Steering Linkage Connection problems of the 2001 Jeep Cherokee

One problem related to steering linkage connection has been reported for the 2001 Jeep Cherokee. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Jeep Cherokee based on all problems reported for the 2001 Cherokee.

1 Steering Linkage Connection problem

Failure Date: 04/16/2002

While traveling on highway vehicle oversteered to the right, without prior warning, vehicle lost control and overturned, dealership was aware of problem. Vehicle was analyzed and was found the cause of the accident was due to an improperly tightened adjusting collar on the drag link, this caused the extra effort having to be applied by the operator to turn the wheel to the left to correct the excessive rightward movement of the vehicle, when the adjusting collar finally moved, it created the abrupt maneuver that resulted in the overturning of the vehicle.


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