Other visibility problem on the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee
2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 150 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 visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other visibility problem at a median of 77,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 57,000 miles and a quarter after 97,000 miles, from 121 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 48,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 120,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 72,000 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
3% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48,000 miles | 57,162 miles | 77,000 miles | 97,000 miles | 120,000 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, 2 a crash and 1 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 $150–$1,400 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 1,900 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 92,500 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 183; the 2001 has 150. 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.
Driver side power window suddenly stopped working at 43,553 and chrysler refuses to correct obvious defect. I have relatives with same year model that had same problem as well when I spoke to serviceman at local dealership he told me they see this problem often.*ak
Driver side window feel and would not go up. 23208 miles on truck and the dealer replaced regulator, in accordance with service order. One year later same thing happen to the other side with 32240 miles on the truck. Of course this one is out of pocket expence. This is without a doubt manufacture defect and needs to be corrected by the manufacture of the truck and not the consumer. I have also had front brake rotors changed by the dealer twice until I purchased after market pads and rotors to fix the brakes myself. No problem with brakes for two years now.*ak
Between july 2003 and today, my 2001 jeep cherokee laredo has "popped and dropped" 3 windows (I.e. The regulator motor broke and the window dropped into the door leaving me unable to roll up the window) - first the front passenger side window last august, then the left rear passenger window in november, and today the driver side front window. The first was covered under warrantee, but the second two were under extended warranty with a $100 copay for each incident. Avondale chrysler jeep in arizona completed the first two repairs and is in the process of repairing the third incident.*ak
Also reported on the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other body or interior problem
Premature brake pad or rotor wear
Other powertrain problem
Other brake problem
Blower motor or climate control failure
Heater core failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 150 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 visibility problem happen on the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 121 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 77,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 57,000 miles and a quarter after 97,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
150 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.2 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