r/JeepRenegade

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I've always wanted a Jeep, but I've always heard they're unreliable. Well, I recently totaled my Nissan Sentra and now I'm looking for a replacement.

I found a 2018 Renegade Latitude 4x4 with 62k miles for $13k. It's bright yellow, has heated seats, a heated steering wheel, Android Auto, and pretty much everything I want in a car. I absolutely love it 😭

The CARFAX looks pretty good and shows regular maintenance, but everyone I talk to keeps telling me not to buy a Jeep because of the transmission issues.

Here's the thing. My Nissan needed a new transmission THREE MONTHS after I bought it, so I really don't want to go through that again. 😂

I did test drive a 2019 Renegade and noticed it was pretty sluggish, especially going uphill. I've seen a few people mention delayed acceleration and weird shifting. Is that just how these cars drive, or does it depend on the individual car?

I plan on being pretty meticulous with maintenance, including oil changes every 5k miles. I don't mind taking care of my car, but I really don't want to spend my weekends fixing it.

For those of you with a 2018 Renegade, how many miles do you have? Have you had any major issues? Would you buy another one?

I'm not expecting a perfect car. I just want something that'll hopefully last me a few years without becoming a money pit.

Please give me some hope because I really want this little yellow Jeep. 😂💛

154k trouble free miles. I’m getting an odd misfire at highway speeds. There’s no pattern to the skip and it Idles fine. It takes off from a stop perfectly. It doesn’t throw any codes.

It might skip once or less in a mile, and only in the highway. It feels like a quick jolt. I put fuel treatment in and topped off the tank. No change.

Any thoughts?

A quick ‘back of the envelope’ calculation tells me that modern humans (Homo sapiens) have been mass producing the automobile for over 120 years. Granted, many early models didn’t have electric lights. So I’ll be fair and say that we’ve been producing automobiles with electric lights for roughly 100 years.

During this time, we’ve gotten pretty good at making bulbs work. We regulate the voltage, weatherproof the electrical connections and weatherproof the bulbs themselves. Pretty bulletproof.

However, the Jeep Renegade’s DRLs are an unmitigated design disaster. The wiring harness produce too much voltage - which causes the bulb’s soldered connections to melt. This also causes the wire socket to burn and melt. Adding to this, the bulbs are located in an arm-chafing location that will draw blood at each bulb replacement.

The replacement bulb will last a month at best. I’ve had several bulbs last only days. The replacement bulb socket may last a year, but eventually, they will all fail. Replacing everything fixes nothing. The new bulbs laugh at such folly. The replacement sockets joke amongst themselves at our efforts to fix this situation. Most renegades that I see driving toward me usually have one DRL bulb out.

A 1978 Toyota Corolla could go its whole life with the same directional or marker light bulb.

I love this car, but my soul is gutted.

No other electric issues besides the lights. Drives fine, windows and wipers work, ebrake works, dash looks good. However all the lights are constantly flickering. Only an issue when the car is running; they work fine off the battery.
I’ve already replaced the battery and alternator but it didn’t help at all. Anyone ever see this before? My mechanic is stumped too.

I have a mechanic telling me one of my struts is bad in the rear. I have not felt any unusual bouncing, rough ride, or dipping upon breaking. None of the telltale signs. Is it just possible there were no symptoms of a bad strut? What are your experiences with your rear struts or even front struts? I’m new to this mechanic and I gotta figure out if he’s trustworthy or not. thank you.

I love this car, I really do.
It makes no sense why, but it has personality and charm that my old Toyota never had.
It’s weirdly spacious and comfortable while being a subcompact, it fits anywhere, I love the 4x4 and have even been off roading in a non trailhawk model without getting stuck. Shockingly capable. I love the way the car looks. Some features are so well thought out such as the cold weather package that only turns on the heated seats when it’s below freezing. I’m impressed.

But some design choices I do NOT understand.

Such as why on earth Jeep would spec chrome capped lugbolts from factory.

I went to go change my sway bar links and have lost two 17mm sockets to getting completely stuck on that stupid chrome cap that has swollen and changed sizes. I think my mistake was using an impact gun.

No idea how to get my sockets off the stupid bolts now. Any ideas?
Any other quirks I should know about from those that have wrenched on this thing before?

Hey everyone! I’m currently in the market for my first car, and I came across 2018 Jeep Renegade that is being sold for $9k. It’s a manual 4x4 with 75k miles on it. Do you guys think this is a good deal?

I look online and it says there is NOT one by mileage, but is that every 5 years you need to have your Renegade checked out to keep the lifetime warranty valid. Can anyone confirm or give details? Thanks!

Hey everyone, looking for a reliable alternative to UConnect that still allows climate control and car settings (door locks, etc). Does any such thing exist?