House owners of choose Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee fashions in the US could discover themselves with a fogged up windshield and unable to clear it due to a problem with the defrosting system. The fault has prompted Jeep to challenge a recall for affected automobiles.

The recall discover issued by way of the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) specifies that impacted automobiles could have been constructed with incorrectly programmed hybrid management processor software program. If that is so then the windshield defrost system shall be disabled below sure situations which, as you may in all probability think about, may very well be fairly a nuisance, in addition to a security challenge for those who dwell in a chilly space.

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A complete of 199,143 automobiles are impacted. These encompass 139,318 Jeep Wranglers from the 2021-2024 mannequin years and assembled between September 2, 2020, and August 24, 2023, in addition to 59,825 Grand Cherokees from the 2022-2024 mannequin years and constructed from July 23, 2021, to December 5, 2023.

Jeep was alerted to a possible challenge with the defrost system in June final yr and over the continuing six months, analyzed which of its automobiles could have a non-functional system. It then determined to launch the voluntary security recall earlier this month.

Each sellers and house owners shall be alerted to the recall round April 5 and the issue shall be rectified by merely updating the software program of the hybrid management processor, a repair that shall be carried out freed from cost.

That is removed from the one recall issued for Wrangler and Grand Cherokee fashions within the U.S. over the previous six months. In November final yr, 32,125 examples of the plug-in Wrangler 4xe have been recalled due to a fireplace danger. In August, some 162,731 Jeep fashions, together with 2022-2023 Grand Cherokees, have been recalled because the reversing digital camera could not have displayed a picture on the media display.

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