2015 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE — Complaint #2171476
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:HEAD RESTRAINT filed January 30, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2171476 (ODI reference 11714399) concerns a 2015 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE and was filed on January 30, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 19, 2026. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Alabama based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:head restraint, 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 GRAND CHEROKEE cohort independently describe similar seats:front assembly:head restraint 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 2015 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact stated that while driving approximately 20 MPH, the front passengerâs side head restraint erroneously deployed. There was a loud popping sound during the failure. The vehicle was taken to the local mechanic, who replaced the head restraint. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The local dealer and the manufacturer were not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 60,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2171476 |
| ODI Number | 11714399 |
| Date Filed | January 30, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 19, 2026 |
| VIN | 1C4RJEBG6FC |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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