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Brakes · 1 owner report

Other brake problem on the 2026 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 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$1,800
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 10th

When other brake problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other brake problem on the 2026 Jeep Wrangler. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 10th 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 $300–$1,800 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 26 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 1,800 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 160,000 miles.

By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 36; the 2026 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 brake problem 139k
  2. 1998 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1999 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 88k
  4. 2000 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 31k
  5. 2001 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2002 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 144k
  7. 2003 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 2k
  8. 2004 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 16k
  9. 2005 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 13k
  10. 2006 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 25k
  11. 2007 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 33k
  12. 2008 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 59k
  13. 2009 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 60k
  14. 2010 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 47k
  15. 2011 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 140k
  16. 2012 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 65k
  17. 2013 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 72k
  18. 2014 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 28k
  19. 2015 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 46k
  20. 2016 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 37k
  21. 2017 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 33k
  22. 2018 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 7k
  23. 2019 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 6k
  24. 2020 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 26k
  25. 2021 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 30k
  26. 2022 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 159k
  27. 2023 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 18k
  28. 2024 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 80k
  29. 2025 Jeep Wrangler other brake problem 28k
  30. 2026 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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Also reported on the 2026 Jeep Wrangler

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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