2014 JEEP CHEROKEE — Complaint #1691257
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL:SWITCH filed September 10, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1691257 (ODI reference 11354151) concerns a 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE and was filed on September 10, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 8, 2018. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:electrical:switch, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same JEEP CHEROKEE cohort independently describe similar parking brake:electrical:switch failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING 25 MPH, THE PARKING BRAKE AUTOMATIC SYSTEM ILLUMINATED AND LOCKED UP THE FRONT WHEELS AND THROW HER INTO THE STEERING WHEEL. THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT THE SAME FAILURE OCCURRED ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO LEN STOLER CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP (1001 BALTIMORE BLVD, WESTMINSTER, MD 21157, WHERE THE AUTOMATIC PARKING BRAKE SWITCH WAS REPLACED HOWEVER, THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO ANOTHER CHRYSLER DEALER JONES JUNCTION (1508 BELAIR RD #2000, BEL AIR, MD 21014), AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH THE SAME FAILURE AS THE FIRST DEALER. THE AUTOMATIC PARKING BRAKE SWITCH WAS REPLACED. THE FAILURE RECURRED AND THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE THE CONTACT ADVISED THE MECHANIC TO DISCONNECT THE PARKING BRAKE SWITCH. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 70,000.*DT*DT*JB*DT*DT*DT*JB*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1691257 |
| ODI Number | 11354151 |
| Date Filed | September 10, 2020 |
| Failure Date | March 8, 2018 |
| VIN | 1C4PJMBS6EW |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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