Other driver assistance problem on the 2017 Jeep Compass
When other driver assistance problem gets reported
Owners of the 2017 Jeep Compass report other driver assistance problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 30,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 1,200 miles at the tenth percentile to 50,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 47,669 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
75% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,191 miles | 9,425 miles | 21,000 miles | 32,000 miles | 48,860 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2007 at 165,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 37; the 2017 has 8. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Total electrical failure on the highway, no stability control, hvac, turn signals, hazzard lights, 4WD, every electrical item malfunctions, just the engine runs but all instrumentation and electrical accessory stop working in the middle of driving.
I am still in shock and still quite shaken up on the morning of tues., 9/25/2018, when as usual got out of my home into my jeep to go to work a few minutes before 6 am. I carefully at the entrance and exit of my community, I wait for ongoing traffic to be far enough for me to drive towards the blvd. As my jeep started towards part of the boulevard all of sudden, the engine stopped as I did not press the bypass button so the jeep went into sleep mode, when I pressed the button, it read," put vehicle on parking mode to restart". My heart almost came out of my mouth because if there was traffic on my left I definitely would have been killed by the oncoming traffic that was heading towards me from the left, I placed the jeep in park, I then placed it on drive and headed to the divider of the intersection. In tears, I turned back home and left the jeep in the driveway. I called greenway immediately to report the incident. I have a copy of my conversation with the greenway dodge, chyrsler, jeep and ram service operator on tuesday, september 25, 2018,. A service appt was set for 9/29/18,at greenway. My husband and I were told by service…
Also reported on the 2017 Jeep Compass
Parking brake failure
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Infotainment screen failure
No-start or intermittent start failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 8 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other driver assistance problem happen on the 2017 Jeep Compass?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 30,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other driver assistance problem on the 2017 Jeep Compass?
8 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed