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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.

Vehicle
1995 JEEP CHEROKEE
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:LEAF
State
Pennsylvania

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.