2005 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #657202
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL: PRE-HEATER filed February 11, 2008
NHTSA complaint #657202 (ODI reference 10217741) concerns a 2005 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on February 11, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 11, 2008. The vehicle had 48,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, diesel: pre-heater, 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 fuel system, diesel: pre-heater 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 2005 JEEP LIBERTY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2005 LIBERTY CRD DIESEL FUEL HEATER ELEMENT IS CLEARLY A FIRE HAZARD. I SEE THE INVESTIGATION PE07041 HAS BEEN CLOSED. THIS IS AN ERROR, I HAVE SEEN ON THE FORUMS MANY PEOPLE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. ALTHOUGH MINE CAUSED A LOSS OF PRIME SO THE ENGINE NEEDED TO BE PRIMED EVERY AM UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION I CAN SEE HOW THIS IS CLEARLY A FIRE HAZARD THAT I SUSPECT EXISTS ON ALL OF THESE VEHICLES AND UNTIL A PROBLEM EXISTS THE DISASTER IS JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN POSSIBLE CAUSING FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE. SUGGESTION-JEEP REPLACE THE ELEMENT WITH A RACOR OR SIMILAR UNIT THAT DOES NOT POSE THE FIRE HAZARDS. I HAVE PICS I WOULD GLADLY SEND YOU AS EVIDENCE. I HAD TO PAY FOR THE REPAIR PART BUT ISSUE IS OF COURSE THIS IS THE SAME UNIT THAT HAD THE PROBLEM AND ONLY ONE AVAILABLE FROM JEEP. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 657202 |
| ODI Number | 10217741 |
| Date Filed | February 11, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 11, 2008 |
| VIN | 1J4GL48585W |
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FUEL FILTER HEAD UNIT HEATER ELECTRICAL CONNECTION LEAKS CAUSING SMOKE AND POSSIBLE FIRE. *TR
I HAVE A 05 JEEP LIBERTY CRD AND THE HEATER ELEMENT IN THE FUEL FILTER IS LEAKING FUEL FROM THE PLUG AND THE PLUG IS BURNT UP WORRIED ABOUT IT CATCHING FIRE LIKE SOMEOTHER CRD LIBERTYS HAVE ..WILL BE
LEAK FROM FUEL HEATER ELECTRICAL CONNECTION CAUSED VEHICLE TO STOP OPERATING. WHEN THE SYSTEM IS PRIMED FUEL IS SPRAYED INTO THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. I TALKED TO CHRYSLER AND THEY SAID THIS WAS NOT
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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