Fire

Passenger car - JEEP Wrangler

JEEP
Case number
0517/10
Category
Motor vehicles
Type / Model
Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited (type JK) (recall campaign J30)
Audience
Consumer
Notifying country
🇬🇷 Greece
Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
Published
2010-03-19

⚠️ 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

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

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"/>.