2010 Jeep Liberty
This year drew an ordinary 195 complaints for a Jeep Liberty — the model's median is 540. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.3% of them mention leaking, against 3.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 195 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 540 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- leaking — 10.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: leaking, core, heater core, core replaced.
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
HEATER CORE LEAKING ON MY FOOT WHILE DRIVING BURNT ME. AND ANTIFREEZE ON CARPET MADE MY SHOES SLIPPERY AND WHEN I TRIED TO BRAKE MY FOOT SLIPPED OFF THE PEDDLE.
JUNE 2 2015 APPROXIMATELY 54000 MILES ON VEHICLE PURCHASED WITH 17,000 FROM JEEP DEALERSHIP. ENGINE SEIZED WITH OUT WARNING WHILE IN MOTION ON WAY HOME FROM WORK. NO SMOKE AND NO LIGHTS ON DASH TO FOREWARN ME. NO COOLANT EVER LEAKED ON GARAGE FLOOR OR ANYWHERE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V315000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V009000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
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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