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Jeep Grand Cherokee 2016

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.49 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 101 complaints filed in the first three years, of 310 ever. 95% lower bound 0.40.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.98	72
2009	0.27	17
2010	0.24	16
2011	1.57	167
2012	2.00	283
2013	1.71	282
2014	4.62	828
2015	2.05	389
2016	0.49	101
2017	0.53	119
2018	0.72	168
2019	0.33	78
2020	0.28	64
2021	0.99	236
2022	0.79	192
2023	1.83	429

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Engine 76 complaints

park	13	18%
way	12	16%

Electrical System 61 complaints

park	12	20%
restart	10	17%

When it breaks

46% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 32,139 miles, from 182 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

3 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10824042 · 10839068 · 10855417 · 10859872 · 10861464 · 10861930

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.