I was driving down a 2 lane country road, within speed limit, road conditions excellent. I have a pristine driving record. I rounded a bend and was approaching the straightaway and although I steered to straighten the vehicle, my jeep continued to go to the right. I turned the wheel harder to correct the direction and the jeep veered to the left into the oncoming traffic lane. I managed to get the car back to the right side of the road, but the car hit the gully on the side of the road and crashed into a tree stump. Although I applied the brakes the car felt like it skidded to the right and the antilock brakes didn't engage. When I crashed into the side of the road I broke the front wheel and damaged the rear wheel, broke the lower control arm, damaged the suspension and steering knuckle, and did some body damage. When I queried the dealer about how this could happen, they said they knew of no defects on the 2003 liberty. After finding the information on the internet about the lower control arm/ball joint recall, and calling the dealer again with this info, the dealer said, oh yeah, they knew about that, but "don't pay much attention to recalls." I had the car serviced by my dealership on 12/16/03, the day after the recall notices were supposedly sent to customers (I still haven't received one as of 2/3/03), but they never mentioned the recall or scheduled the replacement of the defective part. I am available for contact if there are others out there who have experienced similar failures.
2003 Jeep Liberty brakes complaints
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While driving on snow and ice at 15 MPH consumer came to an intersection and applied the brakes. However, brakes locked up, sending the vehicle through an intersection and into a field. Also, brakes locked up on another occasion, sending the vehicle through another intersection.
Transmission is leaking,brakes squeal when you are backing up. They say it is from dew. It's in the garage at night. The steering is my main concern.it pulls so hard to the right. It's an accident waiting to happen.
I have a 2003 jeep liberty limited with 4 wheel anti-lock disc brakes. They have performed as designed on snow and ice until today when they did lock up and would not release. I was driving on a hill with 4 wheel drive engaged, braked and they locked. Harder pressure would not get them to pulsate and release/lock/release as designed. I skidded through a stop sign and off the road and only regained control by accelerating out of the skid. No damage or injury.
Jeep liberty failed to stop, brakes locked up and caused skid into rearend of another vehicle.
Brakes failed on 2003 jeep liberty and car ran into home.
When reversing out of the driveway at various speeds brakes would make a loud metal grinding noise when the consumer depressed the brake pedal. Had taken vehicle to dealership, but the problem had not been resolved.
The transmission is leaking and the car has only 4,000 miles on it. Also, the rear wheels are making a loud squeal when driving the car for the first time of the day. Dealer said wheel noise is due to a needed rebuild of disc brakes and the manufacturer is aware of the problem. I am on a waiting list to get my brakes fixed. However, the tranny should not be leaking at only 4,000 miles.
The rear brakes had a continuous metal to metal sound. The dealership made several attempts to correct the problem, however the noise still existed.
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