2002 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #546072
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:DELIVERY filed July 26, 2005
NHTSA complaint #546072 (ODI reference 10130119) concerns a 2002 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on July 26, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 16, 2005. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to 00 based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:delivery, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 fuel system, other:delivery 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 2002 JEEP LIBERTY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TOTAL ENGINE SHUT DOWN AT HIGHWAY SPEED OF 50 MILES PER HOUR RESULTING IN NEAR LOSS OF CONTROL. DUE TO FAILURE OF CATALYTIC CONVERTER AT 60,000 MILES. THE MANUFACTURER HAS A 21 DAY BACK ORDER ON THE PART AND ADVISES ONLY 14 PIECES ARE AVAILABLE NORTH AMERICA WIDE. NO WARNINGS, NO ENGINE LIGHTS, NO ROUGH IDLING. CHRYSLER CUSTOMER SERVICE IN CANADA SHOWED LITTLE REGARD FOR THE SAFETY ASPECT OF THE PART FAILURE AND APPEARS TO HAVE A PROBLEM KEEPING UP WITH DEMAND FOR THIS PART. AS A POLICE OFFICER I DONT WANT SOMEONE HAVING AN ACCIDENT DUE TO THIS FAILURE WITH TRAGIC RESULTS. WE HAD JUST COME OFF THE MAIN HIGHWAY AND IF THE FAILURE HAD OF OCCURRED THERE A COLLISION WOULD SURELY HAVE OCCURRED.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 546072 |
| ODI Number | 10130119 |
| Date Filed | July 26, 2005 |
| Failure Date | July 16, 2005 |
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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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