Injuries

Lower Ball Joints in Jeep vehicle

Case number
0734/06
Category
Motor vehicles
Type / Model
Passengers’ Car Cherokee, type KJ
Audience
Consumer
Notifying country
🇬🇷 Greece
Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
Published
2006-11-17

⚠️ Risk

Water may enter into the front suspension lower ball joints in the affected vehicles. This can cause the ball joints to corrode and separate. Ball joints separation can result in a loss of steering control and could cause a crash without prior warning.

Measures

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

The recall concerns vehicles built through March 15, 2006. The VIN/chassis numbers are: 1J@G$%8#?^W* where: @ = 4 or 8 $ = L or 6 % = B or N or C or E # = 1 or 7 or 5 or K ? = 1 to 9 or X ^ = 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 * = production numbers of 6-digits