1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee problems
NHTSA has received 983 complaints about the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and 23% of them involve transmission. Next are brakes (13%) and cruise control (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 983 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Transmission 23% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 146 and 44
- Injuries and deaths
- 110 and 4
- Typical mileage
- 115,000 miles 112 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 4 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 3 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 7 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 5 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 17 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 21 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 15 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 12 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 7 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 6 |
| 200k+ miles | 15 |
What the data shows
Of the 112 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 115,000 miles. For transmission specifically, the median reported mileage is about 100,000 miles (13 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 146 complaints mention a crash; 44 complaints mention a fire; 110 injuries reported; 4 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 86% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1995 ranks 18th most-complained-about out of 34 model years of the Jeep Grand Cherokee with enough data (498 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 4 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Unintended acceleration; vehicle was in park with engine running at normal idle speed. Upon placing the vehicle into drive, it accelerated out of control, resulting in one fatality and 9 injuries.
On behalf of the owner, during frontal impact at 55 MPH or higher, the driver's side air bag did not deploy, causing a fatality to the driver.
In 1998 my A/C stopped cooling. I had it gased up and was told that there was a leak but it was repaired.this year in may I turned my A/C on only to find out that it is not cooling again this year. I called a jeep dealership and was told that the evaporation core was defective on some jeep models and that they would have to run a dye test to see if that was the problem. It is going to cost me $325.00 just to have the test done.
Fuel pump failure,towed to my local mechanic(not dealer).a new pump was installed and when the mechanic got it from the dealership,they said to look for algae in the tank.they did so,and there was none!I picked up the jeep and drove 40 miles only to have it stop running again.after having it towed back in again,only to find out another fuel pump had failed.the mechanic called the dealership to tell them of the second failure and to get a replacement;they told him to replace the tank along with the fuel pump…
The door jumper harness (p/n 5010265aa) caused the alarm to continually go off, the interior lights to flash off and on, and the radio to stop working. This is a constant fault on that year for vehicle due to the service manager at best buys in louisville, ky and other people I have spoken to that have this particular vehicle.