Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2006 Jeep Commander

The contact owns a 2006 Jeep Commander. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle suddenly accelerated independently. The contact also mentioned that the brakes seized and would not immediately release. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where the mechanic stated that there were no recalls. The manufacturer was notified. The approximate failure mileage was 80,000. The current mileage was 96,000.

2006 Jeep Commander. Consumer writes in regards to sudden acceleration. The consumer stated while traveling southbound on the northway, the vehicle suddenly and without warning accelerated at a high rate of speed of about 90 mph. At the time, the consumer was about five car lengths from an automobile ahead of him in the same lane, and in 10 seconds he was just a few feet of overtaking and crashing into the vehicle. He applied the brake, then the accelerator, repeating it over and over, but to no avail, unable to bring the vehicle to a stop or even slow it down. Realizing that crashing into the vehicle was imminent, he made an oblique turn into the traffic lane to his left and continued at 90 mph with the engine screaming and with the thrust of a rocket, his foot was on the accelerator, trying to shut the vehicle down. The vehicle continued on at a high speed for another 10 or 15 seconds and then the situation corrected itself and it settled down to 50 mph. The consumer took the vehicle to the dealer, where an inspection revealed the throttle body plate was full of carbon and that interfered with the performance of the throttle causing the sudden and unexpected acceleration of the vehicle.

The contact owns a 2006 Jeep Commander. The contact was exiting a residential driveway at low speed when the vehicle sputtered abnormally. The failure progressed and the vehicle began to stall without warning when driving at least 55 mph. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the contact was informed that the failure was caused by a defect in the air conditioning system. The vehicle was repaired yet the failure persisted. The contact also experienced unintended acceleration and hesitation in the vehicle. Most recently, the gear shift selector became stuck in neutral. The contact called the manufacturer and was awaiting a return call. The failure mileage was approximately 70,000 and the current mileage was approximately 75,000.

Sudden acceleration - car wash. Attendant entered vehicle at end of jax car wash in rochester hills, michigan. I personally observed event - when driver put vehicle in gear in suddenly violently accelerated. The quick reaction of the jax driver prevented a major accident. He nearly missed a vehicle in front of the car wash being dried off by other employees and several employees by the dry towel containers - managing to go between them. He ended up running over a sidewalk curb, but managed to get it into neutral and shut the engine off before entering the main highway. The violent acceleration I observed was just short of a miracle that he managed to avoid personnel, vehicles, and to stop the vehicle before it entered the highway. After shutting it down for several minutes, the vehicle was restarted and performed normally. This vehicle had been through this car wash previously with no acceleration problem. It had just turned over 18,000 miles and had never had this happen previously. This is an extremely dangerous situation.

On December 2, 2005, my mother was killed in an automobile accident in stanton, delaware. She was operating my 2006 Jeep Commander, and the incident was caused by unintended acceleration. The delaware state police contacted the office of defect investigation as part of their investigation. The delaware state police have recently advised me that the office of defect investigation is closing this inquiry. Further, the delaware state police have advised me to contact you because I disagree and respectfully request and petition that the office of defect investigation go forward with and aggressively pursue this investigation.

Petition for the continuation of a defect investigation into unintended acceleration of the 2006 Jeep Commander vehicle, her mother was killed while operating her 2006 Jeep Commander.