Jeep Wrangler
What it says about you
Opinion
The doors come off, the roof comes off, and the ride is bad on purpose. You have been waved at by other Wranglers and you waved back.
Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.
23 model years on record, 15,842 complaints filed.
The years to look at closely: 2024 (4xe), 2018 (steering). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.
What owners report, and when
Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.
- tank 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 peak 47.5% of that year's complaints
- steering 2018, 2019 peak 55.4% of that year's complaints
- gas 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 peak 25.3% of that year's complaints
- abs 2015, 2016 peak 34.1% of that year's complaints
- train 2012, 2013 peak 29.9% of that year's complaints
- wheel 2018, 2019 peak 29.7% of that year's complaints
- violently 2007, 2008, 2009 peak 17% of that year's complaints
- play 2018, 2019 peak 14.4% of that year's complaints
Every year
- 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
- 2026 2 recalls 18 complaints
- 2025 4 recalls 191 complaints
- 2024 4xe 2,221 complaints
- 2023 14 recalls 337 complaints
- 2022 15 recalls 376 complaints
- 2021 15 recalls 901 complaints
- 2020 12 recalls 599 complaints
- 2019 9 recalls 729 complaints
- 2018 steering 1,800 complaints
- 2017 5 recalls 308 complaints
- 2016 5 recalls 455 complaints
- 2015 3 recalls 464 complaints
- 2014 4 recalls 651 complaints
- 2013 7 recalls 649 complaints
- 2012 10 recalls 830 complaints
- 2011 11 recalls 483 complaints
- 2010 11 recalls 685 complaints
- 2009 7 recalls 455 complaints
- 2008 9 recalls 1,255 complaints
- 2007 10 recalls 1,056 complaints
- 2006 3 recalls 730 complaints
- 2005 2 recalls 649 complaints
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.
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