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.
Vehicle was parked with engine running, park brake not engaged when vehicle suddenly started going backward, and stopped after hitting a fence. $ $2300 damage, no injuries.
I stopped the car near a dumpster and put the shift lever in park. I opened the driver door and exited the vehicle. The engine was running and the parking brake was not engaged. I began to walk toward the rear of the vehicle and it began to back up. I attempted to jump back in through the open door but the door jamb caught me and threw me to the ground partially under the car. The door caught the dumpster and was bent back to the front fender and the left front tire rolled over my left foot and right lower leg. A person nearby jumped in the car and stopped it a few feet from a brick wall. I was taken to an emergency room for X-rays and there were no broken bones. I had deep bruises on my left foot, both arms, my right shin and on the back of my right upper thigh. My left knee and my left hamstring were both strained. I am still having difficulty walking without pain in my left leg.
Vehicle was parked inside of parking lot at work, it was running and in park, and driver walked away a few feet. There was a 18 wheeler parked besides Grand Cherokee. Truck driver was blowing horn because vehicle's gear jumped in reverse and started towards truck, and then smashed into tryck. Dealership was aware of problem.
The vehicle which had been in for service and repair three times for a reoccurring shifting problem jumped out of park into reverse knocking the driver down at the driver door area and proceeded to run over driver's right leg and travel across the roadway and crashed into the residence there.
While car was in park and consumer got out, closed garage, and vehicle started to go backwards. Another time pulled up to garage, put car in park, and while in vehicle, it started to go backwards. Consumer couldn't remember if it was in park. Took vehicle to dealer, and they stated no recall.
The vehicle was turned on and still in park when it suddenly began to roll backwards out of the garage, the open door scraped a parked minivan and caught the front of another minivan and came to rest after doing extensive damage to the Jeep as well as damaging both vans. Nlm
Consumer drove into dealers lot, put the vehicle into park with the engine running, and all of a sudden consumer was informed that vehicle was rolling backwards in the consumers direction, the consumer then tried to stop vehicle, but it damaged two parked vehicles as well as sustaining damage to the Jeep bumper, consumer states the manufacturer sent a letter stating that it was her error since the owners manual states to apply the parking brake.
Jeep slipped out of park gear into reverse after driver exited car to fasten seatbelt on child, resulting in driver's leg, chest and head being ran over. Please contact me or refer to letter by attorney jonell thomas, mailed September 6, 2001, for more complete information.
Cleaning highway-pulled of highway -put vehicle in park-exited vehicle to change road sign-vehicle was left running-shifted from park to reverse and backed across highway in to a road sign.
The vehicle was placed in park as the driver was exiting the vehicle he notice that the door was coming towards him, he proceed to jump back into the car and depress the brake but instead accidentally hit the gas causing the vehicle to accelerate backwards at a speed of 50 mph, as a result the driver became pinned between his vehicle and a vehicle entering the service station, the driver sustained multiple injuries (pelvis, femur and elbow fractures). Nlm
Consumer's wife pulled out of driveway, going forward, and had to place automobile in park. Got out of car, moved the object, and when she turned around, automobile was moving in reverse, hitting two trees in process of moving.
Vehicle lurches forward in reverse. Dealer took 6 months to find a remedy. Dealer has no remedy for vehicle potintially going in reverse. Problem can't be duplicated.
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- Carmel, IN, USA