2014 Jeep Cherokee Complaints: What Owners Actually Filed
Owners of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee filed 2,641 complaints with NHTSA, and 55% of them name one system: the power train. That's a count of reports, not a rate: a model that sold in large numbers files more complaints than a rare one with a worse record, and nothing in the file knows how many were sold. Use it to decide what to inspect before buying, not to grade the car.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee problems owners filed, by system
| System | Complaints | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Power train | 1,448 | 55% |
| Engine | 514 | 19% |
| Electrical system | 436 | 17% |
| Fuel/propulsion system | 186 | 7% |
| Service brakes | 183 | 7% |
Vehicles with fewer than 10 complaints aren't in the file at all, so a system missing from this table drew fewer reports than the ones shown, not none. A further 283 named no system, or one the form calls other.
Is it this year, or the model line?
The power train is named most in 8 other model years of the Jeep Cherokee too: 2015 (992 of 1,784), 2016 (617 of 1,403), 2017 (640 of 1,328), 2018 (289 of 681), 2019 (771 of 1,615), 2020 (155 of 281), 2021 (81 of 152), 2022 (25 of 48). That's the pattern worth reading; one year alone can be a recall season.
The whole Jeep picture, every system by model year, is on the Jeep brand page.
Recalls to check before you buy
The one part of this page that is a verdict rather than a count: recall campaigns are the manufacturer's own admission, filed with the regulator. The list is by model year, not by car; whether a particular car had the work done is in the dealer's records, or in NHTSA's VIN lookup through our decoder.
Recalls on file
Checking NHTSA's recall file...
What we have written about it
- do-high-mileage-cars-burn-oil for the engine
- bad-alternator-or-battery for the electrical system
- what-is-oil-dilution for the fuel/propulsion system
- brake-pad-rotor-replacement-cost for the service brakes
What this page doesn't know
How many were sold. The file counts reports, not cars, so a popular model looks worse than a rare one with the same problem.
Whether your car has it. A share of complaints isn't a probability for one vehicle. It says which system to have inspected, and which service records to ask for.
Who filed. Filing is voluntary, and a recall or a news story sends owners to the form in numbers a quiet year never sees.
What it costs to fix. Nothing on this page is a repair price. The site's cost articles are censused on specific cars, not on this file.
Sources
- NHTSA consumer complaints, FLAT_CMPL bulk file. https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa-datasets-and-apis. The copy counted here is dated 2026-08-25; one complaint is counted once per vehicle, and once per system it names. The same file drives the complaints decoder.
- NHTSA recalls API, read live for this make, model and model year when the page opens.
Counts of owner reports filed with NHTSA for the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, bulk file dated 2026-08-25, rebuilt with each data refresh. General information about what owners reported, not advice about a specific car.