2008 Jeep Liberty - Complaint #2172881
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NHTSA Complaint about UNKNOWN OR OTHER filed February 3, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2172881 (ODI reference 11715318) concerns a 2008 Jeep Liberty and was filed on February 3, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 12, 2025. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as unknown or other, 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 Liberty cohort independently describe similar unknown or other 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 Liberty shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I am having problems when I back up and turn the steering wheel it starts to make noise and it slows down line it don't want to turn. And my EPS light will not turn off no matter what I do to it. There is something seriously wrong when I'm backing up n turning the wheels if you could please help me an if it has nothing to do with the recall but I'm sure it dies let me know what it is. Thank You [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2172881 |
| ODI Number | 11715318 |
| Date Filed | February 3, 2026 |
| Failure Date | December 12, 2025 |
| VIN | 1J8GN28K88W |
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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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