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Jeep Patriot 2008

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

0.88 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 49 complaints filed in the first three years, of 447 ever. 95% lower bound 0.63.

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	0.88	49
2009	0.78	34
2010	0.51	18
2011	0.94	44
2012	1.47	86
2013	0.38	26
2014	1.57	133
2015	0.69	73
2016	0.84	101
2017	0.23	19

What owners describe

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

Suspension 110 complaints

arms	35	31%
control arms	30	27%
tie	28	25%
tie rods	14	13%
rods	14	13%
patriots	12	11%

Fuel/Propulsion System 89 complaints

after filling	24	27%
filling gas	21	24%
steering wheel	16	18%
locks	15	17%
wheel locks	10	12%
after fill	10	12%

Structure 88 complaints

subframe	30	34%
dome	14	16%
dome light	10	12%

When it breaks

11% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 74,500 miles, from 383 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

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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 automated checks only, not verified against an external source.