Other driver assistance problem on the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee
2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 11 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 driver assistance problem gets reported
Owners of the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee report other driver assistance problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 60,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 53,595 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.
56% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,805 miles | 12,000 miles | 22,227 miles | 46,582 miles | 58,400 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 $250–$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 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 240,000 miles.
By volume the 2014 carries the most reports, with 44; the 2016 has 11. 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.
When I braked for pedestrians, the auto stop feature turned off engine as I entered a sloped parking space. After pedestrians cleared, I depressed the accelerator. When the engine eventually restarted, the car surged forward and hit a wall at the end of the parking space---damaging the bumper.
Death wobble when being towed the dealer is no help on this problem because they do not have a service bulletin on the 2016 jeep grand cherokee, but there on 2014 and 2015 cherokee. I need to get jeep to fix this problem. 2016 is first year for grand cherokee to have electronic steering which was the cause of the same thing happening. 2014 - 2015 jeep fixed it with a new harness adapter that send power to the steering with the ignition off. Jeep said when enough people complain we then may come up with a similar fix". Only has happened to a few grand cherokees. This of course is not acceptable to me. This is bad and need to be address asap. This could cause a crash and someone could get killed. When the jeep is being towed and you hit bump while turning it starts wobbling from side to side so bad it will cause you to not be able to control the towing vehicle. Once you stop and then take of it stops wobbling.
I own a 2016 jeep grand cherokee summit 4x4 SUV which was manufactured and marketed by fca ua llc as being a recreational towing (I.e. Behind motorhome) compliant vehicle. When towing of the subject vehicle behind my motorhome at low speeds I have experienced periods of the violent loss of control in the form of uncontrolled steering of the vehicle's front wheels which pose a significant safety risk to both the vehicle, motorhome and public safety. In such events, I have been forced to stop in traffic, inspect the vehicle and motorhome, then pull off the road to a safe location where further inspection can be undertaken. The conditions described above have occurred when the vehicle was properly prepared for towing and following the specific guidelines supplied with the vehicle in the fca vehicle operator/owner's manual pages 593-601. Fca has advised that is has insufficient evidence in the form of consumer complaints to support further investigation, engineering and issuances of a solution for such vehicle owners. Numerous other owners who own and recreationally tow the same vehicle are experiencing the stated problem which is not…
Also reported on the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
Other electrical problem
Other fuel system problem
Other brake problem
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 11 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 driver assistance problem happen on the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other driver assistance problem on the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee?
11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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