Jeep CJ5: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Jeep CJ5, model years 1972 to 1982. NHTSA has 2 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 10 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 Jeep CJ5 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 13,532 |
| 1981 Jeep CJ5 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 478 |
| 1979 Jeep CJ5 | 2 | 1 | 500% | 1,537 |
| 1978 Jeep CJ5 | 2 | 1 | 500% | 99,659 |
| 1977 Jeep CJ5 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 96,933 |
| 1976 Jeep CJ5 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 220,107 |
| 1975 Jeep CJ5 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 104,316 |
| 1974 Jeep CJ5 | 2 | 0 | 0% | 21,006 |
| 1973 Jeep CJ5 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1,918 |
| 1972 Jeep CJ5 | 3 | 0 | 0% | 28,094 |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
2 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Steering | 500 | 1 |
| Power Train | 500 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Grand Cherokee128 campaigns
- Wrangler92 campaigns
- Liberty30 campaigns
- Cherokee93 campaigns
- Commander13 campaigns
- Patriot10 campaigns
- Wrangler 4-DR 4X41 campaign
- Compass27 campaigns
- Wrangler 2-DR 4X40 campaigns
- Renegade13 campaigns
- Laredo0 campaigns
- Commander 4X40 campaigns
- Patriot 4X41 campaign
- Compass 4X41 campaign
- Patriot FWD0 campaigns
- Wrangler Sahara0 campaigns
- Commander 4X20 campaigns
- Wrangler 4-DR 4X20 campaigns
- Wagoneer49 campaigns
- Compass FWD0 campaigns
- Comanche11 campaigns
- Grand Wagoneer25 campaigns
- Wrangler 2-DR 4X4 RHD0 campaigns
- Wrangler X RHD 4X40 campaigns
- CJ710 campaigns
- Gladiator21 campaigns
- Grand Cherokee L14 campaigns
- Grand Cherokee 4XE13 campaigns
- Wrangler 4XE5 campaigns
- CJ67 campaigns
- Wagoneer S6 campaigns
- Grand Wagoneer L5 campaigns
- Truck5 campaigns
- Wagoneer L3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Jeep CJ5: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/jeep/cj5/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 15 May 2019
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- CHRYSLER CORPORATION
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Jeep CJ5 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1976 with 4, 1972 with 3, 1979 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Jeep CJ5 model year has the most complaints?
- The 1978 model year, with 1 of the 2 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Jeep CJ5 name?
- Steering: 1 component mention. Power Train: 1 component mention.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Jeep CJ5?
- 2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.