YearsTell

all vehicles · every Cherokee year · method

Jeep Cherokee 2016

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

1.46 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 306 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1410 ever. 95% lower bound 1.29.

Against its own model years

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

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20145.60999
20153.64726
20161.46306
20172.21408
20181.51309
20192.85613
20200.3150
20210.4449
20220.3221

What owners describe

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

Power Train 633 complaints

ptu16826%
shifter15224%
service shifter12420%
message11017%
transfer9916%
unit9715%

Engine 314 complaints

park6621%
gear4615%
shift3812%
shifter3612%
motion3411%
put park3210%

Unknown Or Other 313 complaints

service15650%
shifter13944%
service shifter12440%
gear5919%
message4715%
shifter light4514%

When it breaks

32% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 44,000 miles, from 874 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 16 complaints about this component over roughly 32 months before an investigation opened.

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:

10788109 · 10794608 · 10810021 · 10811971 · 10816211 · 10818836

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.