2024 JEEP COMPASS — Complaint #2178233
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE filed February 18, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178233 (ODI reference 11718920) concerns a 2024 JEEP COMPASS and was filed on February 18, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 8, 2024. The vehicle had 3,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance, 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 COMPASS cohort independently describe similar forward collision avoidance 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 2024 JEEP COMPASS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2024 Jeep Compass. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the brakes independently activated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer; however, the failure was not duplicated. The contact was informed that without any fault codes, no actions could be taken. The dealer deactivated the front sensor. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The failure reoccurred. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and a case was filed. The contact was advised to contact the NHTSA Hotline to report the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 3,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178233 |
| ODI Number | 11718920 |
| Date Filed | February 18, 2026 |
| Failure Date | July 8, 2024 |
| VIN | 3C4NJDCN3RT |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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