Airbag Software Recall - 2014 Jeep Cherokee Limited Long-Term Road Test


Fiat-Chrysler expanded a recall on 2014 and 2015 Jeep Cherokees to address an issue with airbag deployment software.
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Fiat-Chrysler expanded a recall on 2014 and 2015 Jeep Cherokees to address an issue with airbag deployment software.
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I've seen quite a few older cars that hit harsh potholes or other road debris and set the side airbags off (which are more sensitive to lateral acceleration because they have so much less time to fire in a real world collision due to the reduced space between impact site and occupant as compared to a frontal impact where there's much more crumple zone space). Just from reading the recall summary, it sounds like in normal driving this shouldn't be an issue but there were likely some owners that went off-roading and hit something under just the right conditions to make the controller think there might be a collision occurring.