2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee locks problems

Filed Jul 8, 2014 · Locks · 38,000 miles · FL

After 4+ years of consumer complaints about his very serious safety hazard, still nothing has been done. The door handles of my 2006 jeep grand cherokee started crumbling and cracking about two years ago at about 38,000 miles. A year ago, the first door handle simply broke off amongst shards of paneling around it, making the door inoperable. Today, three out of four panels have desintegrated around the handles to the point where they are inoperable as well, effectively trapping someone in the back of the vehicle if I dared to to have passengers and got into an accident. The driver's side is hanging by a thread. I am unable to drive my clients anymore due to liability issues and the danger that stems from this awfully poor design and quality. I have read 100s of testimonials to this avail from other jeep owners and this grave safety issue persists and is alive and well without any official push for remediation. The dealers want almost $3000 to replace their shoddy and dangerous door panels. Please. It is imperative that after years of collecting data on this issue, something will be done. These faulty door panels are turning the vehicle potentially into a death trap for anyone inside...

Filed Jan 28, 2013 · Electrical, Locks · 75,000 miles · MO

The latch on the back door makes a buzz or a duck like noise when locks. Seat belt does not retract all the way when unfastened.

Filed Oct 26, 2011 · Locks · FL

All four interior door opening handles breaking/failing: 1 rear door totally inoperable. ***this is a dangerous safety issue - if handles break or are inoperable in certain emergency situations, passengers may not be able to exit the vehicle, causing serious injury or death!*** manufacturer charge to replace/repair handles is prohibitively expensive: in my case, the cost of eight (8) monthly car payments! Manufacturer safety recall warranted!

Filed Sep 2, 2011 · Locks · 56,000 miles · FL

Door handles opening and closing during normal use on all four doors at approximately 50000 miles caused interior door panel to crack. This causes door handle to not function properly which is a safety issue if someone needs to exit vehicle quickly such as during an accident. I spoke with chrysler who insists it is a cosmetic issue, which it certainly is not. Entire interior door panel needs to be replace on each door at cost of $600 each to fix this and this has not been done as of yet.

Filed Aug 14, 2011 · Body, Locks · 45,000 miles · FL

All 4 of the inside door handles have broken with no misuse whatsoever, as a matter of fact each door was "broken" by different people by simply trying to open the door. I am worried that if there was an accident my passengers or myself could not get out of the truck.

Filed Jul 20, 2011 · Locks · 25,000 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2005 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated all of the interior door handles have cracked; therefore, the contact was only able to use the outside handle to open the door. The contact called the dealer regarding the cracked handles and the they stated the entire door panel needed to be replaced. The contact stated there were numerous complaints regarding the faulty door handles for her year, make, and model. The manufacturer did nothing to remedy the failure. The failure mileage was 25,000.

Filed Jul 5, 2011 · Body, Locks · FL

During the month of may 2011 the plastic interior door handle recesses began to crack and ultimately the pieces literally began to fall of the vehicle rendering the door handles useless when attempting to open the door from inside as door handles no longer had a pivot point to operate against when attempting to pull the interior door handle in an effort to operate the door latch mechanism. This failure makes it impossible to open the door from inside the vehicle short of rolling down the power windows and pulling on the outside door handle. On the tenth of june 2011 the selling dealer was called concerning this issue and the operations manager stated he could not do anything. Subsequently chrysler customer assistance was called and after several exchanges with two different case managers, on the 21st of june I was told by the presiding case manager that due to the fact that the vehicle had approximately 80,000 miles on it and had been out of warranty for so long (2006 jeep grand cherokee larado) chrysler would do nothing.

Filed Jun 29, 2011 · Body, Locks · 48,000 miles · TX

2006 jeep grand cherokee interior door handles disintegrate making it impossible to open doors from inside. Obviously a tremendous safety concern in case of mishap as all four disintegrate at the same rate. We had 2 totally fail rendering door inoperative and occupant unable to exit.

Filed May 24, 2011 · Locks · 14,000 miles · NY

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that the door handles began to crack from the interior of the vehicle. The metal door part was no longer attached to the plastic. The vehicle was taken to two authorized dealers who took pictures of the failure but could not provide a reason for the failure. One dealer advised that the failure was caused by vandalism. The contact stated that the front door handles were progressively worse than the rear handles. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact called the manufacturer who advised that they would not be able to assist. The current mileage was 30,225. The failure mileage was approximately 14,000.

Filed May 5, 2011 · Locks · 70,000 miles · FL

2006 jeep grand cherokee, 3 interior door handles have broken and doors cannot be open from the inside of the vehicle. This is a safety issue. In the event of an accident exiting the vehicle would be difficult if not impossible. Jeep is not standing behind these manufacturers defects and a recall is in order.