This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
The contact noticed on September 30, 2005 a customer brought in a 1995 Jeep Cherokee. The rotors came apart in two pieces which was not due to wear. The contact was an automobile technician for thirty years. There was no warning or noise prior. Put brakes on this vehicle about a year or so ago. This was not something one could see happening.. the metal was so thin that after a period of time it just came apart and was just from normal braking. When it came apart apart it put all of the pressure on the other brake which wason one brake. This will cause the steering wheel to jerk and could cause the vehicle to flip..
I acquired this vehicle specifically because it had 4-wheel anti-lock brakes. A few weeks ago, for the first time, I had to perform a "hard brake" to avoid hitting three deer. Much to my surprise, I had "hard pedal" but virtually no brakes! I narrowly avoided oncoming traffic and limped into my driveway. Noone could understand how I could have hard pedal without brakes. (all relays proved to be okay.) I had the car towed to a local tire dealer to see if they could determine what was wrong. They were astonished to find that both rotors had separated from their hubs as the result of the hard brake. They advised that they thought it had to be a defect in the metal and advised me to take it to my local Jeep dealer, cooper motors, in stevens point, Wisconsin. The service manager at cooper motors was so astonished to see the separated parts, that he called all the service technicians to the counter to see the parts. However, most of them acknowledged that they had seen this before on a routine basis. If Jeep rotor are separating from their hubs and causinig accidents, who would know? if it were discovered during a crash investigation, it would be assumed that it was the consequence of the accident, while, in fact it may actually be the cause! Jeep's comments were to advise me that rotors were only warranteed to 10,000 miles; no mention that one should expect rotors to dis-attach!
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- Hungington, WV, USA