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1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE — Complaint #1004783

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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:LATCH CONNECTOR/CLIP filed August 26, 2013

NHTSA complaint #1004783 (ODI reference 10537201) concerns a 1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE and was filed on August 26, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 27, 2013. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:latch connector/clip, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE cohort independently describe similar child seat:latch connector/clip failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE
Component
CHILD SEAT:LATCH CONNECTOR/CLIP
State
New York

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A CONTACT OWNS A 1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE. THE CONTACT OWNS A BABY TREND CHILD RESTRAINT SEAT, MODEL NUMBER TS25751 (NA), MANUFACTURED NOVEMBER 21, 2012. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE PLASTIC LOCKING CLIP WOULD NOT LATCH SECURELY INTO THE BASE AND CAUSED THE CHILD SEAT TO SHIFT OUT OF POSITION WHEN DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED AND THEY MAILED A REPLACEMENT PART; HOWEVER, THE FAILURE RECURRED TWO WEEKS AFTER THE REPLACEMENT PART WAS INSTALLED. THE CONTACT PLANNED TO HAVE THE PART OR CHILD SEAT REPLACED. (RELATED VEHICLE INFORMATION: MODEL YEAR=1999, MAKE=GRAND CHEROKEE, MODEL=JEEP)

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1004783
ODI Number 10537201
Date Filed August 26, 2013
Failure Date July 27, 2013

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.