Within weeks of the purchase of this vehicle on 1/06, paint on bumper began to have small chip marks. As of 7/06 I have noticed more chip marks and also a rub mark where the paint has just rubbed off easily, with no structure damage to the bumper. Also paint nubs ( bubbling) around door handles and paint is coming off of driver door handle at creases. It seems as if paint is poorly applied.
2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee body complaints
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Brand new 2005 jeep grand cherokee laredo, right front passenger door was being opened, a gust of wind caught the door and hyper-extended it causing it to be misalinged. The next time the door was opened, the front lip of the door caught on the rear of the right front fender and caused a dent in the fender approximately 6 inches long and 3 inches wide. To properly fix damage, right front fender was replaced and painted, right front door was repaired and repainted, hood was repainted to blend with new paint on fender and door. Total cost of repairs was approximately $1,300. Important to note, no other damage to any other vehicles, property or people was caused by this gust of wind. It happened in a grocery store parking lot and there were lots of other people, cars and property around. Nothing else was damaged and the gust of wind seemed very minor. In 30+ years of driving I have never experienced damage to a door due to a wind gust nor have I ever heard from anyone I know of receiving damage to a door due to a wind gust. This appears to me to be a door hinge design flaw.
While driving agt 40 MPH and above if one back window is open the car starts to shake. By the time you reach 60 MPH the shaking is out of control. I went to the dealer and he claims this normal wind rattle. I disagree.
I attempted to install a car seat for a 3 year old child in the back seat of my 2005 grand cherokee. However, the head rest interfered with proper installation of the car seat. The head rest would not allow the seat to be tightly mounted to the back seat of the car, but rather held the child seat out by about 2-3 inches. This prevented the seat from being safely installed. It is very difficult to remove the head rest from this vehicle. I had to take it to the dealer to get this done. But when the head rest is removed, there are two "prongs" that protrude out, making the situation even more dangerous. I called chrysler to get advice on what to do. They said go to the dealer, but the dealer could not solve the problem either. I then called chrysler again, and they insisted this is not a problem. But it is! Daimler- chrylser needs to address this problem. It is a design flow. At the very least they should provide a list of infant car seats that can be properly installed -- if any such seats exist.
Car purchased 6/20/05 with 0 miles. Car taken to repair 7/11/05 with 450 miles. Some where on the residential streets a pebble went into the car and damaged the air compressor. Freon has been leaking since the impact. The service dept can not pin point just how long the freon has been leaking but all I know is that I am 6 months pregnant and have 2 other little girls that have been inhailing this freon. The car damage is not covered under waranty since this is a road hazard. However, the car is designed to drive through mountains and rocky roads. There is a designer fault since the new cars do not have a protection grid /net to prevent debris from doing such damage. The older models do have this. When I asked the service dept of prevention devise they only stated that the car was designed this way and that I am not the only person with this simular problem with this new jeep laredo 2005.
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