Black1990jeep
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- california
Hi all
I have been in contact with PicknPull regarding the crushed Cherokees in their yards. The manager called me back, and he told me the Cherokees are being crushed to keep people out of them because some of them are reported to have have air bags that can explode in the yard, these he explained are a mechanical verse an electrical actuator types.
The procedure the incoming cherokees go thru is the VIN is scanned and a third party software tells them if the vehicle has a dangerous airbag or not. If it comes up as having the bad kind of airbag, the roof is crushed to prevent access. Evidently, this data is not always correct, as even early Cherokees are being listed as having these defective air bag actuators. Ones I have seen crushed have no airbag i.e. the standard non airbag steering wheel like my 1990 has.
From what I have gathered, air bags did not come in Cherokees as standard until at least 1996. (at least that is what Yahoo answers says)
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE DATE RANGE FOR AIRBAGS?
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF AIRBAGS WERE AN OPTION IN PRE 1996 CHEROKEES?
The manager at Pick n Pull wants to get to the bottom of this, he used to have a Cherokee, and it sounds like he wants to make as many parts available to us as possible. He told me he was going to research it more, and I told him I would link him to this website post for more information.
So if anyone can provide info on airbags, years of air bags, and if they were an option, that will be helpful to us all.
Thank You
PS here is link to my original post
https://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1154866
I have been in contact with PicknPull regarding the crushed Cherokees in their yards. The manager called me back, and he told me the Cherokees are being crushed to keep people out of them because some of them are reported to have have air bags that can explode in the yard, these he explained are a mechanical verse an electrical actuator types.
The procedure the incoming cherokees go thru is the VIN is scanned and a third party software tells them if the vehicle has a dangerous airbag or not. If it comes up as having the bad kind of airbag, the roof is crushed to prevent access. Evidently, this data is not always correct, as even early Cherokees are being listed as having these defective air bag actuators. Ones I have seen crushed have no airbag i.e. the standard non airbag steering wheel like my 1990 has.
From what I have gathered, air bags did not come in Cherokees as standard until at least 1996. (at least that is what Yahoo answers says)
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE DATE RANGE FOR AIRBAGS?
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF AIRBAGS WERE AN OPTION IN PRE 1996 CHEROKEES?
The manager at Pick n Pull wants to get to the bottom of this, he used to have a Cherokee, and it sounds like he wants to make as many parts available to us as possible. He told me he was going to research it more, and I told him I would link him to this website post for more information.
So if anyone can provide info on airbags, years of air bags, and if they were an option, that will be helpful to us all.
Thank You
PS here is link to my original post
https://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1154866