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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.

Vehicle
2012 JEEP WRANGLER
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER
State
Michigan
Mileage
80,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2012 Jeep Wrangler. The contact stated while driving 70 MPH, the front passenger’s 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 passenger’s 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.