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2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee seats problems

43 complaints about seats have been filed for the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is 4% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
43 4% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
0 and 1
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 1 fire, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

I was driving to work with the heated seat on. I began to feel my lower back getting extremely hot. I leaned forward and when I did I could smell something burning and my back began to burn. I quickly pulled over and jumped out of the car as quickly as possibly to see that my seat had physical flame coming from it. I contacted Jeep about the situation and was ultimately told it was somehow not a manufacturing issue.

October 2022 Fire

The contact owns a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact stated that while sitting at a stoplight, there was a loud pop on the interior of the vehicle. After a visual inspection, the contact became aware that the front passenger’s side seat active head restraint had deployed unintendedly. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed a failure with the active head restraint. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure.

Reported at 70,000 miles, October 2025

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