Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEERING | |||
| 09/10/2012 | 50000 | ||
| While driving vehicle, patriot began to make a weird noise and when braking on any incline the brake pedal would fell as though it was bouncing and you could hear a ticking noise from passenger front area of car. shortly after the abs/traction control light came on. after having the car scanned at a local shop, it wasn't reading what was wrong. they reset computer and after driving over 20mph, the lightscame back on. i recently took it into a local mechanic shop where they analized the computer system and brake system. the back right passenger tire abs sensor had failed and needs replaced along with the lower control arms and ball joints on the front right side estimating cost to fixis around $1000.00 for a car with 57,500 miles now. | |||
| 11/26/2012 | 37449 | ||
| Right lower control arm needed replacement at just over 37,000 miles. the left lower control arm was replaced previously at 28,000 miles. in 50 years, i've never owned a car that needed to have the control arms replaced this quickly. seems like this is a design defect that ought to be corrected by chrysler. | |||
| STEERING - WHEEL AND HANDLE BAR | |||
| 01/31/2011 | 23246 | ||
| I had to replace the front ball joints on my 2007 jeep and it cost me over $700. my car is 4 months past factory warranty and only has 23,000 miles. i feel jeep should pay for this repair as the ball joints should not fail after only 23,000 miles | |||