The 2009 Jeep Wrangler has 6 recalls, the most serious involving the passenger-side front airbag inflator, which can explode and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
Several additional recalls affect the airbag system. The clockspring assembly, which carries the electrical signal to the driver's frontal airbag, can develop a broken or contaminated circuit that prevents the airbag from deploying in a crash. This issue is covered across multiple filings but describes the same underlying problem, and it only affects right-hand-drive models. On the braking side, the front fender liners can rub against the brake fluid tubes, wearing through them over time and causing a fluid leak that reduces braking force at the affected wheel.