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2005 Forest River Cherokee Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Mar 2, 2018
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Aug 12, 2009

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2005 Forest River Cherokee. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

Showing 1–2 of 2

Electrical
Filed Mar 2, 2018

2005 JEEP CHEROKEE. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO VEHICLE CONTINUES TO STALL AFTER SENSOR THROTTLE AND SOLENOID RECALL REPAIRS. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED AFTER THE IGNITION SWITCH RECALL WAS COMPLETED THE VEHICLE MALFUNTIONED. THE DEALER WAS NOTIFIED. *JS

NHTSA ID
10965529
Incident
Mar 2, 2018
Body & structure
Filed Aug 12, 2009

STRUCTURE FAILURE OF TOUNG , A FRAME OF TRAVEL TRAILER. WE JUST PURCHASED A BARELY USED 2005 FOREST RIVER TRAVEL TRAILER 2 MONTHS AGO. WE WERE COMING HOME FROM A SHORT TRIP WHEN THE FRONT OF OUR TRAILER FELL TO THE GROUND CAUSING SPARKS FROM THE TRAILER DRAGGING ON THE GROUND WE IMMEDIATELY PULLED OVER AND THE A FRAME HAD BENT. THE TRAILER IS NOT USABLE WE ARE TRYING TO CONTACT THE MANUFACTURER BUT THEY ARE NOT RESPONDING. WE ARE UNABLE TO MOVE THE TRAILER IT IS UNSAFE AND WOULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT IF IT WAS TOWED ANYWHERE EVEN FOR REPAIRS. *TR

NHTSA ID
10280213
Incident
Aug 8, 2009
Mileage
5,000 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

Data sources

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