NHTSA Complaint #10213986 — 2007 JEEP COMMANDER 4X4

THE TOTAL OCCURRENCES INCLUDE SEVEN INCIDENTS OF ENGINE STALLING TO DATE, THE MOST RECENT INCIDENT ON OR AROUND DECEMBER 26TH, 2007. FIVE INCIDENTS OCCURRED WHILE MY LEASED 2007 JEEP COMMANDER WAS IDLING IN PARK. TWO OF THE ENGINE STALLS OCCURRED WHILE ACTUALLY DRIVING MY VEHICLE, THE DECEMBER 17TH, 2007 INCIDENT WHILE DRIVING UPWARDS OF 50MPH. I WAS FORCED TO PUT MY EMERGENCY BRAKES ON, CHANGE TO NEUTRAL, AND RESTART THE ENGINE WHILE MY CAR WAS MOVING AT A HIGH SPEED ON JUST ITS MOMENTUM. THERE WAS A RISK OF A NEAR ACCIDENT WITH BOTH THE CAR TO MY SIDE AND BEHIND ME. I ATTEMPTED TO CORRECT THIS INSTABILITY BY TAKING THE CAR TO THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE DEALERSHIP I LEASED IT FROM. I WAS GIVEN TWO UNREASONABLE OPTIONS BY THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT AFTER HAVING LEFT MY VEHICLE THERE UNTIL THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS THAT DAY: EITHER LEAVE MY VEHICLE AT THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT, WITHOUT BEING GIVEN A LOANER, UNTIL ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURS WHILE THE CAR WAS HOOKED UP TO A DIAGNOSTIC MACHINE AND ONLY UNTIL THEN WOULD THEY EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT THERE WAS PROBLEM (NOT AN OPTION BECAUSE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY TAKE WEEKS AND I CAN'T DO WITHOUT A CAR FOR THAT TIME) OR TAKE MY CAR BACK AND RISK HAVING IT HAPPEN AGAIN WITH MORE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES. SO, IN SHORT, SINCE I WAS SENT OFF WITHOUT RECOGNITION BY THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT THAT A PROBLEM EXISTED I WAS LEFT WITHOUT ANY POSSIBLE CORRECTIVE MEASURES I COULD THINK OF. *TR