2006 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #616559
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES:DRAG:POWER ASSIST SYSTEM filed March 14, 2007
NHTSA complaint #616559 (ODI reference 10185022) concerns a 2006 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on March 14, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 14, 2007. The vehicle had 20,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Vermont based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:linkages:drag:power assist system, 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 steering:linkages:drag:power assist system 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 2006 JEEP LIBERTY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*- THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 CHRYSLER JEEP LIBERTY. THE CONTACT RECEIVED RECALL O6V288000 FOR THE LOWER BALL JOINTS. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 20,000. THE DEALER/MECHANIC REPLACED THE STEERING SENSOR, AS WELL AS THE FRONT LOWER BALL JOINTS. WITHIN A HALF MILE AFTER LEAVING THE DEALERSHIP THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT TURN LEFT, AND SHE HEARD A GRINDING NOISE. THE TRACTION CONTROL SENSOR CAME ON. THE VEHICLE WAS RETURNED TO THE DEALER\MANUFACTURER AND THE STEERING SENSOR WAS CHANGED AGAIN ALONG WITH THE REAR BRAKE SENSOR. THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO HAVE STEERING PROBLEMS. THE CONTACT HAD TAKEN THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER/MANUFACTURER. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 616559 |
| ODI Number | 10185022 |
| Date Filed | March 14, 2007 |
| Failure Date | March 14, 2007 |
| VIN | 1J4GL48K66W |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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