2008 Jeep Commander: airbag warning light

Filed Apr 30, 2025 · Airbags · 140,000 miles · NE

The contact owns a 2008 Jeep Commander. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the air bag warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed a failure with the clockspring assembly. The vehicle was not repaired. After investigating the failure, the contact related the failure to the federal safety agency Campaign Number: 16V290000 (Air Bags), but the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was notified of the failure, a case was opened, and the contact was referred to the federal safety agency Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was 140,000.

Filed Sep 19, 2023 · Acceleration, Electrical · TN · 2 injuries

Electrical System is failing. Began with the Electrical sunroof will not open/OR slide all the way open, the sunroof Electrical problem has been this way since I purchased it in 04/2019. Next the touchscreen panel for the radio AM/FM, will shit off while driving down the road randomly and sporadically. CD Player quit working indefinitely, i cant even get my CD out of the CD player. Will not play any CD or radio if cd player is attempted to be activated. Airbag warning light is showing on dash 24/7, however, vehicle has never been wreaked. No airbag been deployed. Vehicle has NEVER been in a wreak. caused injury due to rough and rugged suspension and while driving the vehicle throws passengers and driver. Has been Serviced & checked. has failed to start 23 times in a row. checked alternator, starter, ect. 7-10 minutes of attempting to start without luck. professional mech. claimed its the electrical system; pro mechanic fixed problem. Problem persists with Electrical system has caused the gears to slip while cruise control is actively in use and if going up a hill rpm's will sky rocket from 1 to 6 in a heartbeat. JEEP COMMANDER is a v6 but drives as a 4 cylinder. Driving on Highway is dangerous when Electrical system breaks down without warning. This has scared my fiance and I several times for fear of our lives. Suspension and shocks do not work well, as the slightest bump is rough and rugged throwing passengers & driver around. All these defects never occurred until 2021. Electrical system is the most important component of the vehicles makeup it makes everything run smoothly and every single day i have electrical system problems that effects my safety and anyone in my 08 jeep commander. This is a manufacturer problem, i know this because a professional mechanic informed me of this and asked me to request a recall on my vehicle. Please help to correct these issues for the safety of all those on the road. Thank you for your time and consideration. God Bless

Filed Jan 22, 2023 · Electrical, Fuel system · TN

Electrical System is failing. Began with the Electrical sunroof will not open/OR slide all the way open, the sunroof Electrical problem has been this way since 10 years before i purchased it in 2019. Next the panel for the radio and screen panel for AM/FM, Then the CD Player quit working all together. Will not play any CD. Airbag warning light is showing on dash,however, vehicle has never been wreaked. No airbag been deployed. Starting the vehicle, within the past 6 months 2008 commander has failed to start over 20 times after continuously checking alternator, starter, ect. Informed it is the Electrical System failing; By professional. Vehicles Electrical system has caused the gears to slip and it is a v6 but drives as a 4 cylinder. Driving on Highway is dangerous when Electrical system breaks down without warning. Suspension and shocks seem to not work well, as the slightest bump is rough and rugged throwing passengers around. All these defects never occurred from April 2020 until recently about December 2021. Electrical system Repair is thousands of dollars to fix or replace. This is a manufacturer problem. Please help to correct these issues for the safety of all those on the road. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Filed Aug 30, 2018 · Seat belts · 125,000 miles · WI

The latch on the 2nd row passenger side seat belt fell apart and is unusable. The latch on the 2nd row drivers side seat belt is malfunctioning. It does not always accept the seat belt and if it does, will not release without significant force making it also unusable. Not only do we have no seat belts in the 2nd row (except for small center seat) but this is also causing the airbag warning indicator to come on & off while driving.

Filed Jun 28, 2018 · Airbags · 181,707 miles · IN

Air bag light stays on.

Filed Apr 8, 2016 · Airbags · 82,000 miles · MI

Air bag light began coming on and off intermittently, whether driving or stationary, eventually staying on most of the time. Periodically while driving it would go off them immediately come on and chime. Took to a chrysler dealer and was advised the clock spring in the steering wheel needed to be replaced as it was faulty and would not deploy the air bag if involved in a crash. Researched the issue and found several other complaints for this model as well as recalls for 2007 to 2010 jeep wranglers which have the same steering system. Clock spring was subsequently replaced by dealer for a significant cost, correcting the problem.

Filed Oct 8, 2015 · Airbags, Electrical · 56,468 miles · OH

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 jeep commander. The contact stated that the air bag warning light illuminated. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign number :14v567000(electrical systems)however, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 56,468.

Filed Sep 11, 2015 · Airbags · 97,000 miles · KS

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 jeep commander. While driving at various speeds, the passenger side air bag warning indicator illuminated intermittently. The failure recurred on multiple occasions. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 97,000.

Filed Aug 30, 2015 · Airbags · AZ

The vehicle has been showing the airbag light since I purchased it. First they replaced the seat belt tensioner trying to guess problem but it did not fix it but it went away for a while. Now they believe they found true problem and it's the clock spring. I believe the item was defective since new purchase and now it completely go bad. I have no airbags and I'm driving around bad because jeep installed a defective clock spring on my 08 jeep. They have a recall on 07 jeeps but my 08 is not part of it. Hopefully you can add our 08 jeeps commander to that list.

Filed Jan 12, 2015 · Airbags, Electrical · 73,000 miles · MD

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 jeep commander. The contact stated that while driving at an unknown speed, the air bag warning light illuminated and the headlights malfunctioned. Also, the contact mentioned that the ignition switch seized on the accessory position. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 14v567000 (electrical system); however, the part needed to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 73,000.

Filed Apr 22, 2014 · Airbags, Body · 100,000 miles · FL · crash · 2 injuries

My daughter was driving down the hwy and a car came out in front of her from the left side and they hit. The other car's air bags all went off. My jeep not one air bag went off after totaling the front end going through a ditch hitting a guard rail etc. Police but on report they went off just took it as they should of because of how bad she was hit. My daughter has back problems the other person cracked hip had to have back surgery. My daughter has to have surgery to but they wouldn't ok it at time so now applying for disability unable to work. We have every recall that you have list on here wrong with our jeep and more. It starts to rev up as if putting gas on while holding brake or while just driving down the street, I was in car waiting for car in front of me to go with foot on brake it jerked so hard I thought I got kit in the back. We have taken it in to have tests run on the jeep and they come back saying nothing wrong with it. So looking to trade in but the police report wrong trying to get that fixed.since accident the air bag light goes on might stay on or go off and on. I feel that there is a problem with the air bags but told they can't check unless take apart etc to look at them. They should have gone off in accident. The tire light is on all the time.so I feel unsafe driving my jeep with two small children in it. We have taken it in for the recalls they say not for our jeep VIN # and refuse to fix them have asked other people with same jeep and they all got same problems. We have talked to the jeep people over computer and they say they have no answer for air bag problem at this time. What is that suppose to mean.

Filed Mar 10, 2014 · Airbags · 110,000 miles · OR

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 jeep commander. The contact stated that the driver's side air bag warning light was illuminated continuously. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who indicated that the air bag needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and they stated that there was not a recall related to the air bag failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 110,000. Updated 05/12/14 ma the consumer stated the light would go out, and then come back on, periodically. Updated 05/15/14