2025 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE L — Complaint #2078285
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:BRAKE LIGHTS filed March 28, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2078285 (ODI reference 11651396) concerns a 2025 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE L and was filed on March 28, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 20, 2025. The vehicle had 714 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:brake lights, 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 L cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:brake lights 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 2025 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE L shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee L. The contact stated that while driving 60 MPH, the accelerator pedal was depressed, and the vehicle failed to respond. There were no warning lights illuminated. On a separate occasion, the contact stated that while the vehicle was driven over 60 MPH, the vehicle made an abnormally loud sound coming from the muffler. The contact merged to the side of the road, turned off the vehicle, and after the engine cooled down, the vehicle functioned properly if the vehicle did not exceed 60 MPH. On another occasion, while the vehicle was parked outside a store, the contact went back to start the vehicle, and the brake warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was started; however, the transmission failed to shift into drive or reverse. The dealer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 714.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2078285 |
| ODI Number | 11651396 |
| Date Filed | March 28, 2025 |
| Failure Date | February 20, 2025 |
| VIN | 1C4RJKAG7S8 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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