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Jeep Renegade 2018

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

2.06 per 1,000

1.2 times this nameplate’s own median · from 206 complaints filed in the first three years, of 443 ever. 95% lower bound 1.77.

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
2015	2.82	172
2016	1.75	147
2017	2.46	258
2018	2.06	206
2019	0.21	18
2020	0.33	23
2021	0.44	24
2022	0.51	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.

Engine 190 complaints

change	52	27%
consumption	44	23%
oil consumption	42	22%
oil change	42	22%
low oil	32	17%
oil pressure	25	13%

Electrical System 131 complaints

screen	45	34%
camera	31	24%
black	19	15%
backup	14	11%
back camera	11	9%
backup camera	11	9%

Unknown Or Other 95 complaints

backup	15	16%
backup camera	14	15%
stalling	11	12%

When it breaks

67% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 16,000 miles, from 228 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

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:

11093945 · 11101462 · 11104875 · 11115043 · 11123471 · 11123943

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.