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.
Consumer went out to his Jeep to start it and when he walked away the Jeep poppedout of gear and started rolling down a hill and went into a pond and submerged.42-1111-116
State farm insurance stated, insured was attempting to back out of her garage, when she had tried to shut the door it caught onto a flower pot. As she was attempting to get out to move it, the vehicle dept going and insured tried to hit the brake but hit the gas and she hit the garage door. 46-0198-756
Consumer started Jeep, then put it in park, got out. Jeep took off backwards, hit a tree, then started forward and hit tree in front of it, consumer tried to catch the car but when she reached for it stumbled and fell in the street hurting her knee.
Pulled into the parking garage and parked her car. Later went back to leave and saw that her car was missing. She tracked down a police officer and they told her that she must not have put her parking brake on as it rolled back into another vehicle, damaging the bumper of the car behind hers. Her car was towed and only sustained a minor scratch.
The vehicle jumped out of gear and drifted over the drivers legs pinning her under the vehicle, the door hit her cheek and she laid pinned under the vehicle until a passer by stopped to help, there was slight damagr to the Jeep.
Consumer states that he stoped vehicle, left it running, placed in park exited veh. Left door open and went inside store. Looked up and saw his vehicle going backwards. 52-2069-989
The Jeep was placed in park with the key in the ignition with engine running, I got out of the vehicle to hand my husband his billfold Jeep went into reverse the door was open it hit a utility pole and then a curb sign which went under the rear end which stopped the Jeep from continuing down the sidewalk.
I parked the Jeep on level ground, shut the vehicle off. I got out, went around to the passenger side back door, got my bags out, shut the door and walked about 100 ft. To the house and went inside. About 1/2 hr. Later my husband hollared and told me to look outside, and when I did, I saw that the Jeep had rolled down into a ditch.
Vehicle slipped into reverse after pulling in a parking space and putting it in park. I got out of the vehicle with engine running and gear in park to remove a shopping cart from parking place. My Jeep slipped into reverse and backed into another vehicle.
Vehicle will jump out of park gear into reverse while idling. Consumer has emergency parking brake applied, and vehicle was unable to move. Dealership has examined vehicle twice, and was unable to determine a cause of the problem. Please provide any additional information / attachments.
Had vehicle in "park" standing in front of vehicle by garage for at least 5 minutes when noticed Jeep going down the driveway and chased after but got across street to tree along curb and crashed into. Jeep was in "reverse" when got into and then drove into driveway and was able to recreate after calling insurace co and police dept. Sat inside put in drive, then park without it locking completely, saw orange indicator in window in "park" and had air conditioning running along with radio on. Waited awhile and saw it slowly move down into "reverse" and start rolling until I hit the brakes. The Jeep dealership in town is unable to recreate or see a problem when I took in to have them look at of course but I feel after seeing articles that this is a serious issue that should be handled before more serious injuries occur.
While unoccupied and idling in park, the car shifted into reverse and drove into a tree, damaging driver side door--I assumed I improperly put it into park--but recent publicity about a similar problem with the same car caused me to contact you so my situation can be counted among the statistics you are compiling.
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- Rockwood, TN, USA