2002 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #650231
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:SPRINGS filed December 18, 2007
NHTSA complaint #650231 (ODI reference 10212200) concerns a 2002 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on December 18, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 14, 2002. The vehicle had 61,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Mexico based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:springs, 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 vehicle speed control:springs 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
2002 JEEP LIBERTY SPONTANEOUSLY ENGAGED IN FULL ACCELERATION. VEHICLE REACHED 100 MPH WITH NO ACCELERATOR PEDAL INFLUENCE OR ABILITY OF BRAKES TO DECELERATE. PUT VEHICLE IN NEUTRAL, RPMS REACHED 7000 (MAXIMUM ON TACHOMETER) AND I WAITED TIL VEHICLE REACHED 20 MPH AT WHICH POINT I MEASURED THAT I COULD SAFELY SHUT OFF POWER AND COAST TO A STOP. SOURCE OF PROBLEM: ACCELERATOR SPRING MECHANISM GOT STUCK UNDER NEARBY CABLE IN FULL-THROTTLE POSITION. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 650231 |
| ODI Number | 10212200 |
| Date Filed | December 18, 2007 |
| Failure Date | December 14, 2002 |
| VIN | 1J4GL48K62W |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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