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2001 Jeep Wrangler air bags problems

20 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2001 Jeep Wrangler, which is 9% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
20 9% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
55,000 miles 11 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
11 and 0
Injuries and deaths
10 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air bags problems show up

Air bags complaints by mileage, 2001 Jeep Wrangler Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 55,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 0 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 6 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 3 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 0 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 0 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 1 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 55,000 miles
Based on 11 complaints that include mileage. 64% 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 miles0
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles6
60k to 80k miles3
80k to 100k miles0
100k to 120k miles0
120k to 140k miles1
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 11 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 55,000 miles, and 64% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 11 crashes, 10 injuries.

What owners wrote

My wife lost control of vehicle on city streets. She was going approximately 20 - 25 MPH. She went into a resident yard where she hit a 8 to 10" dia. Tree and went over it. She then continued across side street and into another yard where she came to a stop against another tree approx- 6 to 8" dia. The seat belt appears to have worked as expected but the airbag did not deploy. She hit her lip on the steering wheel and required many stitches to repair it. She also had large contusions on both of her shins.

December 2001 CrashInjury

Tl* the contact owns a 2001 jeep wrangler. The contact stated that while driving at various speed, the air bag warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to jacksonville chrysler dodge jeep ram arlington (9600 atlantic blvd, jacksonville, fl 32225) where it was diagnosed that the passenger air bag needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired however, years later the failure recurred. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 56,468.

Reported at 56,468 miles, January 2013

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