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Body · 11 owner reports

Other body or interior problem on the 2007 Jeep Patriot 4X4

Only 7 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 11
With an odometer reading 7
Reports per 1,000 built 81 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 29%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 6th

When other body or interior problem gets reported

There are 11 reports of other body or interior problem on the 2007 Jeep Patriot 4X4, 7 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 7 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 48,000 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 $200–$2,000 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 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 50,000 miles, and latest on the 2009 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 13; the 2007 has 11. 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.

Median
  1. 2007 (this one) 48k
  2. 2008 Jeep Patriot 4X4 other body or interior problem 49k
  3. 2009 Jeep Patriot 4X4 other body or interior problem 104k
  4. 2010 Jeep Patriot 4X4 other body or interior problem 54k

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.

Whistling sound when air is on (not necesarily AC). High pitched whistling sound is evident any time air is blowing on highest or next to highest setting. A little annoying... Sometimes enough to move it to a lower setting just to reduce whistling sound.

1,235 miles NHTSA complaint 629362 filed 2007-07-04

Front & rear wheel bearings on my 2007 jeep patroit. When I first picked up this vehicle as a least vehicle, my father, who is a former chrysler engineering technician of highland park mich told me to take it back to the dealer and have the front and rear wheel bearings inspected. He said he suspects they are faulty because he said he heard them making a grinding noise. As soon as time permitted I did that and the dealership, richmond chrysler replaced the rear bearings only. They supposedly road tested the car and said it was finished. I picked it up and had my father also road test it. He said the front bearings were making a worse noise than ever and they should have caught this at the dealership. When I ask the dealership about it, they said it was no longer covered as my warranty had run out. On monday of this week I was forced to take it back and get it fixed. The dealership has ordered the part three different times and all the bearings were bad and returned by the dealership. They finally received a good set and now they give me a bill of $1400.00. My father retired in 2006 after working 41 years. I think this is very…

48,000 miles NHTSA complaint 733271 filed 2009-08-27

1. Went into firestone for oil change, and to look at my tires because I thought they were loose. 2. Front control arms and ball joints are messed up, which caused severe damage to inner tires to where the wires inside the tire were showing from the outside. 3. Had to replace control arms and front tires. *tr

50,000 miles NHTSA complaint 768528 filed 2010-03-01

Also reported on the 2007 Jeep Patriot 4X4

Other suspension problem

29 reports median 43k

Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure

26 reports median 88k

Other fuel system problem

18 reports median 97k

Other powertrain problem

10 reports median 48k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 11 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 11 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2007 Jeep Patriot 4X4?

Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other body or interior problem on the 2007 Jeep Patriot 4X4?

11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 81 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