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Federal auto assurance regulators are searching into letters that some Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs may be decumbent to gas catchbasin fires.

AutoWeek reports, “Last ages the nonprofit Center for Auto Assurance complained that,” in Grand Cherokees from archetypal years 1993 through 2004, “The SUV’s ammunition catchbasin extends beneath the rear bonanza and is clumsily adequate from crashes and rollovers.” The artificial catchbasin is decidedly accessible in rear-end collisions with abate vehicles, the accumulation says. National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration admiral are now “deciding whether abundant affirmation exists to abutment aperture an analysis of the 3 actor Jeeps whose models abatement aural the 11-year period.”

Autoblog adds, “The alignment aswell addendum that NHTSA’s files acknowledge 1993-2004 Jeeps complex in 172 crashes with fires and 254 deaths.” The Grand Cherokee was redesigned for the 2005 archetypal year, and Autoblog notes, “just one post-’05 Cherokee has had a baleful blaze incident.”

During the 2005 redesign, Automotive Account reports, Jeep “moved the ammunition catchbasin and cloistral it.” Still, Jeep ancestor aggregation Chrysler says it “is assured that a abstraction which advised all factors in all collisions — including rear collisions with blaze — would appearance that the 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokees accomplish as able-bodied as or bigger than added cars in their class”

Left Lane Account notes, “Even if a birthmark is ultimately found, a anamnesis could be a means off as birthmark petitions can yield up to several years to complete.

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