1995 JEEP CHEROKEE — Complaint #84373
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:LEAF filed August 19, 1997
NHTSA complaint #84373 (ODI reference 815824) concerns a 1995 JEEP CHEROKEE and was filed on August 19, 1997. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 6, 1997. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:leaf, 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 suspension:front:springs:leaf spring assembly:leaf 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 1995 JEEP CHEROKEE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DRIVING VEHICLE 40MPH; HIT A BUMP; HEARD A LOUD SCRAPPING NOISE; TOOK TO MECHANIC & HAD ON LIFT & INFORMED LEAF SPRING HAD BROKEN. TOOK TO NON-DEALER FOR REPAIR. PROBLEM REOCCURRED. 3 MONTHS LATER CHECKED & FOUND OTHER LEAF SPRING HAD BROKEN & HANGING OFF. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 84373 |
| ODI Number | 815824 |
| Date Filed | August 19, 1997 |
| Failure Date | March 6, 1997 |
| VIN | 1J4FJ78S0SL |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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