2016 Jeep Renegade

In the past year, I have already had to replace the bulb for the "daytime running light" on the front passenger side of my Renegade. Now, the light has just popped back onto my dashboard for the 3rd time stating that the light is out again for the 3rd time in a year. I have also noticed several other Renegades in my area driving with the same exact light out on their vehicle as well. The first 2 times I took my vehicle to my mechanic to be repaired, both times they stated all they found was the bulb not working. Being the 3rd time, they have advised me to reach out about a recall to have this fixed.

The indoor cloth paneling is peeling off due to cheap adhesive materials used by Jeep manufacturers. The filament inside the cloth paneling is falling out and getting in the air I am breathing in the car. I looked online and it seems this is a problem with many 2015-2017 Jeep Renegades and is said to be a design/material defect. This should be a recall. The head lights and right side parking light flicker and sometimes don’t come on. This may be an electrical issue that other 2015-2017 Jeep Renegade owners document having as well. The dealer wants to charge hundreds of dollars for these repairs when they are Jeep brand defects.

While driving around I suddenly got an alert from the car that the driver's side back up light, left turn signal light/rear tail light was no longer functioning. I had to drive around without people driving behind me knowing of any intent to turn left, which was a safety issue. I took it to an independent mechanic who replaced the bulbs and everything was back to normal, but only for 30 minutes. The same thing happened again on my drive home and I had to turn around to take it back to the mechanic. Upon further investigation, the mechanic noted that the connector for the light was burnt out and thus, causing a faulty connection, that had nothing to do with the lights themselves, and that could fail at any time. In trying to get a new connector, the mechanic found that they are on backorder, presumably because this is an issue being faced by numerous jeep renegade owners. So now, even if I wanted to fix the problem, I can't, which again, is a safety issue.

While running some errands, I put my left turn signal on to change lanes, and I immediately got a dashboard indication that the rear turn signal lamp was out. Curiously enough, I also had a running light out, back up light out, and brake light out indication. I went to a local parts store and purchased two correct bulbs and upon returning home, I replaced them. Didn't fix the problem. After some though, I googled 2016 Jeep Renegade tail light issues and sure enough I got several hits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2p-cHXBEAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhEzVL0Bcns https://www.carproblemzoo.com/jeep/renegade/tail-light-switch-problems.php I went back and looked at the connector to my tail light, and it was in fact burnt (no corrosion) on both the tail light assembly and the mating connector. (I did not take pictures of my connectors because it looks just like the ones in the videos) After the dealer service associate claimed ignorance of the issue and said they would have to replace the whole tail light assembly, and the wiring harness at my cost since the car is out of warranty, I chose to fix the problem myself and it now it works fine. I see this as a known safety issue and genuinely believe Jeep Inc. should recall all 2016 (and perhaps other years as well) and fix this problem at there cost.

The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Renegade. The contact stated while parking the vehicle the contact noticed that the headlights were inoperable. The contact replaced the headlight bulbs; however, the headlights remained inoperable. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the contact was informed that water was entering the headlight housings which caused dame to the wiring. The contact was informed that the wiring needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and stated that the vehicle needed to be taken to the dealer to be repaired. The failure mileage was 85,000.

After work I got in my renegade Trailhawk and turned it on as usual to go home. Upon starting up the vehicle, warning lights came on telling me the headlights, tail lights, blinkers, daytime lights, tag lights, parking lights and back up lights were not working or out. I got out and inspected them only to see they were in fact all still functioning as should be. I got someone from the dealership to look at the issue and was told it would be alright, but definitely get the service department to look at it in the morning. I am having it inspected today by the service department and hopefully the issue will be resolved. As an update on this particular issue, I took the Renegade to the Service department the next morning and after just a few minutes I was informed this would be remedied within less than 15 -20 minutes. Apparently there was a new update to the system that was installed by the awesomely knowledgeable crew at Marshall CDJR and I haven’t had any of the same issues since.

Parking/Daylight continually goes out after repeated replacement of the bulb. I will have the vehicle available upon request. I have had it inspected by the dealer and third party services each and every time all they do is replace the bulb. It's only been 1 month since I last had the bulb replaced (But I've had it replaced 3 times this year). Additionally, I found a forum of people also complaining about their jeep renegades with the same exact issue: https://www.jeeprenegadeforum.com/threads/parking-light-daytime-running-lights-out.50874/ Seems to be a widespread problem stemming from faulty wiring from the manufacturer. Surprised there hasn't already been a recall.