball, joint, ball joint.
- gasoline — 22.5% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: gasoline, fuel system, structure, system gasoline.
- diesel — 6.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (11.7×). Owners wrote it as: diesel, crd, liberty crd, torque.
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
A RECALL NOTIFICATION FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 13V252000 (FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE STRUCTURE) AND STATED THAT THE PART NEEDED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN AVAILABLE FOR OVER A YEAR. THE DEALER DID NOT PROVIDE A SPECIFIC DATE FOR WHEN THE PART WOULD BECOME…
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 13V252000 (FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE , STRUCTURE) AND STATED THAT THE PART NEEDED WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SERVICE THE VEHICLE UNDER THE RECALL REPAIR. THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO PROVIDE AN EXPECTED DATE FOR THE PART TO BECOME AVAILA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V278000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 12V085000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 12E047000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 13V252000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 06V288000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 09E039000 SUSPENSION
- 05V460000 POWER TRAIN
- 06E026000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Liberty 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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