CarComplaints.com Notes: Be warned the previous model year (2015) Jeep Renegade has a large number of complaints reported by owners. Time will tell whether the 2016 Renegade has the same issues.
I'd noticed a clunking noise on the right front whenever I turned left into my driveway in late winter/early spring of 2019, but it started to become pretty consistent as we got into June and July. Since I had to have the car serviced in July for an oil change, I asked them to take a look at the tire. Good thing I did because my service adviser said they had to rebuild the entire front end.
This WOULD have been pricey except I got it in before the warranty ran out (8/16/19), so I got VERY lucky and my timing was good.
I asked why this happened to a three year old car that only had 24,000 miles on it, was driven by a middle-aged woman, mostly city driving back and forth to work, wasn't a "hot rodder" or did any off-road fooling around? I had a PT Cruiser for 11 years and I think I replaced the shocks and struts on that thing after I'd been driving it for 10 years because they just wore out. So I'm NOT someone who's hard on vehicles.
My adviser said, "We don't ask those questions. We just replace them." Hmm...
I have to wonder if these things are built so that they WILL fail after x-many years or miles; that way they can get a profit on something that wasn't built very well to begin with.
Anyway, I'm adding my story here so that if others have this problem, I'll be part of the evidence showing that this may become a common issue. To have to rebuild a front end after only 24,000 (mostly city) miles? That doesn't make sense.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I'd noticed a clunking noise on the right front whenever I turned left into my driveway in late winter/early spring of 2019, but it started to become pretty consistent as we got into June and July. Since I had to have the car serviced in July for an oil change, I asked them to take a look at the tire. Good thing I did because my service adviser said they had to rebuild the entire front end.
This WOULD have been pricey except I got it in before the warranty ran out (8/16/19), so I got VERY lucky and my timing was good.
I asked why this happened to a three year old car that only had 24,000 miles on it, was driven by a middle-aged woman, mostly city driving back and forth to work, wasn't a "hot rodder" or did any off-road fooling around? I had a PT Cruiser for 11 years and I think I replaced the shocks and struts on that thing after I'd been driving it for 10 years because they just wore out. So I'm NOT someone who's hard on vehicles.
My adviser said, "We don't ask those questions. We just replace them." Hmm...
I have to wonder if these things are built so that they WILL fail after x-many years or miles; that way they can get a profit on something that wasn't built very well to begin with.
Anyway, I'm adding my story here so that if others have this problem, I'll be part of the evidence showing that this may become a common issue. To have to rebuild a front end after only 24,000 (mostly city) miles? That doesn't make sense.
- Andrea D., Lansing, MI, US