2005 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE — Complaint #1155829
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION filed February 9, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1155829 (ODI reference 10682332) concerns a 2005 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE and was filed on February 9, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 9, 2014. The vehicle had 50,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:ignition, 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 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 2005 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V438000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM) HOWEVER, THE PART TO DO THE REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 15 MPH, THE IGNITION KEY WAS FAULTY AND EASILY RELEASED FROM THE IGNITION SWITCH. ALSO, THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT THE VEHICLE COMPLETELY SHUT OFF WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT WAS NOT REPAIRED OR DIAGNOSED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 50,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1155829 |
| ODI Number | 10682332 |
| Date Filed | February 9, 2015 |
| Failure Date | October 9, 2014 |
| VIN | 1J8HR58N05C |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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