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2008 Jeep Liberty electrical system problems

Owners reported electrical system problems in 126 complaints for the 2008 Jeep Liberty, 16% of the complaints on file. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
126 16% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
91,000 miles 108 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 1
Injuries and deaths
7 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Electrical system complaints by mileage, 2008 Jeep Liberty Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 91,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 6 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 9 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 12 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 12 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 30 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 13 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 9 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 9 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 2 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 5 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 91,000 miles
Based on 108 complaints that include mileage. 25% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles6
20k to 40k miles9
40k to 60k miles12
60k to 80k miles12
80k to 100k miles30
100k to 120k miles13
120k to 140k miles9
140k to 160k miles9
160k to 180k miles2
180k to 200k miles5
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 108 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 91,000 miles, and 25% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 1 fire, 7 injuries.

What owners wrote

This cars tipm system is extremely faulty I've had it fixed 3 already and it still acts as of it is possessed. This happened on the freeway where the car started going off by it's self stalled and couldn't do anything about it. I almost died. There has been many complaints about this vehicles tipm system but jeep refuses to recall them. Also the airbags do not deploy. This is a huge safety issue

Reported at 200,105 miles, November 2020 CrashInjury

Vehicle shuts off while driving without notice and will not start right away leave set for a 1/2 hour or so and it starts back up but horn blows wipers come on and doors will not unlock automatically this could be a real problem if in an accident due to shutting off on the freeway and I can not exit the vehicle.I was told that the problem is in the (tipm) and that there have been many problems with this but there is no recall. This in my opinion is a huge safety concern.

Reported at 160,000 miles, March 2015

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