Federal complaint record · Jeep Grand Cherokee · model year 2008

2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Owners submitted 733 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 90th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 48% · group n = 475Engine · 15% · group n = 146Powertrain · 8% · group n = 78Other · 4% · group n = 44Airbags · 4% · group n = 40
733
Complaint records on file
74,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 508 complaints reported mileage
48%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 475
90th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 36 model years

Electrical · 5 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Electrical48%

Electrical reports

Jeep Grand Cherokee · model year 2008

Reports in this group475
Share of classified reports48%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2007
0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,108 matched incidents
This car
2008
0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
733 matched incidents
2009
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
138 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Electrical faults · 229 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 32008 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Stalling or shutdown · 196 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32008 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Brake performance · 36 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32008 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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