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1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee transmission problems

93 complaints about transmission have been filed for the 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is 12% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
93 12% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
12 and 1
Injuries and deaths
10 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 12 crashes, 1 fire, 10 injuries.

What owners wrote

Vehice was idling while in park, then jumped into reverse, knocking wife down. Ran into neighbor's yard, damaging property and the vehicle.

June 1997 CrashInjury

Tl*the contact owns a 1993 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that the vehicle would not shift into park. He had to shift into neutral and apply the parking brake. The vehicle would only start when it was in neutral. The contact stated that the failure occurred after the dealer repaired the automatic transmission lever and linkage (NHTSA campaign # 02v053000). The dealer stated that the secondary detent system needed to be adjusted.

Reported at 188,000 miles, July 2007

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