Other powertrain problem on the 2018 Jeep Compass
4 crashes 1 injury 5 of the 87 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2018 Jeep Compass report other powertrain problem at a median of 25,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles, from 55 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 600 miles at the tenth percentile to 82,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 81,206 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
65% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 594 miles | 7,958 miles | 26,000 miles | 44,750 miles | 81,800 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
Of these reports, 4 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 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 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2023, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 120,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Radio (display) keeps shutting off and takes minutes to reconnect, brought into dealership say they cant find anything wrong with it it. Has done it 2 more times since then. Here a loud noise when running between 35pmh-45mph, brought into dealership and they said noise is coming from drivetrain, found starcase for exact conditions and engineering is working on a soultion, no dtc's. Was sent on my way. We just purchased vehicle in march of 2018. Not a happy customer!
I was stopping at a stop sign. I went to give the car gas and it spit and sputtered. Cars in the northbound lane had to take the gravel or they would have hit me. I touched the gas and then the gas pedal stuck. It was 55mph hwy and I was already at 65mph. I was going to run into the traffic or take the ditch. I tried shifting into neutral and it would not. I hit the gravel and put on the brakes. I finally brought car to a stop. Put car in park and tried to shut car off. It would not.went to take foot off brake and the RPM's needle was buried. The engine was racing. I pushed both the brake and gas pedal several times and the car finally shut down. There were lights on the dash on an a! And the check engine light. My son in law came to pick me up cause car had to be towed. We looked at gas pedal and brake. Nothing seemed wrong. I had it towed to the dealer 78 miles away. Absolutely horrible experience. *tt *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2018 jeep compass. While attempting to accelerate, the vehicle failed to move. The contact depressed the accelerator pedal and the "gear shift" message displayed. Shortly afterwards, the vehicle violently jolted forward and then dropped. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was taken to puente hills chrysler dodge jeep ram (17280 gale ave, city of industry, ca 91748, (626) 513-0002), but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 31,081.
Also reported on the 2018 Jeep Compass
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Parking brake failure
Excessive oil consumption
No-start or intermittent start failure
Infotainment screen failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 87 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2018 Jeep Compass?
Across 55 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2018 Jeep Compass?
87 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 3.2 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