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Other wheel or tire problem on the 1998 Jeep Wrangler

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 4
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 1.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 29th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

There are 4 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 1998 Jeep Wrangler. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 29th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

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 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 20 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 90,000 miles.

By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 55; the 1998 has 0. 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. 1997 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 66k
  2. 1998 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1999 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 43k
  4. 2000 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 89k
  5. 2001 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 120k
  6. 2002 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 995
  7. 2003 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 80k
  8. 2004 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 25k
  9. 2005 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 37k
  10. 2006 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 36k
  11. 2007 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 45k
  12. 2008 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 46k
  13. 2009 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 36k
  14. 2010 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 31k
  15. 2011 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 34k
  16. 2012 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 2k
  17. 2013 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 35k
  18. 2014 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 58k
  19. 2015 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 12k
  20. 2016 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 20k
  21. 2017 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 9k
  22. 2018 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 7k
  23. 2019 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 14k
  24. 2020 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 20
  25. 2021 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 18k
  26. 2022 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem 350
  27. 2023 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2024 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire 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

Also reported on the 1998 Jeep Wrangler

Seat belt or retractor failure

22 reports median 60k

Exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin

20 reports median 57k

Instrument cluster or gauge failure

17 reports median 78k

Other electrical problem

17 reports median 65k

Other powertrain problem

16 reports median 56k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 4 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 4 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.

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