Jeep Cherokee Airbag Recall Expanded by 62K

Jeep is expanding a recall of the 2014 and 2015 Cherokee. 

A small number of inadvertent airbag deployments initiated this recall, which is now expanding to an additional 62,148 Cherokees in the U.S. The expansion comes after a review of the initial batch of vehicles that were recalled. Jeep says it doesn’t know of any additional incidents of the airbags deploying inadvertently.

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Vehicles that suffered from randomly deploying airbags were usually in harsh, off-road conditions on severe angles, prompting the airbags to deploy as a rollover was deemed imminent. Dealers will provide a software recalibration that increases the threshold for airbag deployment to fix the issue.

This puts the total number of Cherokees affected to 230,240.

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