Recall Register

Jeep Cherokee: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 93 recall campaigns for the Jeep Cherokee, model years 1973 to 2026. NHTSA has 8,021 complaints on file for this model line. 36 of the 41 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19730
  2. 19743
  3. 19755
  4. 19764
  5. 19771
  6. 19782
  7. 19792
  8. 19803
  9. 19812
  10. 19822
  11. 19831
  12. 19843
  13. 19853
  14. 19864
  15. 19875
  16. 19880
  17. 19893
  18. 19905
  19. 19915
  20. 19921
  21. 19933
  22. 19945
  23. 19956
  24. 19966
  25. 19974
  26. 19985
  27. 19992
  28. 20001
  29. 20012
  30. 20060
  31. 201413
  32. 201511
  33. 20169
  34. 20176
  35. 20187
  36. 201911
  37. 20203
  38. 20214
  39. 20223
  40. 20231
  41. 20264
Jeep Cherokee: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Jeep Cherokee400%1,502,530
2023 Jeep Cherokee NHTSA page100%61,711
2022 Jeep Cherokee300%73,945
2021 Jeep Cherokee400%81,222
2020 Jeep Cherokee300%386,615
2019 Jeep Cherokee1118997%424,795
2018 Jeep Cherokee77136%4,963,861
2017 Jeep Cherokee619198%4,994,349
2016 Jeep Cherokee9374191%5,138,471
2015 Jeep Cherokee11959490%7,263,134
2014 Jeep Cherokee131,482758%7,421,524
2006 Jeep Cherokee NHTSA page0179%
2001 Jeep Cherokee2227116%2,327,078
2000 Jeep Cherokee1368188%1,115,322
1999 Jeep Cherokee2362185%984,000
1998 Jeep Cherokee5396202%995,434
1997 Jeep Cherokee4389199%1,344,107
1996 Jeep Cherokee6445227%701,733
1995 Jeep Cherokee6608311%542,780
1994 Jeep Cherokee5519265%349,780
1993 Jeep Cherokee3418214%339,947
1992 Jeep Cherokee111257%334,047
1991 Jeep Cherokee5232119%362,954
1990 Jeep Cherokee5268137%560,369
1989 Jeep Cherokee319198%250,000
1988 Jeep Cherokee09750%
1987 Jeep Cherokee55729%33,628
1986 Jeep Cherokee42111%28,129
1985 Jeep Cherokee3179%4,083
1984 Jeep Cherokee374%51,814
1983 Jeep Cherokee NHTSA page100%180,000
1982 Jeep Cherokee200%193,532
1981 Jeep Cherokee211%181,724
1980 Jeep Cherokee311%191,036
1979 Jeep Cherokee200%190,891
1978 Jeep Cherokee211%181,995
1977 Jeep Cherokee NHTSA page100%180,000
1976 Jeep Cherokee400%284,388
1975 Jeep Cherokee500%294,195
1974 Jeep Cherokee300%202,647
1973 Jeep Cherokee NHTSA page011%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

11,163 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Jeep Cherokee: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train200.42,237
Service Brakes, Hydraulic122.51,367
Electrical System81.6911
Engine73.6822
Structure65.8734
Engine and Engine Cooling62.3695
Vehicle Speed Control61.1682
Unknown or Other45.7510
Steering34.8389
Air Bags28.6319

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Jeep Cherokee, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 9 campaigns.
Complaints about the Jeep Cherokee, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2015, with 755 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Jeep: all 35 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Jeep Cherokee: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/jeep/cherokee/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHRYSLER CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Jeep Cherokee model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 13, 2019 with 11, 2015 with 11. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Jeep Cherokee model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 1,482 of the 8,021 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Jeep Cherokee name?
Power Train: 200.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 122.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 81.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Jeep Cherokee?
32 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.