2003 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #644607
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:SHOES/LININGS filed November 2, 2007
NHTSA complaint #644607 (ODI reference 10208305) concerns a 2003 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on November 2, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2006. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:shoes/linings, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:shoes/linings 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 2003 JEEP LIBERTY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2003 JEEP LIBERTY MAKING A TERRIBLE GRINDING NOISE. CUSTOMER STATES THAT THE GRINDING NOISE IS LOUD AND SOUNDS LIKE METAL SCRAPING METAL. CONSUMER WAS INFORMED THAT THE SOUND WAS FROM THE REAR BRAKES. *KB THE CONSUMER STATED THE REAR BRAKES WERE REPLACED AND THE NOISE WENT AWAY FOR A FEW WEEKS, BUT THEN IT RETURNED. AN ANTI-SQUEAL COMPOUND WAS APPLIED TO THE REAR BRAKES AND AGAIN, THE NOISE WENT AWAY FOR A FEW WEEKS. THE PROBLEM WAS CAUSED BY WORN ROTORS ON THE REAR BRAKES AND IN ORDER FOR THE PROBLEM TO BE CORRECTED, THE REAR ROTORS AND THE REAR PARK SHOES NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 644607 |
| ODI Number | 10208305 |
| Date Filed | November 2, 2007 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2006 |
| VIN | 1J4GL58K73W |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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