Other wheel or tire problem on the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1 crash 1 of the 10 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 wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 155,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 200,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 31st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 225,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 210,615 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.
40% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13,625 miles | 22,801 miles | 157,324 miles | 200,000 miles | 224,240 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, 1 a crash is 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 $200–$1,500 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 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 190,000 miles.
By volume the 1996 carries the most reports, with 32; the 2004 has 10. 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.
Dt*: the contact stated the tire tread was worn to 3/64 on all four tires after only 10,000 of use. The tires had been rotated by the service dealer and proper pressure had been maintained. The problem was first noticed by the contact who took the vehicle to the service dealer for inspection. The service dealer was unable to determine what caused the wear and recommend taking the vehicle to the tire dealer for inspection. The vehicle was taken to the tire dealer who was also unable to determine what caused the wear, but recommended replacing the tires. Updated 7/5/2006 - *nm
The side walls on all the goodyear wrangler st tires on my jeep have dry rot. While driving on a interstate, late at night, one of the tires blow through the side wall. Due to a slow leak in one of the other tires in the area of the side wall, sullivan tire, a local goodyear tire dealer, inspected the tires and advised me that all the tires had some degree of dry rot in the vicinity of the side wall (a possible quality control problem) and they should be replaced. Sullivan tire is contacting goodyear for instructions on the replacements. *nm
Tl*- the contact stated that while driving his 2004 jeep grand cherokee (24303 failure mileage) the front tires keep loosing air. The vehicle had been taken to a dealer who stated that tires were fine, but the rims were corroded. The two front tires were replaced. The contact stated that the same deflating happened to the rear tires. The current mileage was 36,000. Air was leaking around the bead. Updated 06/06/07. *jb
Also reported on the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other body or interior problem
Other visibility problem
Premature brake pad or rotor wear
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 155,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 25,000 miles and a quarter after 200,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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