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5th Generation Cherokee News and Notes

Bite-sized content about all the recalls, lawsuits, and investigations surrounding the 2014-2021 Cherokee.

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  • advising owners not to drive until the vehicles can be inspected. That's an ominous start for the latest iteration of the popular SUV.

    Posted on
    November 18, 2020
    Tagged
    #recall
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • Fiat-

    Chrysler has been accused of calling the 2.4L Tigershark engine's agressive oil consumption "normal" in order to avoid having to recall millions of vehicles.

    Posted on
    August 12, 2020
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • A tiny group of 2019 Jeep Cherokees shipped with defective instrument clusters. That means no working gauges, warning chimes, or gauges. You know, little stuff like that. The recall is already underway.

    Posted on
    March 8, 2019
    Tagged
    #recall
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • A lawsuit concerning hacking vulnerabilities in Fiat-Chrysler’s (FCA) Uconnect system is headed to trial this October. The lawsuit was filed after researchers showed how a Jeep could be controlled remotely through the infotainment system. FCA has called the case meritless and tried to get it dismissed. When that didn’t work they turned to the U.S. Supreme Court. To FCA’s surprise, the court refused to even hear the appeal.

    Posted on
    January 31, 2019
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • the lawsuit blames it on the material of the plastic bracket that cracks due to constant tension and stress forces. Once the plastic bracket fails, the metal rod is torn from its position and causes the active head restraint headrest to deploy.

    Posted on
    January 25, 2019
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • There

    ’s a settlement on the horizon for 9-speed transmission problems, it just needs the judge’s final thumbs up.

    Posted on
    December 3, 2018
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • 2016

    Cherokee owners are tired of their junk 9-speed transmissions shifting hard, losing power, and making sudden unexpected movements.

    Posted on
    June 16, 2018
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • ZF No

    rth America is recalling over 500,000 of its 9-speed transmissions (number 9HP48 or 948TE) because they can suddenly slip into neutral.

    Posted on
    August 8, 2016
    Tagged
    #recall
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • before September 23rd, 2014.

    Posted on
    July 26, 2016
    Tagged
    #recall
    Source
    carcomplaints.com
  • A new

    lawsuit says the Cherokee’s 9-speed transmission is so riddled with problems that even Fiat-Chrysler (FCA) doesn’t know how to fix them.

    Posted on
    August 17, 2015
    Tagged
    #lawsuit
    Source
    carcomplaints.com

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