advising owners not to drive until the vehicles can be inspected. That's an ominous start for the latest iteration of the popular SUV.
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.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.
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.
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.
There
’s a settlement on the horizon for 9-speed transmission problems, it just needs the judge’s final thumbs up.2016
Cherokee owners are tired of their junk 9-speed transmissions shifting hard, losing power, and making sudden unexpected movements.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.before September 23rd, 2014.
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.
5th Generation Cherokee News and Notes
Bite-sized content about all the recalls, lawsuits, and investigations surrounding the 2014-2021 Cherokee.