Other body or interior problem on the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee
6 crashes 2 fires 10 injuries 18 of the 548 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 body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other body or interior problem at a median of 69,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 90,000 miles, from 433 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 32,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 120,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 87,800 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.
13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,200 miles | 50,000 miles | 69,000 miles | 90,000 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, 6 a crash, 2 a fire and 10 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 $200–$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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 30 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 165,000 miles.
By volume the 2005 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Since I purchased the car in january I have had about a dozen incidents where upon fully depressing the brake the gas pedal was also pressed accelerating the car. The most frieghtening time was on the 12th. Where the car shot out into traffic and I had to swerve to avoid an accident. It is more likely to happen when wearing more bulky shoes. It is obvious that the brake and gas pedal are improperly located with respect to each other. I have driven many cars over my lifetime and this is the only car that has presented this problem. I intend to bring this problem to the attention of the dealer as well as chrysler. I have researched several other similar complaints.
Head restraint on my new jeep grand cherokee limited (2005) tilts forward a few inches (compared with my previous 2002 laredo). There is no adjustment to pull the head restraint back, only an up and down option. The head restraint is pushing my head forward instead of it being straight with my body as I drive the vehicle. This turtles the head and causes headaches. The manufacturer and jeep dealer have not provided a remedy or refund thus far.
High side AC valve showing signs of oil leaking around the capped valve. Upon repair it was discovered that the valve and the replaced tube are two assemblies and still leaked freon. Service dealer in trying to stop the leak turned off and discharged the freon with the customer standing in front of the vehicle. *jb
Also reported on the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other electrical problem
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Stalling while driving
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 548 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 433 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 69,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 90,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
548 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 4.2 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