NHTSA Complaint #10520607 — 2005 JEEP LIBERTY

2005 JEEP LIBERTY DIESEL. FUEL/WATER SEPARATOR LEAKS FUEL THROUGH THE HEATER ELECTRICAL LINES. KNOWN FIRE HAZARD THAT JEEP/CHRYSLER HAS NOT RECALLED. RAW FUEL RUNS OUT THE LIVE ELECTRICAL HEATER LINES. ENGINE WAS STALLING ON STARTUP. ODBII CODE CAME ON AFTER A MONTH OF THIS "FUEL LEAK SEVERE". IT WAS LOOSING PRIME WHILE SITTING DUE TO AIR LEAKING IN. FOUND FUEL LEAK ON PRE-HEATER CONNECTOR TO FUEL WATER SEPARATOR HOUSING. FOUND SOME BURNT AND MELTED PLASTIC WHERE CONNECTOR WAS. I FOUND NUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF THIS ON-LINE. I FOUND A PLETHORA OF INFO ON THIS AND THERE WEREN'T MANY OF THESE VEHICLES SOLD. IT SEEMS LIKE A SERIOUS ISSUE. CHRYSLER OBVIOUSLY KNOWS ABOUT THEIR MISTAKE, WHEN I CALLED THEM THEY WERE ABLE TO SELL ME A NEW SEPARATOR WITH AN UPDATED FUEL HEATER CONNECTION, FIXING THE KNOWN ISSUE. WITH NEW SEPARATOR, NO ISSUES. SHOULD BE RECALL. STALLING OUT ON HIGHWAY SPEEDS AND LOSING POWER. COULD HAVE BEEN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. CHRYSLER TECHS COULDN'T FIX THE ISSUE WHEN I BROUGHT IT IN FOR REPAIR AND I SPENT OVER A $1000 ON OTHER REPAIRS THEY THOUGHT WERE CAUSING THE ISSUE BEFORE I FOUND THE INFO ONLINE ABOUT THE SEPARATOR ISSUE AND WE FOUND THE MELTED HEATER CONNECTIONS. *TR