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 owns a 1998 Jeep Cherokee. The contact stated that while driving 40 mph, there was a sudden acceleration and the brake pedal failed to respond as a result the contact crashed into a tree. A police report was filed and the contact sustained no injuries. The vehicle was towed and had not been repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 150,000.
The contact owned a 1998 Jeep Cherokee. The contact was driving approximately 3 mph when the accelerator went into the floorboard abnormally causing the vehicle to accelerate independently. The contact was unable to control the unintended acceleration and crashed into two vehicles, went over a curve, crashed into a guardrail and then into a fence. The contact sustained injuries to the head. A police report was available. The vehicle was destroyed. The failure mileage was 117,400.
Intemittent failure of the speedometer and tachometer as well as the air bag waring light turing on. These conditions were apparently caused by a faulty instrument cluster connector. The connector was replaced with part number 05016261 to correct the fault. It appeared that the service people were familiar with this condition and its' cause.
My Jeep was parked with the engine running to run the ac for approx 5 minutes. It jumped into reverse and raced off (as if someone was seating in the driver's seat with foot on the gas). My friend attempted to jump in to stop it; however, he was thrown onto the ground. The Jeep stopped only after plowing into a brand new 2002 Chevrolet trailbrazer. Hitting the parked trailbrazer was blessing because it stopped the Jeep from rolling into a major highway!! I called Chrysler to report the accident. Their engineer reviewed the wreckage and reported that nothing was wrong with the Jeep. What a joke!!!!!!
- Selma, NC, USA
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Engine stalls while trying to accelerate, stalls while cruise controll is set at certain speed, hesitates as if not getting gas, but has enough fuel, engine service lights comes, when put ing for repairs the technician did an engine clean and the light went off, and then came back on within 24 hours, car back in for engine check and I was tolf there was a bulletin issued by Chrysler about the # 7 cylinder misfiring.
When driving the cruise control kicked on, and it came on/off. Whenever it wanted to. Also, the air bag sensor light came on, and the light came on and off whenever it wanted. In addition, speedodmeter didn't work, and the consumer had the vehicle in the shop four times for the air bag sensor light. The vehicle is still in the shop and the dealer can't determine the problem. The dash board goes dead while driving because connectors were not seating properly. Fuse panel falls off and will not stay on at all because right kick panel is deformed.
Vehicle accelerated while either in park or drive. Vehicle was stopped when it suddenly speed forward and crashed into the garage. Driver did not have foot on gas pedal.
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- North Port , NY, USA