2016 Jeep Renegade
Complaints about this year name fan far more often than the model's other years — 25% of them, about 23× the usual rate of 1.1%.
Generation 1 of the Jeep Renegade, which began in 2015. 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 | 429 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 10 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fan — 28.2% of this year's complaints, against 9.3% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: fan, cooling, cooling fan, radiator.
- traction — 10% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: traction, traction control, dry, control light.
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
- cooling fan — 12% of complaints, 16× usual
- traction control — 6% of complaints, 16× usual
- radiator fan — 6% of complaints, 15× usual
What owners wrote
COOLING FAN WENT BAD. THIS HAS BEEN A MAJOR ONGOING ISSUE WITH THESE JEEP RENEGADE.
MY ELECTRIC RADIATOR FAN IS WOBBLING AT ONLY 32,000 MILES ON THE CAR AND IT'S MAKE A HITTING NOISE FROM IT.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16E013000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 16V545000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Renegade 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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