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2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee service brakes, hydraulic problems

418 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the service brakes, hydraulic on the 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee29% of all complaints for this model year.

418
Service Brakes, Hydraulic complaints
29%
share of all complaints
27,600 mi
median reported incident mileage
8 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • All 1999-2002 grand cherokee wj models built through may 10, 2002 came equipped with brake calipers made by teves. They are black in color with an open-sided bracket design. Due to poor caliper centering, the teves calipers caused the rotors to warp, a problem that has plagued grand cherokees. At…

    filed Oct 4, 2010

  • 2000 jeep grand cherokee rear brake lights out because of defective design. Brake lights stop working when headlights turned on. Brake lights work fine when headlights off. Problem design is in the tail light assembly. When you remove the light socket for the tail/brake light in the light assembly…

    filed Jul 15, 2010

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.