2015 Jeep Patriot Body and structure Problems

“...has there been a recall issued on the Jeep Patriot concerning the rear hatch allowing water into the rear latch causing the interior lights to remain on? My wife had this happen and the interior lights caused her problems with driving at night until the repair was made. My mechanic stated that he had to perform this fix on 5 jeeps within a month. I contacted chrysler about this and the employee stated that they had several complaints about this as well...”

“I only owned the car for one week and there were only 156 miles on the car. When I got in my car after work today (the first rainy day since I picked up the vehicle a week ago) there was water all over the radio, console, gear shift, dashboard and also on the seats and floor. Water was leaking into the car from the interior lights located right above the dashboard. The cd player was making a clicking noise and saying load cd or eject cd and would just go on and off sporadically as I drove to the Jeep dealer. …”

“The second to the last day of hunting season my husband. And I went up above our house, about 15 miles, we were in light snow, and I could not get the throttle to engage caused us to slide back a little again tried to use throttle to go, my husband saw a wisp of smoke on passenger side, I immediately turned the engine off, my husband looks under where the smoke came from and the rack n pinion boot where on fire, I popped the hood, flames were to hot for him to open the hood. I walked down the road to safety, as my husband got out what he could of our belongings out and into the snow bank. …”

“The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Patriot. On rainy days, water entered from the gasket into the rear center of the vehicle. The failure damaged the roof liner and interior lighting. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the leak was emitting from the antenna. The antenna was replaced. The failure recurred and it was diagnosed that the gasket was leaking. The gasket was repaired with a sealant, but the failure recurred. It was diagnosed again that the gasket was leaking and it was resealed. The failure recurred and the vehicle was not repaired. …”

“Shortly after purchase of new 015 Jeep Patriot, water started to penetrate inside of car. Oming through front interior lamp. Took to dealership, found out clog in drain of sunroof. 'fixed' then appx 6 months later, sae leak started. Tried a diffrent dealership trying to actually get it fixed for good, they said it was 'fixed' but problem happened again. This continued for three yeas. Brought to 3-4 dealerships plus had 2 private techs looked at it. …”