2016 Jeep Cherokee defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2016 Jeep Cherokee. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Electronic Parking Brake Water Ingress
  Preliminary Evaluation PE22009 · opened Jul 22, 2022 · closed Oct 29, 2023

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened investigation PE22-009 after having received 80 complaints on model years 2014-2020 Jeep Cherokees alleging the Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) inadvertently activated while the vehicle was in motion.During this investigation, the subject vehicles were updated to include …

• Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
  Engineering Analysis EA21002 · opened Sep 17, 2021 · still open

  From 2000 through 2017, Takata produced millions of air bag inflators using two types of phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate ("PSAN") propellant -- propellant 2004 and propellant 2004L. After prolonged exposure to high temperature cycles and humidity, inflators using propellant 2004 can degrade, causing the propellant to…