ON JULY 3, 2007, DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION (DCC) SUBMITTED A DEFECT INFORMATION REPORT TO NHTSA DESCRIBING A DEFECT THAT COULD RESULT IN ENGINE STALL WHILE DRIVING IN APPROXIMATELY 80,894 MODEL YEAR (MY) 2007 JEEP WRANGLER AND DODGE NITRO VEHICLES MANUFACTURED BETWEEN JANUARY 30, 2006 AND JANUARY 22, 2007

THIS INVESTIGATION WAS OPENED ON NOVEMBER 21, 2006 BASED ON TWO OWNER REPORTS AND ONE E-MAIL REPORT ALLEGING AN INTERIOR FIRE IN THE PASSENGER SIDE AREA OF THE DASH PANEL. DAIMLERCHRYSLER (DCC) HAS IDENTIFIED A DEFECT IN THE BLOWER MOTOR OF THE HVAC SYSTEM IN THE SUBJECT VEHICLES AND IN CERTAIN 2007 MODEL YEAR LIBERTY VEHICLES. THE DEFECT REPORT STATES,

ODI HAS RECEIVED 76 VEHICLE OWNER COMPLAINTS ALLEGING INCIDENTS OF ENGINE STALL WHILE DRIVING IN MODEL YEAR (MY) 2006 THROUGH 2007 JEEP COMMANDER VEHICLES (SUBJECT VEHICLES). SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS REPORTED ONE OR MORE INCIDENTS OF ENGINE STALL WITH A SIMULTANEOUS LOSS OF SOME OR ALL LIGHTING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING HEADLAMPS. TWO ENGINE STALLS RESULTED IN A VEHICLE CRASH.

ON JULY 3, 2007, DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION (DCC) SUBMITTED A DEFECT INFORMATION REPORT TO NHTSA DESCRIBING A DEFECT THAT COULD RESULT IN ENGINE STALL WHILE DRIVING IN APPROXIMATELY 80,894 MODEL YEAR (MY) 2007 JEEP WRANGLER AND DODGE NITRO VEHICLES MANUFACTURED BETWEEN JANUARY 30, 2006 AND JANUARY 22, 2007

ON JULY 7, 2009, CHRYSLER NOTIFIED NHTSA THAT CERTAIN AFTERMARKET MOPAR TOW BAR ASSEMBLIES IT SOLD FOR USE WITH 2007 AND 2008 JEEP WRANGLERS CAN FAIL UNDER CERTAIN DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS CAN RESULT IN THE TOWED VEHICLE SEPARATING FROM THE TOWING VEHICLE, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN A CRASH.

Kisaan Howard (age 15)Renee Howard (Mother)Wildwood, NJAs a 2-year-old, Kisaan Howard’s neck was broken during an accident when sheslipped out of her seatbelt; she needs round the clock care.In 1996, Renee, her husband and then two year-old Kisaan, riding in their Jeep Grand Cherokee, were hit head on.

 

Kimberly Young Dionne Sales (niece and attorney)Rose Young (mother and caretaker)Oakland, CA Kimberly Young’s neck was broken, rendering her quadriplegic, when the roof ofher Jeep Grand Cherokee caved in during an accident.On August 29, 2008, 44-year-old Kimberly Young was driving her mother’s 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee with her daughter, Keyona Chester, when the vehicle was involved in an accident and rolled over.

In the fall of 2007, Farbod Nourian was in his senior year at UCLA, studying history, and planning to apply to law school. But that November he was seriously injured, when the 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee he had just exited slipped, without warning from park to reverse. Nourian was walking behind the vehicle to get into the passenger’s seat, when he noticed the Jeep start to move backwards, he turned and was caught by the door. He grabbed onto the door, but when the vehicle hit a wall, it knocked him to the concrete, rupturing three disks and crushing his vertebrae. He now suffers from chronic pain and gastrointestinal distress. According to his doctors, he faces a lifetime of pain that will only get worse as he ages.