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Passenger car – Jeep

Serious risk Fire

Published by Safety Gate 23 Nov 2006In the weekly report of 24 Nov 2006 (week 46, 2006)Safety Gate noticeJSON
latest report: week 43, 30 Oct 2026checked 6 min agoSource: EU Safety Gate
Product
Passenger car
Brand
Jeep (105 alerts)
Type / model
Grand Cherokee WG, Grand Cherokee WJ
Description
Heated Seat Elements in Jeep carsThe recall concerns vehicles equipped with heated front seats built after 10 September 2002 for the WJ and after 24 January 2003 for the WG. The VIN/chassis numbers are: 1J8G2@8#?&Y* where @ = E or B, # = A or J or S, ? = 1 to 9 or X, & = 3 or 4 and * = production numbers of 6-digits.
Risk
The product poses a risk of fire because the front seat electric heating elements may overheat and cause an interior fire.
Measures
  • Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer
Notifying country
Greece
Country of origin
Austria
Alert type
Consumer
Photos
Photo 1 of the product in Safety Gate alert 0748/06
Photos shown from the Safety Gate server (European Commission); not copied here.

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Sources

  1. Safety Gate alert 0748/06
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  2. Safety Gate weekly report Report-2006-46 (XML)
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