Chrysler Pacifica Owners Say Minivans Suddenly Shut Off<br />One owner, Adam Cohen, a lawyer in Leesburg, Va., said he<br />and an advocacy group, the Center for Auto Safety, will file a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday calling on the agency to open a formal investigation of the stalling issue in Pacificas and to order a recall.<br />In 2015, the highway safety agency found that the automaker had failed to promptly notify vehicle owners of recalls<br />and delayed initiating repairs of defective models in 23 recalls covering 11 million vehicles.<br />“I understand you have to find the source of the problem before you can fix it,<br />but there’s still a safety issue here,” Mr. Cohen said in an interview.<br />The company “routinely monitors the performance of its vehicles using information from multiple data<br />streams,” including formal complaints filed with regulators, Fiat Chrysler said in a statement.<br />Since the beginning of this year, more than 50 Pacifica owners have filed complaints with<br />federal safety regulators about their vehicles suddenly losing power on the road.<br />Both Mr. Cohen and Mr. Patel have left their Pacificas with their dealers<br />and have declined to take the cars back until the stalling issue is cleared up.<br />Mr. Patel, whose Pacifica had 308 miles on it when it shut down on the highway,<br />is trying to get his dealer or Fiat Chrysler to buy back the minivan from him
