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2004 JEEP LIBERTY — Complaint #915167

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER ARM filed April 19, 2012

NHTSA complaint #915167 (ODI reference 10455782) concerns a 2004 JEEP LIBERTY and was filed on April 19, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 10, 2011. The vehicle had 91,618 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:upper arm, 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 suspension:front:control arm:upper arm 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 2004 JEEP LIBERTY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 JEEP LIBERTY
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER ARM
State
Illinois
Mileage
91,618 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 JEEP LIBERTY. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 2 MPH, THE CONTACT HEARD A LOUD NOISE WHEN SUDDENLY THE FRONT DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE VEHICLE COLLAPSED TO THE GROUND. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE THE FRONT UPPER CONTROL ARM WAS REPLACED. THERE WAS A RECALL UNDER A NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER WAS 12V085000 (SUSPENSION:REAR); HOWEVER THE RECALL PERTAINED TO THE REAR LOWER ARMS. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE DEFECT. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 91,618. UPDATED 6/7/12 *CN

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 915167
ODI Number 10455782
Date Filed April 19, 2012
Failure Date July 10, 2011
VIN 1J4GL48K94W

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.