2006 Jeep Wrangler
This year drew an ordinary 730 complaints for a Jeep Wrangler — the model's median is 649. What they were about is the unusual part: 47.5% of them mention tank, against 1.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 730 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 649 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tank — 47.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the model's other years (29.2×).
- fill — 31% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (59.2×). Owners wrote it as: fill, time fill, fill gas, fill tank.
- fuel — 41.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (12.1×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
EVERY SINGLE TIME I FILL UP THE GAS TANK ON MY 2006 JEEP WRANGLER TJ UNLIMITED, THE FUEL SHOOTS OUT OF THE TANK BECAUSE THE NOZZLE STOP MUST BE SET TO SHUT OFF HIGHER THAN THE JEEP FUEL TANK WILL ALLOW FOR IT TO FILL. I HAVE EVEN TRIED TO TRICKLE FUEL IN AT TH…
EVERY TIME I FILL THE TANK ON MY JEEP, IT DUMPS FUEL WHEN IT IS FULL. USUALLY SPRAYING ALL OVER ME AND THE SIDE OF THE JEEP.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V222000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 06V147000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 05V460000 POWER TRAIN
How this was worked out
Every year of the Jeep Wrangler was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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