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Other visibility problem on the 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee

1 injury 1 of the 9 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.

Reports of this failure 9
With an odometer reading 9
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 56%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $150–$1,400
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 23rd

When other visibility problem gets reported

Owners of the 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other visibility problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 1,600 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 23rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 700 miles at the tenth percentile to 85,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 83,100 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.

56% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 9 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
700 miles 1,600 miles 19,000 miles 58,000 miles 83,800 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 an injury 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 $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 2007 has 9. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 50k
  3. 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 81k
  4. 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 83k
  5. 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 92k
  6. 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 77k
  7. 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 70k
  8. 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 65k
  9. 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 55k
  10. 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 64k
  11. 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 75k
  12. 2007 (this one) 19k
  13. 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 58k
  14. 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 25k
  15. 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 51k
  16. 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 54k
  17. 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 2k
  18. 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 25k
  19. 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 31k
  20. 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 13k
  22. 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 26k
  23. 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 2k
  24. 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 2k
  25. 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 2k
  26. 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 40k
  27. 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem 3k
  28. 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

The auto up-down for windows goes up then down the up then down, and continues like this. It might be possible to get your hand caught in the window or district the driver while trying to fix the problem or you must leave the window open and hope the car does not get stolen or damaged. The dealer stated that the parts to fix this problem was currently under review by the legal department of jeep, and they were trying to keep this problem a low profile before the government found out. *ak

700 miles NHTSA complaint 628747 filed 2007-06-28

The auto up/down feature for the drivers side power window does not work. When using the button, the window will go up a bit then back down, then up and down. Could potentially be a problem in that the window will not close. Will take vehicle to dealer tomorrow. *tr

1,600 miles NHTSA complaint 645137 filed 2007-11-06

The auto up/down feature for the drivers side power window does not work. When using the button, the window will go up a bit then back down, then up and down. Could potentially be a problem in that the window will not close. *tr

1,865 miles NHTSA complaint 645832 filed 2007-11-12

Also reported on the 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Other electrical problem

446 reports median 78k

Other engine problem

151 reports median 70k

Other powertrain problem

123 reports median 50k

Stalling while driving

57 reports median 65k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 9 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 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee?

Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 1,600 miles and a quarter after 60,000 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 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee?

9 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