Turn signal stalk not working correctly.
High beams are worse than low beams.
This rental Patriot is not a good vehicle. The seats are terrible, no support and too small. The road noise is very annoying. The engine is very under powered for this 2wd model, gas mileage is not very good ~ 19 hwy. The handling is far worse than the last Jeep Liberty I rented. Overall, this Jeep is made cheap and it rattles.
I would never judge any vehicle by my experience with a rental. Rental cars are commonly abused, which makes them poor cars to use as a rating sample.
Just because it's a rental car wouldn't make the seats uncomfortable or the cabin noisy; these are design flaws that have nothing to do with the condition of the car. The fact is, Chrysler is a couple of steps behind every other automaker these days. Sad but true.
I agree with both of the last comments. Chrysler is behind. But my brother in law who works for one of the Big Three also tells me that cars made for rental agencies often have a number of modifications for making the cars cheaper, like leaving out sound insulation and less fuel efficient engineers, not as good transmissions, etc. Some say it is a huge marketing blunder; experience with rentals does form a lot of people's opinions.
I have 30,000 miles on my Patriot and I love it. It is a great, well made reliable car.
19 mpg highway? What?! Are you doing like 150+MPH or something? LOL!
I respectfully disagree with the comments on the fuel economy being poor. I've never gotten less than 25MPG and typically closer to 30MPG, even in mixed driving and 31+ on the highway. Not a luxury car, but reasonably comfortable and not noisy unless you push it. If you're driving it hard, its probably rather noisy and sucks up gas. I admit I'm easy on it -- I pretty much stick to the speed limits. I wanted an economical crossover and I think I've got it.
My wife bought a 2008 Jeep Patriot it has leaked from day one.
Water pours inside when it rains, we have taken it back,
four or five times. I am having problems still.
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