Jeep Grand Cherokee 1996 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 180298 · NHTSA communication 600396 · issued Feb 6, 1998
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
1996
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Experiencing long crank time/sags/hesitation or slow run up after a cold dirve-away start which is caused by an ignition switch triggered reset of the power train control module (pcm) which caused adoptive memory loss in pcm. *ak
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.