Federal complaint record · Jeep Grand Cherokee · model year 2013

2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Owners submitted 799 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 64th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 34% · group n = 376Brakes · 14% · group n = 152Fuel system · 10% · group n = 111Engine · 10% · group n = 108Other · 6% · group n = 64
799
Complaint records on file
67,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 435 complaints reported mileage
34%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 376
64th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Electrical · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Electrical34%

Electrical reports

Jeep Grand Cherokee · model year 2013

Reports in this group376
Share of classified reports34%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,637 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
799 matched incidents
2014
1.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
2,369 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Electrical faults · 174 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 32013 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Brake performance · 146 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32013 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Stalling or shutdown · 145 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32013 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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