2018 JEEP WRANGLER — Complaint #1851277
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:INTERIOR PANELS:SUN VISOR filed November 1, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1851277 (ODI reference 11491854) concerns a 2018 JEEP WRANGLER and was filed on November 1, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 29, 2022. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:interior panels:sun visor, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same JEEP WRANGLER cohort independently describe similar structure:interior panels:sun visor failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 JEEP WRANGLER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Driver side sun visor has a failed connection to the vehicle frame, resulting in the visor falling down in front of the driver's field of view. This happened spontaneously and nearly resulted in a crash. This is an issue many owners of Jeep Wrangler JLs have experienced. The design of this connection has not changed. Please reference these Jeep owner websites for more examples. https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/sun-visor-broken.37957/page-21 https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/sun-visor-fix.44865/
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1851277 |
| ODI Number | 11491854 |
| Date Filed | November 1, 2022 |
| Failure Date | October 29, 2022 |
| VIN | 1C4HJXEG0JW |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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