2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE — Complaint #1408811
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY filed September 19, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1408811 (ODI reference 11024156) concerns a 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE and was filed on September 19, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 9, 2017. The vehicle had 210,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly, 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 fuel system, diesel:storage:tank assembly 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.
Complaint Description
DIESEL FUEL IS LEAKING FROM BOTTOM OF THE TANK. INSUFFICIENT SPACE BETWEEN FACTORY INTEGRATED SKID PLATE/ HANGAR TRAPS SALT AND GRIM/ DEBRIS . INSUFFICIENT DRAINAGE LEADS TO FUEL TANK ROTTING FROM EXTERIOR SIDE AND LEAK RAW DIESEL FUEL ONTO ROADWAYS AND PARKING SURFACES.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1408811 |
| ODI Number | 11024156 |
| Date Filed | September 19, 2017 |
| Failure Date | September 9, 2017 |
| VIN | 1J8HR68M08C |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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