2016 JEEP PATRIOT — Complaint #1941797
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL:ACTUATOR/SOLENOID filed November 8, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1941797 (ODI reference 11554250) concerns a 2016 JEEP PATRIOT and was filed on November 8, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 8, 2023. The vehicle had 83,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:electrical:actuator/solenoid, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same JEEP PATRIOT cohort independently describe similar parking brake:electrical:actuator/solenoid failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 JEEP PATRIOT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the contact turned off the vehicle and heard an unusual clicking sound. The contact later discovered that the battery had been drained. The contact stated the failure recurred almost every two years. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and diagnosed with a failed actuator. The contact was informed that the actuator needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and was advised the contact to report the failure to the NHTSA Hotline. The failure mileage was approximately 83,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1941797 |
| ODI Number | 11554250 |
| Date Filed | November 8, 2023 |
| Failure Date | November 8, 2023 |
| VIN | 1C4NJPBA1GD |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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