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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2019 Jeep Wrangler

1 fire 1 of the 28 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 28
With an odometer reading 18
Reports per 1,000 built 1.7 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 100%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 8th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

Owners of the 2019 Jeep Wrangler report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 15,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 20,000 miles, from 18 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 600 miles at the tenth percentile to 25,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 23,479 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.

100% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 18 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
621 miles 2,900 miles 13,750 miles 19,500 miles 24,100 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 a fire 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 $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 2019 has 28. 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 Jeep Wrangler other wheel or tire problem
    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 (this one) 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 2019 Jeep Wrangler

Other steering problem

352 reports median 2k

Other suspension problem

118 reports median 11k

Other electrical problem

54 reports median 12k

Other powertrain problem

48 reports median 37k

ABS module or sensor failure

42 reports median 32

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 28 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2019 Jeep Wrangler?

Across 18 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 15,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 20,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2019 Jeep Wrangler?

28 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.7 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