2006 JEEP COMMANDER — Complaint #792559
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE filed June 10, 2010
NHTSA complaint #792559 (ODI reference 10335628) concerns a 2006 JEEP COMMANDER and was filed on June 10, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 24, 2010. The vehicle had 10,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maine based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable, 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 COMMANDER cohort independently describe similar parking brake:conventional:mechanical:linkage and cable 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 COMMANDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 JEEP COMMANDER. WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH OVER A BUMP IN THE ROAD, HE HEARD A LOUD SHATTERING NOISE, AND DROVE ONTO THE EMERGENCY LANE. WHEN HE LOOKED UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE THERE WAS NO VISIBLE DAMAGE. WHEN THE CONTACT RESTARTED THE VEHICLE, THE NOISE RECURRED. WHEN THE CONTACT RESTARTED THE VEHICLE A SECOND TIME THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO FUNCTION NORMALLY. THE DEALER PERFORMED A DIAGNOSTIC TEST AND THE MECHANIC STATED THAT THE RETAINER CLIP BROKE WHICH CAUSED THE EMERGENCY BRAKE CABLE TO HANG DOWN, AND HIT THE DRIVE SHAFT. THE RETAINER CLIP AND THE BRAKE CABLE WERE REPAIRED. HE SPOKE TO THE JEEP MANUFACTURER TO CONFIRM THAT THE FAILURE WOULD NOT RECUR. HE WAS TOLD THE FAILURE WAS NOT A COMMON OCCURRENCE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 100,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 101,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 792559 |
| ODI Number | 10335628 |
| Date Filed | June 10, 2010 |
| Failure Date | May 24, 2010 |
| VIN | 1J8HG48N66C |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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