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EU Safety Gate · Report-2006-46

Jeep · Passenger car

The product poses a risk of fire because the front seat electric heating elements may overheat and cause an interior fire.

Published
24 November 2006
Notifying authority
Greece
Catalog checked
30 July 2026
What should you do?

Check the authority measure and original alert.

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other. Category of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.. Date of entry into force: Unknown

Official source alert
Safety Gate reference
0748/06
Model
Grand Cherokee WG, Grand Cherokee WJ
Category
Motor vehicles
Risk type
Fire
Country of origin
Austria

Heated Seat Elements in Jeep carsThe recall concerns vehicles equipped with heated front seats built after 10 September 2002 for the WJ and after 24 January 2003 for the WG. The VIN/chassis numbers are: 1J8G2@8#?&Y* where @ = E or B, # = A or J or S, ? = 1 to 9 or X, & = 3 or 4 and * = production numbers of 6-digits.