NHTSA Safety Recalls
2013 Jeep Patriot Recalls
The 2013 Jeep Patriot has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on September 15, 2016.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2013 Jeep Patriot. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 120
- Crashes reported
- 5
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
2 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2013 Jeep Patriot, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2013 Jeep Patriot
Seat belts: pretensioner
- Campaign
- 16V668000
- Reported
- September 15, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,435,625
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2010–2012, 2014 Patriot, 5 other models
2013 Jeep Patriot complaints by year
NHTSA has received 120 owner complaints about the 2013 Jeep Patriot, the newest on September 29, 2025. Of these, 5 describe a crash (4%) and 2 a fire; owners reported 5 injuries.
In complaints about the 2013 Jeep Patriot, the component group named most often is the air bags (28%), followed by the engine (21%) and the seat belts (19%).
The 2013 Jeep Patriot's only recall also concerns the seat belts.
Where 2013 Jeep Patriot owners gave the mileage (77 complaints), the median was 50,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags33
- Engine25
- Seat Belts23
- Power Train19
- Unknown Or Other13
- Electrical System11
Complaints received, by year
| 2013 | 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | |
| 2015 | 11 | |
| 2016 | 12 | |
| 2017 | 34 | |
| 2018 | 9 | |
| 2019 | 14 | |
| 2020 | 13 | |
| 2022 | 4 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 3 |
Complaints about the 2013 Jeep Patriot peaked in 2017, when NHTSA received 34. 32% arrived between 2012 and 2016, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2013 vehicles, the 2013 Jeep Patriot drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Jeep Patriot year in the same window: 7th highest of the 9 ranked years.
That makes 2013 one of the three best-measured Jeep Patriot years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★☆
- Frontal: 3/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 120 complaints about the 2013 Jeep Patriot are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Jeep Patriot by model year
Other 2013 Jeep models
Newest record on this page: September 29, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted