# Service bulletin 17\-004\-13

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10136475
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-05\-14
- Manufacturer's number: 17\-004\-13
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-03\-01
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT

## NHTSA's summary

Cleaning Of Rear Air Suspension At Every Engine Oil Change This bulletin involves cleaning the left and right side rear air spring bellows and piston area at the lower control arm pocket in the rear of the vehicle. Rear suspension air springs may become damaged due to abrasion from road debris or the air spring can become punctured due to ice/snow build\-up at bottom of piston at lower control arm.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10136475-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10136475-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Suspension, Air suspension

## Vehicles listed

- 2011 to 2014 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [17\-004\-13](/bulletins/10216265.md), 2022-07-25, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION SYSTEM; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL:AUTOMATIC \(ASC\). Cleaning Of Rear Air Suspension At Every Engine Oil Change This bulletin involves cleaning the left and right side rear air spring bellows and piston area at the lower control arm pocket in the rear of the vehicle. Rear suspension air springs may become damaged due to abrasion from road debris or the air spring can become punctured due to ice/snow build\-up at bottom of piston at lower control arm.
- [SB\-08\-082\-13](/bulletins/10054166.md), 2013-12-27, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION SYSTEM. JEEP: AIR SUSPENSION CONTROL MODULE \(ASCM\) SOFTWARE NEEDS UPDATING DUE TO MESSAGE APPEARING REGARDING NO AIR SUSPENSION UP/DOWN REQUESTS ARE BEING MADE. MODEL 2014 GRAND CHEROKEE. \*PE

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