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Engine & cooling

1985 Jeep CJ7 Engine problems

Owners have filed 3 complaints about the 1985 Jeep CJ7's engine & cooling with NHTSA - 50% of all its complaints, most recently on December 11, 1998. They describe 0 crashes, 3 fires and 0 injuries. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.

Complaints
3
Recalls
0
Crashes
0
Fires
3
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Engine complaints

Engine & coolingFire

Consumer had just parked the vehicle and another consumer noticed smoke coming from the vehicle and knock on the consumer's door. Consumer called the fire department and they came out and put out the fire out. They didn't know what caused the fire. *Ak

Filed Incident Engine and engine coolingNHTSA 832181
Engine & coolingFire

ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRE.

Filed Incident Engine and engine coolingNHTSA 511380
Engine & coolingFire

VEHICLE FIRE IN THE ENGINE. TT

Filed Incident Engine and engine coolingNHTSA 974811

Jeep CJ7 engine complaints by year

CJ7 engine problems, every year

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