2018 JEEP CHEROKEE Complaints

SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHTS AND WARNING COME ON RANDOMLY WHEN DRIVING. WHEN THE ERROR MESSAGE IS DISPLAYED, THERE IS NO WAY TO GET RID OF IT EXCEPT TURNING VEHICLE OFF AND ON. THE ERROR MESSAGE TAKES UP THE ENTIRE IN DASH SCREEN AND DOES NOT ALLOW FOR THE DIGITAL SPEEDOMETER TO BE SHOWN. THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A PATTERN AS TO WHEN THIS OCCURS, HAS HAPPENED WHEN STARTING UP AND JUST RANDOMLY WHILE DRIVING (NOT SPECIFICALLY LINKED WITH A SPEED, DIRECTION, OR TURN).

THE "SERVICE SHIFTER" WARNING MESSAGE APPEARS IN THE "MESSAGE SCREEN" & YOU CANNOT CLEAR IT SO THE MPH & OTHER NEEDED DRIVING DATA IS UNAVAILABLE. ALSO ALL OF THE SHIFTER LIGHTS BECOME ILLUMINATED SO YOU CANNOT SEE WHAT GEAR THE TRANSMISSION IS IN. "CARGURUS.COM" HAS A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ON THIS SAFETY ISSUE. CAR IS IN MOTION & STATIONARY;.THE SHIFTER SERVICE MESSAGE APPEARS. IT 1ST OCCURRED YESTERDAY; 8/19/2019 TO ME. THIS IS A SAFET ISSUE BECAUSE MY MPH ETC IS UNAVAILABLE & I CANNOT VERIFY GEAR I AM IN. (DRIVE/REVERSE ETC)

"SERVICE SHIFTER" LIGHT POPS UP ON SCREEN AND THE P,R,N,D ALL LIGHT UP AT ONCE WHILE DRIVING.

LOW PRESSURE OIL LIGHT COMES ON WHEN TURNING. ONCE THE CAR DID NOT START, I HAD TO GET IT TOWED, TO FIND OUT THE CAR WAS OUT OF OIL, THOUGH THE DISPLAY READ LOW OIL PRESSURE IS AT 53%. I GOT AN OIL CHANGE AND A LITTLE OVER A MONTH, THE LIGHT STARTED TO COME BACK ON.

I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WHEN MY 2018 JEEP CHEROKEE SUDDENLY STALLED WITHOUT WARNING SHUTTING ALL SYSTEMS DOWN. I WAS STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LANE WITH KNOW MEANS OF MOVING MY VEHICLE TO A SAFE AREA. I CALLED TRIPLE A AND WAITED 1.5 HOURS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD FOR A WRECKER. APPARENTLY MY VEHICLE WAS LOW ON OIL SO IT SHUTDOWN. HOWEVER I WAS NOT DUE FOR AN OIL CHANGE AND MY OIL LIFE WAS AT 13%. MY VEHICLE WARNING LIGHTS DID NOT ALERT ME THAT I WAS LOW ON OIL. I MADE A COMPLAINT TO MY SERVICE PERSON AT CHARLIE'S IN AUGUSTA MAINE SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN I TOOK THE VEHICLE IN FOR AN OIL CHANGE AT 8000 MILES AND IT WAS 2 QUARTS LOW. THEY TOLD ME IT'S COMMON FOR A VEHICLE TO USE THAT MUCH OIL BETWEEN OIL CHANGES. THEY DID AN OIL CCONSUMPTION TEST AND SAID IT WAS NORMAL. JEEP SAYS YOU CAN USE A QUART EVERY 800 MILES. THAT IS 7.5 QUARTS BETWEEN OIL CHANGES IN A NEW VEHICLE. UNACCEPTABLE AND NOT SAFE FOR A VEHICLE TO SHUTDOWN DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITHOUT ANY WARNING. CONSUMER STATED THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT HAS STALLED DUE TO LOW OIL PRESSURE. HOWEVER A FEW OIL CHANGES AGO CHARLIES DID AN OIL CHANGE AND TOLD ME MY OIL LEVELS WERE LOW. I THOUGHT THIS UNUSUAL AND THEY DID AN OIL CONSUMPTION TEST WITH NO FINDINGS. AT THIS TIME THEY DID NOT TELL ME THERE WAS AN OIL CONSUMPTION SERVICE BULLETIN ON THIS VEHICLE. *JB

BURNING ONE QUART OF OIL EVERY 1,400 TO 1,500 MILES SINCE IT TURNED 30,000 MILES

SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHT CAME ON AND ALL GEARS LIT UP RED, PULLED OVER AND SHUT OFF THEN TURNED BACK ON. ALARM WENT AWAY, THIRD TIME.

AT 19500MILES SERVICE SHIFTER MESSAGE CAME ON AND RED LIGHTS APPEARED BY PARK, NEUTRAL, DRIVE, REVERSE ETC ON CAR SHIFTER, DRIVING ON HIGHWAY. STOPPED TURNED IT OFF AND LIGHT WENT OUT. THIS APPEARS TO BE A VERY COMMON COMPLAINT ON THIS MAKE AND MODEL AND LOW MILEAGE.

SERVICE SHIFTER RANDOMLY POPS UP AND ALL LIGHTS ON SHIFTER GO RED HAPPENED OUT OF NOWHERE AND GOES AWAY U FOUND HUNDREDS OF NOT THOUSANDS WITH THE SAME PROBLEM!

SERVICE SHIFTER MESSAGE KEEPS APPEARING ON THE DASH AND ALL OF THE LIGHTS ON THE SHIFTER WILL TURN RED. HAS BEEN HAPPENING AT LEAST ONCE A DAY (SOMETIMES 4-5 TIMES) AND TYPICALLY HAPPENS WHEN I HIT A BUMP (NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR BIG). IT CAN ALSO SOMETIMES HAPPEN WHEN YOU TAP THE SIDE OF THE CONSOLE. FORUMS ONLINE SUGGEST THAT THE ISSUE IS HAPPENING BECAUSE THE WIRES FROM THE SHIFTER KEEP BUMPING INTO CATALYTIC CONVERTER AND SHORTING (HTTPS://WWW.CARGURUS.COM/CARS/DISCUSSION-T68742_DS990296). I AM STILL ABLE TO DRIVE THE CAR WHEN IT HAPPENS, BUT IT IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING BECAUSE I CANNOT SEE ANYTHING ON THE DASHBOARD.