Auto Park Brake - Jeep 2016 Cherokee Owner's Manual

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516 STARTING AND OPERATING

will sound. The rear stop lamps will also be illuminated

automatically while the vehicle remains in motion.

To disengage the park brake while the vehicle is in

motion, release the switch. If the vehicle is brought to a

complete stop using the parking brake, when the vehicle

reaches approximately 3 mph, (5 km/h) the parking

brake will remain engaged.

Driving the vehicle with the parking brake engaged,

or repeated use of the parking brake to slow the

vehicle may cause serious damage to the brake sys-

tem; failure to do so can lead to brake failure and a

In the unlikely event of a malfunction of the Electric Park

Brake system, a yellow EPB fault lamp will illuminate.

This may be accompanied by the Brake warning lamp

flashing. In this event, urgent service of the electric park

brake system is required. Do not rely on the parking

brake to hold the vehicle stationary.

Auto Park Brake

The electric park brake can be programmed to be applied

automatically whenever the vehicle is at a standstill and

the automatic transmission is placed in PARK, or with a

manual transmission, whenever the ignition switch is

turned "OFF". Auto Park Brake is enabled and disabled

by customer selection through the customer program-

mable features section of the Uconnect Settings.

Any single auto park brake application can be bypassed

by pressing the EPB switch to the release position while

the transmission is placed in PARK.

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