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Drivetrain · 5 owner reports

Differential or transfer case failure on the 2024 Jeep Wrangler

1 fire 1 of the 5 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.

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 5
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $900–$4,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 43rd

When differential or transfer case failure gets reported

There are 5 reports of differential or transfer case failure on the 2024 Jeep Wrangler. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 43rd 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

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 $900–$4,200 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 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2002, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 130,000 miles.

By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 14; the 2024 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 differential or transfer case failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1998 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 96k
  3. 1999 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 70k
  4. 2000 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 61k
  5. 2001 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 130k
  6. 2002 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 102
  7. 2003 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 22k
  8. 2004 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 73k
  9. 2005 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 75k
  10. 2006 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 23k
  11. 2007 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 35k
  12. 2008 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 47k
  13. 2009 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 30k
  14. 2010 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 120k
  15. 2011 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 22k
  16. 2012 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 41k
  17. 2013 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 10k
  18. 2014 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 50k
  19. 2015 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 29k
  20. 2016 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2017 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 11k
  22. 2018 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 23k
  23. 2019 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 13k
  24. 2020 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2021 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure 2k
  26. 2022 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2024 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2026 Jeep Wrangler differential or transfer case failure
    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 2024 Jeep Wrangler

Other engine problem

187 reports median 46k

Other electrical problem

141 reports median 90k

Infotainment screen failure

120 reports median 42k

Software fault or failed update

118 reports median 50k

Other powertrain problem

83 reports median 53k

Other fuel system problem

60 reports median 67k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 5 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 5 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