When it agreed with NHTSA last June to recall the vehicles, Chrysler said that it and the agency agreed that adding trailer hitches to Jeeps that don't have them, or have non-standard hitches, was intended only to " incrementally improve the performance of certain (Jeeps) in certain types of low-speed impacts."
The parts involved seemingly are simple - trailer hitches like those installed as original equipment on the 1993 - 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002 -2007 Jeep Liberty SUVs. Chrysler Group takes seriously its commitment to customer safety." In a statement to USA TODAY, the car company said, "Launching a safety recall demands complex engineering and close collaboration with NHTSA well before we accumulate replacement parts.
Seven months after Chrysler Group promised the government it would recall 1.56 million older Jeeps for what federal officials say is a potential fire hazard, the automaker says it only now is preparing to build the needed repair parts.Ĭhrysler and the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration both are disinclined to say much about the lag.Ĭhrysler - which vigorously insists there's no safety problem in the Jeeps - says it now "has finalized replacement-part design and is initiating the tooling process to deliver the required volume." In a December letter to owners of the Jeeps, the car company had warned that the parts "do not exist," but it was trying to come up with them.
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