Other speed control problem on the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
15 crashes 7 injuries 22 of the 46 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other speed control problem at a median of 80,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 14 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 125,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 89,640 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
7% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36,960 miles | 48,000 miles | 78,500 miles | 95,000 miles | 126,600 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 15 a crash and 7 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 28 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 2,300 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 58; the 2000 has 46. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
2000 jeep grand cherokee stalls at stop lights and in stop and go traffic. Also accelerates on its own at stops..very dangerous. When it happens it also lunges forward while driving, and steering will lock up. *nlm
I was pulling into a parking place at work. I had just turned left into the parking lot and had applied the brake to slow. I moved about five parking spots up and applying my brake again turned into the parking. During this time I had not taken my foot off of the brake pedal, only decreased the pressure. When I applied pressure to come to a full stop the car suddenly sounded like a jet engine and took off, going through a brick wall, traveling across about twelve to twenty feet of yard and plowed into the side of a house. I know that my foot was firmly on the brake and not near the accelerator pedal. Needless to say I am extremely afraid to drive this car. I had purchased this 2000 jeep grand cherokee from a chrysler dealer on april 16, 2003 and for the first six months had no problems with the vehicle. *la
The vehicle slipped out of gear when the consumers foot was not on the brake. The vehicle also had a problem with sudden and unexpected acceleration. *jb the vehicle crashed into another vehicle in reverse then hit a steel pole which stopped the vehicle. The consumer requested reimbursement. *sc *jb
Also reported on the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other body or interior problem
Premature brake pad or rotor wear
Other brake problem
Other powertrain problem
Radiator or coolant leak
Other engine problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 46 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other speed control problem happen on the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 14 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 80,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
46 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed