Systems pose an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety in rear impact collisions.” However, almost a year ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its investigation of the center’s allegations were reason enough for the agency to upgrade its investigation to an engineering analysis. On Wednesday, the automaker issued a statement reconfirming its own analysis of the Grand Cherokee models called into question by the center, saying the S.U.V.’s “are neither defective, nor do their fuel Posed a fire risk, noting that the vehicles met federal safety standards. Chrysler has repeatedly denied that the Grand Cherokee The second problem is a fuel filler pipe positioned so that it can rip away from the tank in a rear impact, allowing gasoline to escape from the tank, the center said. It redesigned the vehicle for the 2005 model year, but a company spokesman said the move was not related to concern about fires. Chrysler moved the tank in front of the rear axle when The first is a gas tank behind the rear axle and somewhat below the bumper, in an area that safety engineers call a crush zone. The Center for Auto Safety has also been urging, since 2009, a recall of 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokees, saying the In a letter to John Elkann on Wednesday, Fiat’s chairman, the centerĬited the deaths of three children since 2006 in fires that occurred when the Jeeps in which they were riding were struck from the rear. Group said, “Children are dying in Jeeps in rear-impact fires.”
The Center for Auto Safety is asking top officials at the Chrysler Group and its parent company, Fiat, to recall about five million vehicles. The Center for Auto Safety wants Chrysler to recall five million Jeep Grand Cherokees made from 1993 to 2004 for a potential fire hazard from their gas tanks.
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