Other brake problem on the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee
4 crashes 1 injury 5 of the 106 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 brake problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other brake problem at a median of 17,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 27,500 miles, from 25 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 2,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 52,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 50,280 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.
80% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,320 miles | 4,600 miles | 18,000 miles | 27,000 miles | 51,600 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, 4 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 $300–$1,800 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 29 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 2011 carries the most reports, with 202; the 2013 has 106. 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.
On 4 separate times I attempted to slow the vehicle on the highway, applied the brake pedal and the pedal was locked/frozen. I brought the vehicle to the dealer I bought it from, they didn't find a problem gave me the car back. I called jeep they told me to bring it to another dealer, I did. I left the car there 10 days they told me they could not replicate the problem so there was nothing they could do or jeep/chrysler could do. I drove the car home from the dealer and the exact problem happened 20 minutes after leaving there. I will not drive this car anymore.. The braking system is defective. I had two other people test drive the car and they experienced the same issue. *tr
I have had this issue occur a few times on the highway. The speeds are generally between 40-60 MPH. When I put my foot on the brake, it is as though it is locked or frozen. Each time it has begun to work after a few times releasing my foot from the brake, but it is worrisome. I became more worried when I noticed that a couple of other people have reported the same issue. It certainly does not happen all the time, but that it happens at all is concerning when we are talking about braking at highway speed. *tr
I was backing my jeep grand cherokee 2013 with 2410 miles down my driveway slight slant in reverse and the jeep wouldn't stop when I applied the brakes. Scary as heck. I pumped the brakes and pressed as hard as I could but it seemed the jeep just kept running and moving ignoring the brakes I was pushing. Finally 60 feet later after pumping hard the car stopped in the middle of the street. I could have have killed someone or been injured my self. For a few seconds there in reverse I had no control of my jeep. Scary. The jeep ignored the brake pedal and kept going. *tr
Also reported on the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other electrical problem
Fuel pump failure
Alternator or charging system failure
No-start or intermittent start failure
Other body or interior problem
Other engine problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 106 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 brake problem happen on the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 25 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 17,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 27,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
106 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