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Passenger car - JEEP Wrangler – JEEP

Serious risk Fire

Published by Safety Gate 18 Mar 2010In the weekly report of 19 Mar 2010 (week 11, 2010)Safety Gate noticeJSON
latest report: week 43, 30 Oct 2026checked 7 min agoSource: EU Safety Gate
Product
Passenger car - JEEP Wrangler
Brand
Jeep (105 alerts)
Brand as notified
JEEP
Type / model
Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited (type JK) (recall campaign J30)
Description
The recall applies only to the above vehicles equipped with an automatic transmission. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/images/rapex/2010-w11/2010-w11_37-vins.pdf">See attached list of VIN numbers</a><img src="http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/images/pdf.gif"/>.
Risk
The product poses a risk of fire because the transmission fluid on the affected vehicles may overheat under certain driving conditions. Continuous operation under these conditions may cause the transmission fluid to boil over and come in contact with hot engine or exhaust components. This could cause an underhood fire without warning.
Measures
  • Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer
Notifying country
Greece
Country of origin
United States
Alert type
Consumer

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Sources

  1. Safety Gate alert 0517/10
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  2. Safety Gate weekly report Report-2010-11 (XML)
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