My Jeep Patriot is slowly turning me into a mechanic

Thanks. With your help I fixed my 2013 Patriot. $30 total. Your video is the BEST.

A common problem is that the blend door actuator arm pin simply gets stuck in the channel. Tapping often frees it up and operation is restored (as what happened in my case). If tapping doesn't fix it, remove the actuator but keep the wires connected--then try activating it (by turning the temperature control knob on the dash while the heater fan is operating). It may spring back to life all on its own! I highly recommended that some gel-type lubricant be applied to the pin and channel to help prevent the same thing from quickly happening all over again (VGAPR recommends silicone paste, although if you don't have that, petroleum jelly would work and it's better than nothing). The whole job took me about 90 minutes. This simple troubleshooting saved me around $250 and a trip to the dealership!

Thank you for posting this. This was the same issue with my daughters 2014 Patriot. I was able to accomplish this in minimal time thanks to your directions. Greased the slide on the blender door and the pin on the actuator, problem resolved.

Glad i watched this video. Just turned on my heat for the first time in about 6 months last night since it was cold outside, and got only cold air. I knew it worked fine the last time I used it last winter. I was thinking I had a stuck open thermostat, or worse a plugged up heater core. So before I checked all that stuff I figured I would check what showed in this video. Sure enough the arm wasn't moving. I then just touched the arm, and it started moving. I then had heat. I applied grease to it, and all is well. I have a 2014 Jeep Patriot so everything was the same in the video. Thanks again!

This video was extremely helpful! Heat went out just as it started to get cold here in Indiana. Diagnosed and switched this out for a new one. $28 and 45 minutes later, it's working again. I have a 2015 Jeep patriot but this was perfect and not much different at all. Thanks so much!

My 2016 Jeep Patriot's heat went out when I tried to turn it on this winter, watched this video and had it fixed in like 5 minutes by tapping on the arm with a pair of pliers. Thanks!

Worked perfectly. I did the same thing today to my son's 2015 Jeep Patriot. After some grease it worked like a charm. Thank you!

Same problem on my 2015, Checked my motor, and it didn’t turn the arm at all even when I had the screws out. $20 replacement from Amazon and it’s working good as new. Thanks for the video!!

I had a hard time getting the screws back in, but I found that if you get in on the passenger side and lay across the seats you can better get to the screws. I used a short Phillips screwdriver.

Gonna check this out. Thanks man. This was helpful. Appreciate the time you took to film it.

TY, I took off that vent cover and it helped a great deal in being able to see what you are doing...

Thank you for posting this, I had no idea I would be able to fix the lack of heat on my patriot. You saved me at least a hundred dollar diagnostic fee if I had taken it to a mechanic.

Thanks for posting this, now I know exactly how to get to mine. Don't feel bad, I always break some tabs off working on car parts.

Best how to video on this issue. Followed his demo and got my heat working. Good Deal!

thank u.. mine was doing same thing.. went out looked added lil lube without disassembling actuator now it works.........!!!! and i have 2014 base model with 2.0 and its exactly same setup..😁 and it did help allot more to remove both dash pieces. . 15min was done...

Oh man so funny. I tried to find this a few weeks ago when I went to use my heater and it didn't work but I could only find other similar mechanisms for the other controls. Looking at this video I realized the problem, I been watching videos from other countries where the steering wheel is on the left which is not true from where I am from so I kept looking on the right side where my steering wheel is...... but this gear is still all on the left side where my glove box actually is. All fixed now, it was just jammed presumably from not being used for so long.

Thank you for this video, it was very helpful.

I will be trying this , my heat/defrost went out a few months ago.

Perfect tutorial 👌,gon check dis out ,thanks for sharing champ 😎🤙

Thank you

Nice job. I will see if it fixes my 2014 Jeep Compass Latitude.

Is there any other known fixes for this? I did this probably about a year and a half ago, but now I'm having the same issue again(Just in time for winter, of course.) Is the only fix for this just to keep lubricating it? Is there something that can lubricate for a longer lasting fix? I can't find much of anything on this except your video. Thanks.

My 2013 jeep patriot blows hot air from this spot. I rarely use the ac so don't know if it's that. Could it be yhe same problem?

Thank you. Have you any idea when the blower motor works only on first, second, third but not on fourth?

Would it be the same my air not getting cold?

Spring is broke on the blender door it should Pull down by itself

I only get air from defrost I wonder why

anyone know if the 2016 has the same set up? I don’t really know what I’m looking at

Hi does this work for 2009 Jeep patriots also

Mine makes a loud clicking when I first open the door. It goes away after about 3 - 4 seconds. it seems the sound is coming from that actuator.

Does the Patriot has 2 actuator? or only 1 on dashboard side?

I look on my 2007 jeep compass but there only like a bike cable there that does move with my switches I cant find where else can I look if there more mine blows cold on passenger and hot on drivers side could it be to low freon too

Hello, I need your advice about an issue on my 2010 jeep patriot 2.0 CRD (manual) already. Sometimes there are popping (or air blast) sounds coming from behind of air blower and behind of cluster area. While the sound stopped after about two seconds, the heater isn't blowing hot air. Considering the possibility of clogging somewhere in the system, I cleaned the heater radiator with using chemical but nothing changed. I think there is some air in the system but I couldn't find the reason. What would be the reason and what part I should focus on? Thank you., Selim

Is the 2016 the same

Just what i needed. Thank you bro

I get air from the floor not the front is that the same part the controls that?

My 2014 Patriot Sport is completely different...

Did the defrost light flash when you turned the vehicle on?

Don't listen to this guy telling you it's not that hard take it in. This is NOT something you can do yourself, and I'm not a complete amateur.