Interior door handles are broken. This is very dangerous because you cannot get out of the car - especially in an emergency. The rear door handles have been very rarely used, and still have broken. This is definitely a mfg defect that they are avoiding. Very dangerous and unacceptable that they (jeep) are not recognizing this issue.
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee body complaints
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The interior door handles both front and back are cracking and breaking off in my jeep grand cherokee limited 2005. No longer is it possible to open the front passenger side door from the inside. The back passenger side door is the same. Both the front and back driver side handles are cracking with pieces of plastic broken off. They are eventually going to break off as well. This is not occurring to abuse of opening the doors. I have probably had the back doors opened from the inside a total of 30 times for the three years I have owned the vehicle. Do not have children that ride in the back (have none), and do not transport people places from the backseat of my car very often. I have searched on line and this is a issue for thousands of other 2005 jeep cherokee owners. It is a hazard and danger if someone is unable to get out of my jeep in a emergency.
2005 jeep grand cherokee, plastic door panel and handle assembly is cracked and or broken behind where the pull handle is. Jeep refuses to fix this issue without charging over 3k for parts and labor. Failure on drive and passenger door @ 50k miles. Handles are now just floating in door cavity. Serious basic safety issue. Please make them fix this via recall.
17jan11 -- door handle faulty -- I own a 2005 jeep grand cherokee that two have cracked at the door handle. If they continue to fall apart the vehicle occupant will be trapped within the vehicle. I have contacted chrysler and they are not willing to fix or help with the $1,400.00 bill for just the two door panels. If the battery were to die you would be trapped in the vehicle, or if you were forced off of the road and ended up in a lake you could not get out. My friend has explained this to chrysler and they do not feel that it is a concern that they have to worry about. I explained that I would send pictures of the vehicle to show it is in excellent condition, and garage kept (no damage to the vehicle), adult driven. Why did the other two panels crack, they have no answer.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 jeep grand cherokee unlimited. The contact stated that the interior door handle plastic support device had broken on all four doors. The dealer was notified and stated that the entire door panel needed to be replaced for $2,610. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 30,000.
All interior door panels are cracked around the door handles. Three out of four door handles have snapped off and the very last one is hanging on by a thread. The handles seem to be attached to the actual door panel which is comprised of hard plastic. The design of the door panel and the handle being attached is bad and a safety issue if you can't exit the vehicle if your car dies and you have no power to open the windows. Additionally, if you need to force the doors open from the inside due to a wreck, car on fire, panicking etc., 9x's out of ten you don't have handles and any weight or pressure to remaining handles if any while cause them to just snap off. My car smells of gas constantly and the light comes on to tell me to check the gas cap. I eventually replaced the gas cap after checking it all of the time and now the car just smells of gas and my check engine light comes on sometimes. I've had the car checked by mechanics and the jeep dealer to no resolve. The constant gas smells give me bad headaches as well as concern when I'm driving.
All interior door handles inoperative due to engineering defect.
I own a 2005 jeep grand cherokee limited hemi , it only had 26,000 miles on it. All four of the interior door panels have now broke where the door handle is attached. The drivers door panel has broke the worst and the door handle is not even attached to the panel anymore , which has become a safety concern. I have contacted my dealer and turned in a claim for customer complaints. After 3 or 4 weeks they contacted me to say it is out of warranty. That is precisely why I called them and explained my situation. Surely they can do something to alleviate this situation , all four door panels is going to cost around $3,000 dollars. I have read numerous reports about this problem on several different sites on the internet. The whole interior panel is connected to where the door handle is situated. Meaning you have to replace the whole door panel. Please help, this is definitely a big defect and a costly one to us the consumer. Any help to this matter or a fix to this situation would be hugely appreciated.
Two of the four interior door handles on my 2005 jeep grand cherokee are broken off and unable to open the door. This is a huge safety problem, if there were an accident it would be impossible for two of the passengers to be able to exit the vehicle. They were not broken from damaging actions, they simple have just broke from everyday use.
Over the past year, both driver's side door panels on my 2005 grand cherokee (limited) have broken. Pieces around the opening handle have snapped off. The front driver side door is still usable, but the rear driver side door handle is just hanging there. These were not damaged through abuse, instead just routine use. I have not contacted my dealer as I have seen on line that most people have been unsuccessful in getting their warranties to back their claim and I don't have a lot of faith in my local dealership to go out of their way for a warranty claim. Hopefully the federal safety agency can make daimler / chrysler / jeep / fiat, whoever step up to the plate and repair what has been pretty much proven to be a design flaw.
Last year I began noticing that plastic pieces were falling from the back cover of the interior door handles. I took the vehicle to the dealer to see if there was a recall on these vehicles since I consider that this was a safety issue. The handles are completely loose and I have to stick out my arm to open the doors from the outside. I don't even want to imagine what could happen if in an accident. The cost of repairing this is approximately $2,000 since it is necessary to purchase the interior door panel.
The casings behind the inside door latch began to gradually deteriorate until all four door casings cracked which resulted in difficulty exiting the vehicle. Three of the four handles have broken off completely, rendering the doors useless.
On the drivers door and the right passenger door, the plastic of the panel supporting the interior door handle has broken leaving the handle unmounted and useless. Obviously, this is a safety hazard as it takes more time to egress the vehicle in an accident.
The interior door handles, all 4, broke off, at almost the same time. There is a common manufacturers material defect, as the door handle "pocket" is made out a brittle plastic, and they just shattered, or cracked simply by using the interior door handle to exit the vehicle. This is dangerous because in an emergency, one would not be able to exit the vehicle if the door handle breaks off in your hand.
On the drivers door, the plastic of the panel supporting the interior door handle has broken leaving the handle unmounted and useless. Obviously, this is a safety hazard as it takes more time to egress the vehicle in an accident.
The inside plastic that mounts the door handles continues to crack and break away leaving the handles unmounted. This must be a safety hazard because any point in time the handles could stop functioning leaving the driver and passengers trapped inside. Once this plastic broke away it was almost impossible to open the door from the inside.
2005 jeep grand cherokee limited. Both front and rear passenger door panels have broken and cracked. The pfront passenger door handle on the inside is now inoperable. It is now permanently inoperable on a vehicle with only 31,000 miles on it. So far the dealer claims no recalls are available and the price to replace is about 800 per door.
Door panel handles cracked on all 4 doors, unable to exit the vehicle from the back. Passengers are unable to open door. Plastic cracked and finally gave way in the rear of vehicle, front doors are cracked and very close to giving way. Huge safety issue here. Defected materials, date indeterminable of issue based on defects.
My 2005 jeep grand cherokee door handles inside are breaking. They are plastic and seem to be cheaply made. They just start to crack and after a few months the whole handle is gone. Jeep needs to issue a recall or look into this issue before someone cant get out of there vehicle in a emergency.
I have a 2005 jeep grand cherokee and the 4 doors panel handle area are 2 broken and 2 cracked, now its became to an a safety issue once is very difficult to open the doors with the broken parts, I have to scroll down the drives and back driver windows to open the doors from outside the car. Occurs every time have to get out the car. I spoke to the dealership and said is out warranty, I spoke to chrysler customer service rep and told me the same is out warranty and there is nothing they can do for my.
Re: 2005 jeep grand cherokee limited - interior door panels (where door handle is attached) are cracking and falling away resulting in the door handles no longer being attached to the door. This requires, at times, the door to be opened from outside the vehicle. Chrysler will not replace as the vehicle is out of warranty. The dealership wants $700 + labor (per door) to repair something that is obviously a manufacturing/material defect and safety hazard.
Rear passenger door handle broke from door panel causing child to not be able to open door from inside. The handle is now dangling there from wire. The other doors are showing signs of spider cracks, eventually leading to breakage.
Rear passenger door handle broke from door panel causing child to not be able to open door from inside. The handle is not dangling there from wire. The other doors are showing signs of spider cracks, eventually leading to breakage.
2005 jeep grand cherokee interior door handles are defective. Passenger side door handle has completely broken due to the cheap plastic and the driver side door handle has almost failed as well. I am afraid that in an emergency, I and my passengers might not be able to exit the vehicle. I've been reading online and this appears to be a very common issue, but chrysler refuses to fix the doors. They want $700 plus to fix each door handle, but you can't even get one because they are on back order.
2005 grand cherokee laredo the door handles are made of a defective plastic and brakes into several pieces living the door handle unable to open the doors from inside. For people who have children this is a safety issue because if you are in a wreck or in case of a fire the passengers in the back seat is unable to open the door. I believe jeep should recall the door handles at no cost to their customers. I have a 2005 jeep and 3 of the 4 handles have already broken. I have checked into fixing the problem and the cost would be $400.00/door and this is unacceptable do to the fact the cost of vehicles are at a record high you should have to replace door handles ever 5 years. I have always drove a chevy. Or ford product and have never experienced such a unacceptable problem. I am starting to doubt my decision on purchasing a jeep product.
I have two 2005 jeep grand cherokees. All the inside door handles are cracking and some are completely destroyed to the point you can not open the door from the inside. Which in the event of an accident, no one would be able to exit the vehicle. It's obviously a problem with the plastic being too thin/brittle. It's all over the internet and there are even youtube videos.
The interior door panels (all 4) at the handle are cracking and breaking. Many times the doors have to be opened from the outside. I contacted jeep and was told they have never heard of this problem, that I was the only person to report it. They told me it was normal wear and tear and that they were not responsible.
My jeep grand cherokee 2005 has only 25,900 miles and 4 of the 4 inside handles are broken, gone due to the poor quality plastic. This is a major safety concern and chrysler don't wanna do nothing about it!!! What was gonna have to happen before chrysler starts looking into this? What if me and my family get to a car accident and can't get out of the car !!!! Maybe then they will look into it!!!!
2005 jeep grand cherokee. The interior door handles (2) have broken and caved into the door panel. The doors must be opened from the outside. If someone was somehow trapped inside the vehicle, this would create an additional safety concern. The dealership wants to charge $700.00 to fix each door. I have spoken to several jeep grand cherokee owners and this seems to be a very common problem.
2005 jeep grand cherokee. All 4 interior plastic door handle mountings have cracked. The two rear handles have fallen off completely. Chrysler says they are not responsible. It is a safety hazard.
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