Owners have filed 13 complaints with NHTSA about this car, most about the electrical and airbags. The 8 checks below target those problems, in the order you would do them at the car.
2025Tick items off on your phone at the car, or print it. Ticks stay on this device.
0/8 checked
2025 Jeep Compass: inspection sheet
Before you go, or before you touch the car0/3
Engine off, key in hand0/1
Ask the seller not to warm the car up first0/3
At least 20 minutes, with some highway0/1
These checks are specific to this model year. For tires, body panels, fluids, and the other basics every used car needs, use the general inspection guide.
These years share the 2025's design and most of its parts, so their problems are the ones to look for on this car too.
Worth adding to your 2025 checks
Worth adding to your 2025 checks
Worth adding to your 2025 checks
EPA figures for each version of the 2025 Jeep Compass. Use them to confirm you are looking at the version that was advertised, and as a yardstick on the test drive.
| Version | Drive | EPA rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0L 4-cyl | AWD | 27 mpg |
NHTSA complaints for the 2025 Jeep Compass, grouped by the part owners named. Open a row to read what goes wrong.
Sudden loss of power while driving is the main pattern, sometimes at highway speed. Several warning lights come on at once, and safety features such as blind spot monitoring, forward collision warning, and automatic high beams report as unavailable. Some reports describe heavy steering, a black screen, or the car shutting off. A no-start is also reported at about 550 miles. Dealers often cannot duplicate the fault, and the failures come back. One repair was a battery replacement. In another case, the dealer found a failed main computer, and the replacement part was on back order.
An airbag near the steering column deploys in a low-speed collision, comes loose from the vehicle, and strikes the driver's legs, causing a wound that needs hospital care and surgery. That is the only injury report. The other complaint describes a deer strike at highway speed that leaves the car undrivable with no airbags deployed. Both complaints involve crashes. With only 2 on file, no broader pattern is visible yet.
Complaints for this year next to the average for the other model years, area by area.
The 2025 has the fewest owner complaints of the 8 Compass years we cover, well under the average of the others. Newer years have had less time to collect complaints, so compare like with like.
Redesigns and mid-cycle updates change what can go wrong.
The 2025 is the ninth model year of the Compass's second generation (2017–2026).
It includes the 2022 update.
What changed for 2022
Cars shoppers compare with the Jeep Compass, with their own 2025 checklists.
2025 owner complaints, side by side
