NHTSA Complaint #10645040 — 2012 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE

TOTAL POWER LOSS IN CABIN AND ENGINE, UNABLE TO OPEN PASSENGER DOORS FROM INSIDE. THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT START AND THERE WAS A BURNING CIRCUIT SMELL EMITTING FROM UNDER THE TIPM. AAA TRIED GIVING A JUMP BUT THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT TURN OVER EVEN THOUGH TEMPORARY ELECTRICAL POWER HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED WHILE CONNECTED TO AAA POWER SOURCE. ELECTRICAL POWER WAS LOST UPON DISCONNECT FROM AAA SOURCE. DEALERSHIP DETERMINED THAT THE PROBLEM WAS ALTERNATOR FAILURE WHICH RESULTED IN SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE TO THE VEHICLES BATTERY AND CONNECTING CABLES. DEALERSHIP ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE BURNING SMELL EMITTED FROM THE BATTERY. *TR