2006 Jeep Liberty
Complaints about this year name window far more often than the model's other years — 32% of them, about 7× the usual rate of 4.6%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,370 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 385 |
| Involving a crash | 40 |
| Involving a fire | 19 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- window — 32.8% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the model's other years (7.1×). Owners wrote it as: window, regulator, window regulator, regulators.
- ball — 12% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (5.4×). Owners wrote it as: ball, joint, ball joint, suspension.
- door — 16.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: door, fell.
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.
Also unusual this year
- regulator — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
- window regulator — 11% of complaints, 27× usual
- windows — 16% of complaints, 6× usual
What owners wrote
BOTH REAR, DRIVER AND PASSENGER SIDE POWER WINDOW REGULATOR,. FAILED.CAUSING WINDOWS TO DROP WHILE DRIVING 1 MONTH APART. VERY DANGEROUS. IN MOTION, ON A CITY HIGHWAY VERY SCARY AND DANGEROUS.COULD CAUSE ACCIDENT OR HARM TO PASSENGERS.
THE WINDOW REGULATORS WERE DEFECTIVE AND THE WINDOWS OPENED INVOLUNTARILY. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BY AN AUTHORIZED DEALER BUT THE FAILURE OCCURRED AGAIN. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 60,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 70,000.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V278000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 05V460000 POWER TRAIN
- 15V222000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 12V085000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 13V252000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 06V288000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 09E039000 SUSPENSION
- 07V089000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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