2011 Jeep Patriot problems
Owners have filed 487 complaints with NHTSA about the 2011 Jeep Patriot. Engine is the most reported problem area, at 15% of complaints. Next are suspension (11%) and drivetrain & axles (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 487 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 15% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 35 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 18 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 70,000 miles 322 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 56 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 37 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 54 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 33 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 55 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 49 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 19 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 14 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 4 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 1 |
What the data shows
Of the 322 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 70,000 miles. For engine specifically, the median reported mileage is about 51,000 miles (61 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 35 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 18 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2011 ranks 5th most-complained-about out of 11 model years of the Jeep Patriot with enough data (208 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 4 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
On may 18th 2017 my daughter had a crash that resulted in her death while driving her 2011 jeep patriot. She ran of of a FM road, jumped a small drainage culvert on a downgrade. Continued straight and hit another drainage culvert a little larger with cement around it on an upgrade with the passenger side front tire. On the other side of the culvert was a stop sign at an intersection. The stop side broke off damaging the windshield and roof on the passenger side.
I was driving on nb I-5 in a 2005 subaru. The vehicle in front of me was this 2011 jeep patriot that I am complaining about. We were driving approx. 65MPH. I was not tailgatting! The jeep patriot's power died. The driver thought she was not getting gas and kept hitting the gas pedal. She never hit the brake. I did not see a brake light and it took me a couple seconds to realize she had slowed, then stopped (that is why I put she was going approx. 30MPH).
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 jeep patriot. The contact stated that the driver's side seat belt failed. The driver's side seat belt was cut from the clip area in order to be released, at the advisement of the dealer. The contact stated that the seat belt clip was defective. The manufacturer was contacted and denied any assistance with the repair. The seat belt was not replaced. The failure mileage was 34,000 and the current mileage was 35,000.
My jeep patriot 2011, was driving perfectly fine, I started it up one saturday afternoon 2 weeks 1 day ago, while driving down the street 15 minutes into my drive, the jeep immediately stopped accelerating. The engine light, traction control light, and the other one with squiggly lines and brackets with an exclamation mark, came on 30 seconds after it just stopped accelerating. I had to cautiously turn into a parking lot, and I turned off the car.