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Electrical · 3 owner reports

Wiring harness or short circuit on the 2019 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 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$3,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 39th

When wiring harness or short circuit gets reported

There are 3 reports of wiring harness or short circuit on the 2019 Jeep Wrangler. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 39th 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 $400–$3,500 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 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 45,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 1998 carries the most reports, with 15; the 2019 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 wiring harness or short circuit 68k
  2. 1998 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 72k
  3. 1999 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 90k
  4. 2000 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 145k
  5. 2001 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 200k
  6. 2003 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 141k
  7. 2004 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 30k
  8. 2005 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 44k
  9. 2008 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 67k
  10. 2009 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 111k
  11. 2010 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  12. 2011 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 80k
  13. 2012 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 81k
  14. 2013 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 43k
  15. 2014 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 80k
  16. 2015 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  17. 2016 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  18. 2018 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2019 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  20. 2020 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 76k
  21. 2021 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit 87k
  22. 2022 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2023 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2024 Jeep Wrangler wiring harness or short circuit
    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

This page is kept out of search results because 3 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 3 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