2016 JEEP COMPASS

1 safety recall campaign, 4 defect investigations (1 open), 456 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations41 open
Owner complaints456
Complaints citing a crash16
Complaints citing a fire2

Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.

Recall campaigns 1 of 1

16V9070002016-12-16

ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

If the engine stalls, there is an increased the risk of a crash.

What owners report most

  • 134ENGINE
  • 60ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 47UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 43POWER TRAIN
  • 30VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
  • 22ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
  • 16FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
  • 16STEERING

This page is about a model, not a car

Two 2016 JEEP COMPASSs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.

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