Consumer Complaint Detail

JEEP / LIBERTY / 2006

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0 Injured
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NHTSA Complaint Number: 007110245 Incident Date: Mar, 07 2007
Consumer's City: EAST ISLIP Consumer's State: NY
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: Chrysler (FCA US, LLC)
Model Name: LIBERTY Model Year: 2006
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Vehicle speed control
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1J4GL38K76W Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jun, 27 2007 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Nov, 28 2006
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: On 2006 jeep liberty renegade activates for no apparent reason, causing vehicle to lose power/choke out/stumble on acceleration. problem occurred intermittently up to 3 or 4 times a week. tended to happen often when going around corners in 1st or 2nd gear, and sometimes when just going straight. sometimes the light will flash while the loss of power occured, but sometimes not.. when this occurred pavement was dry and there were no abrupt manuevers no reason for this system to activate. this was a serious safety issue that could cause an accident. purchased vehicle new from dealer in november '06. dealer acknowledged problem in march '07 , claiming they were waiting for a software update from chrysler. in june '07 i returned to the dealer and addressed the problem again, and i was told that there were no tsbs, no codes, and they could not duplicate the problem . they did not acknowledge"the problem this time. they acknowledged it in writing on my service receipt in march). even on the way home from the dealer today it happened again when i exited an off ramp from the highway. *ak