Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

Jeep model years compared

Every Jeep model in the catalogue (1962–2026), with owner complaints, recall campaigns, urgent advisories and fatal-crash involvement summed across all model years. Open a model to see its years side by side and the best and worst year called out.

81,853
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the Grand Cherokee
388
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the Grand Cherokee
5
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
8,511
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

Jeep models ranked by complaints

Jeep models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
Grand Cherokee 1993–2026 (34)
29,018
123 1 2,699 19.2
Wrangler 1987–2026 (39)
15,802
90 2 2,117 18.9
Cherokee 1974–2026 (39)
14,744
90 1 1,175 20.3
Liberty 2002–2013 (12)
8,878
30 662 17.5
Compass 2007–2026 (20)
3,680
26 666 25.2
Patriot 2007–2017 (11)
2,785
10 497 24.5
Commander 2006–2025 (6)
2,751
13 114 15.4
Renegade 2015–2026 (12)
2,196
13 311 25.5
Gladiator 1962–2026 (15)
980
22 1 167 18.9
Wagoneer 1963–2025 (32)
427
50 33 19.2
Grand Cherokee L 2021–2026 (6)
319
10 56 21
Grand Wagoneer 1984–2026 (14)
190
23 11 15.5
Wagoneer S 2025–2026 (2)
77
6 93
Wagoneer L 2023–2025 (3)
5
1 2 20
Grand Wagoneer L 2023–2026 (4)
1
2 1 17
TJ catalogue only 1997–2006 (10)

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Sources. Owner complaints, recall campaigns and advisories are from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation datasets; fatal-crash vehicles from FARS; fuel economy from the EPA. VehDB sums them per model; the figures are not VehDB's own findings.

How to read it. Complaints and recalls are summed over every catalogue year of the model, so long-running best-sellers rank high on volume alone; the model page ranks each year against other vehicles of the same model year, which is the fairer read. Urgent counts do-not-drive and park-outside campaigns. Fatal (FARS) is a census of vehicles in fatal crashes from 2020 onward, exact, and is never mixed with CRSS estimates. MPG is the EPA combined average across the model's trims. Sources are U.S. public domain; nothing here is a verified defect finding.