2007 Jeep Wrangler
This year drew an ordinary 1,056 complaints for a Jeep Wrangler — the model's median is 649. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.1% of them mention gas, against 3.4% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Jeep Wrangler was redesigned for 2007. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,056 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 649 |
| Involving a crash | 24 |
| Involving a fire | 32 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 16.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- gas — 21.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the other years of this generation (6.2×).
- fuel — 18.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the other years of this generation (5.4×).
- violently — 17% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: violently, front end, shake, shake violently.
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
WHEN DRIVING OVER A POT HOLE OR ANY UNEVEN ROAD SURFACE, THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WOULD SHAKE VIOLENTLY. THE FAILURE RECURRED WHEN THE CONTACT WAS TRAVELING 45 MPH OR ABOVE. THE CONTACT WOULD HAVE TO STOP DRIVING MOMENTARILY IN ORDER TO STOP THE SHAKING FA…
THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WOULD SHAKE VIOLENTLY WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER NUMEROUS TIMES FOR THE FAILURE. THE DEALER REPLACED THE STEERING STABILIZER SEVERAL TIMES BUT THE FAILURE WAS NOT CORRECTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE W…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V290000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 13E010000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 09E044000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 09V436000 POWER TRAIN
- 08V202000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 10V236000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 07V291000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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