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Steering · 58 owner reports

Other steering problem on the 2022 Jeep Wrangler

Reports of this failure 58
With an odometer reading 9
Reports per 1,000 built 0.8 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 89%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $350–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 2nd

When other steering problem gets reported

Owners of the 2022 Jeep Wrangler report other steering problem at a median of 10,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 50,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 45,006 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.

89% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 9 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
2,594 miles 5,000 miles 8,000 miles 23,000 miles 47,600 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

Putting it right typically runs $350–$2,400 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 27 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 300 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 125,000 miles.

By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 942; the 2022 has 58. 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 steering problem 75k
  2. 1998 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 127k
  3. 1999 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 2000 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 68k
  5. 2001 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 95k
  6. 2002 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 38k
  7. 2003 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 40k
  8. 2004 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 48k
  9. 2005 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 40k
  10. 2006 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 25k
  11. 2007 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 52k
  12. 2008 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 50k
  13. 2009 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 45k
  14. 2010 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 45k
  15. 2011 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 37k
  16. 2012 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 24k
  17. 2013 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 19k
  18. 2014 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 16k
  19. 2015 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 14k
  20. 2016 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 50k
  21. 2017 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 29k
  22. 2018 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 5k
  23. 2019 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 2k
  24. 2020 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 290
  25. 2021 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 17k
  26. 2022 (this one) 8k
  27. 2023 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 14k
  28. 2024 Jeep Wrangler other steering problem 125k
  29. 2025 Jeep Wrangler other steering 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 2022 Jeep Wrangler

Other electrical problem

93 reports median 23k

Other engine problem

53 reports median 6k

Other powertrain problem

47 reports median 15k

Other suspension problem

39 reports median 5k

Other fuel system problem

33 reports median 36k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 58 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 steering problem happen on the 2022 Jeep Wrangler?

Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other steering problem on the 2022 Jeep Wrangler?

58 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.8 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