2012 JEEP WRANGLER — Complaint #1909242
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER filed July 12, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1909242 (ODI reference 11531835) concerns a 2012 JEEP WRANGLER and was filed on July 12, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 19, 2021. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:caliper, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:caliper 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 2012 JEEP WRANGLER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2012 Jeep Wrangler. The contact stated while driving 70 MPH, the front passengerâs side brakes locked up without warning. The contact was able to drive the vehicle to the residence. The vehicle was not diagnosed. The dealer was contacted and stated that the vehicle needed to be diagnosed. The contact replaced the front passengerâs side caliper however, the failure recurred. The contact also replaced the front brake lines. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 80,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1909242 |
| ODI Number | 11531835 |
| Date Filed | July 12, 2023 |
| Failure Date | December 19, 2021 |
| VIN | 1C4AJWAG5CL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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