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2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE — Complaint #1074026

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH filed June 10, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1074026 (ODI reference 10597435) concerns a 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE and was filed on June 10, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 7, 2014. The vehicle had 94,002 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:ignition:switch, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

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 electrical system:ignition:switch 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 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH
State
Michigan
Mileage
94,002 mi

Complaint Description

HAS BEEN HAPPENING OFF AND ON SINCE PURCHASING CAR USED ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO. DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, USUALLY BUMPY ROAD, CAR TURNS OFF- DEAD. HAVE HAD IT FIXED TWICE BEFORE. FOUND TO BE KEY AND IGNITION SWITCH (APRIL 2013) NOW DOING IT AGAIN. DEALERSHIP REPORTED TO ME SIMILAR PROBLEM WITH A DODGE CARAVAN. REPORT THEY CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT SINCE IT IS INTERMITTENT PROBLEM. WILL DO THIS AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. VERY RANDOM. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1074026
ODI Number 10597435
Date Filed June 10, 2014
Failure Date June 7, 2014
VIN 1L8HR58N48C

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