2017 JEEP CHEROKEE Complaints

SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHT IS COMING ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL AND ALL THE LIGHTS NEAR THE SHIFTER ARE LIT UP. ALSO THE VEHICLE JUMPS INTO GEAR.

WHEN I START MY CAR, SERVICE SHIFTER COMES ON AND ALL MY LIGHTS ON THE PANEL. I HAVE TO TURN MY CAR OFF, OPEN MY DOOR TO RESET. IT TAKES A FEW TRIES FOR THE CAR TO RESET. ALSO, MY CAR BUMPS FORWARD WHILE DRIVING. HAPPENS FREQUENTLY. I HAVE TAKEN THIS IN SEVERAL TIMES TO THE DEALERSHIP BY THIS NEVER FIXES THE ISSUE. THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE SINCE I BOUGHT THE CAR IN DECEMBER OF 2016. ANOTHER ISSUE IS THAT MY CAR JUST DIES WHILE I AM DRIVING. BATTERY IS FINE. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AND PUSHING THE GAS PEDAL DOWN, THE CAR WILL START AGAIN AFTER RESTING FOR 10MINUTES. DEALERSHIP ALWAYS SAYS ITS THE OIL, BUT I HAVE 2 MONTHS STILL TO GO FOR OIL CHANGE AND OVER 2,000 MILES TIL MY NEXT CHANGE. OIL LIFE IS OVER 50%. EVERYTIME I TAKE IT IN FOR THIS IT WORKS FOR A FEW MONTHS AND THEN THE ISSUE HAPPENS AGAIN.

WHEN DRIVING TO WORK THIS MORNING "SERVICE SHIFTER" APPEARED ON MY DASHBOARD AND ALL THE LIGHTS TO THE LEFT OF THE SHIFTER WERE RED.

*SERVICE SHIFTER* *IN MOTION* *STALLED* THE FOLLOWING IS THE SAME ISSUE I HAD WITH MY 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE. I HAD TRADED THAT VEHICLE IN FOR A NEWER 2017 MODEL BECAUSE OF THIS... I HAVE A 2017 JEEP CHEROKEE. OCCASIONALLY WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED THE VEHICLE WILL STALL AND SAY "SERVICE SHIFTER, PLACE CAR IN P OR N" - I CAN NO LONGER ACCELERATE AND HAVE TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP. TURN OFF THE VEHICLE. RESTART IT AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES. WHEN I TRY TO RESTART, THE ENGINE HAS A TOUGH TIME KICKING BACK ON.THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS RECURRENCE AND MUST BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS THE SECOND REPORT I HAVE MADE. THE FIRST REPORT WAS WITH MY 2014 JEEP CHEROKEE. *TR

STARTED MY 2017 JEEP CHEROKEE, LIKE ANY OTHER DAY, DROVE 30 SECONDS DOWN THE ROAD AND I THOUGHT MY BATTERY WAS GOING DEAD. CAR SHUT DOWN RADIO AND LIGHTS WERE STILL WORKING FINE. WASN'T BATTERY, IT WAS MY SHIFTER, I HAD TO TURN MY CAR OFF IN AN ATTEMPT TO REST WHATEVER THE PROBLEM WAS. MY JEEP STARTED BACK, I THEN TURN AROUND AND GO BACK HOME. '30 SECONDS LATER IN MY DRIVEWAY IT HAPPENED AGAIN'. THIS IS A VERY UNSAFE CONDITION, LUCKILY NO ONE WAS BEHIND ME WHEN MY CAR LOST POWER. I HAD MY SHIFTER REPLACED LAST YEAR YET IT'S STILL CAUSING ME PROBLEMS.

SERVICE SHIFTIER MESSAGE APPEARS ON DISPLAY ABOUT EVERY 50 MILES. DISAPPEARS WHEN ENGINE IS SHUT OFF AND RESTARTED. HAD REPAIRED AT JEEP DEALER. PROBLEM HAS REAPPEARED AGAIN.

THIS CAR BURNS OIL AT AN EXTREME RATE, I'VE HAD IT CHECKED OUT FOR CONSUMPTION TESTS AFTER EVERY 1,000 MILES- IT IS ALWAYS LOW ON OIL. WITH NO ANSWERS FROM JEEP WHO IS PERFORMING THESE TASKS. CURRENTLY THE CAR HAS BEEN SINCE ABOUT 25,000 MILES- (IM SITTING AT 51,000 NOW) SHAKING BETWEEN GEARS, THE RPM GAUGE TAC JUMPS AROUND, THE CAR SEEMS TO STRUGGLE RUNNING. EVERY TIME THE CAR IS TAKEN IN - I'M TOLD THE CAR IS RUNNING CORRECTLY EVEN WITH HIGH OIL CONSUMPTION AS WELL AS ISSUES WITH TRANSMISSION AND THAT THIS IS JEEPS STANDARD. I HAVE YET TO HAVE ANYTHING RESOLVED SINCE I'VE BEEN TOLD THERE ARE ZERO PROBLEMS OR THE DEALERSHIP CANNOT REPLICATE THE ISSUES I'VE HAD. A LESS THAN 3 YEAR OLD CAR SHOULD NOT BE BURNING MORE THAN A QUART OF OIL EVERY 1,000 MILES. THIS IS A CAR THAT HAS A STANDARD OF GETTING OIL CHANGES EVERY 6,000 MILES. HOW IS THIS FOLLOWING JEEPS STANDARD. IF I FOLLOWED THIS STANDARD I WOULD BE PULLING MY CAR INTO A DEALERSHIP EVERY RECOMMENDED 6,000 MILES WITH ZERO OIL. I'VE HAD A STARTER EXPLODE IN MY ENGINE, HAD IT FIXED FOR IT TO ONLY DO THE SAME ISSUE A WEEK LATER. WHEN IN MOTION MY ENTIRE CAR HOPPS AROUND, ITS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE IT ON THE EXPRESSWAY BECAUSE I KNOW ITS SO DANGEROUS. I CANNOT TRUST THIS CAR GOING OVER 55 MILES AN HOUR. I'VE GIVEN UP HOPE IN JEEP AND STILL CONTINUE TO GET MY REGULAR WORK DONE TO KEEP THE CAR BARELY FUNCTIONING. 51,000 MILES. A CAR THAT AS GOTTEN AN OIL CHANGE EVERY 1,000 MILES THE LAST TWO YEARS. AND HAS HAD COMPLETE REGULAR WORK DONE ON IT. THIS IS NOT OKAY. THIS IS DANGEROUS. *TR

I WAS DRIVING MY 2017 JEEP CHEROKEE AND I RECEIVE AN ALERT ON THE DASHBOARD THAT SAID SERVICE SHIFTER AND THE LIGHTS ON PRND WERE LIGHT UP AND NOT BLINKING. THE CAR WAS IN MOTION WHEN THIS HAPPENED AND IT SHUT DOWN. I WAS ACTUALLY ON A CITY STREET TWICE WHEN THIS OCCURRED. I ALSO RECEIVE ANOTHER ALERT TELLING ME TO PUT THE CAR IN PARK BEFORE SHIFTING GEARS. THE CAR WAS IN MOTION ON A CITY STREET AND THE CAR SHUT OFF. I HAD TO WAIT ABOUT 10 MINS BEFORE I STARTED MY CAR UP AND PRESS THE GAS AT THE SAME TIME TO GET THE JEEP TO START.

WE WERE DRIVING FROM TALLAHASSEE TO CAPE CANAVERAL FLORIDA. AS WE NEARED GAINESVILLE THE CAR HANDLING BECAME ERRATIC. AT THE TIME WE WERE ON THE INTERSTATE AND TRAVELING AT NORMAL HIGHWAY SPEED IN HEAVY TRAFFIC. WE STOPPED IN GAINESVILLE AT A COOPER DEALER AND THEY SAID A FRONT TIRE TREAD HAD SHIFTED. A NEW TIRE WAS PURCHASED. WE CONTINUED OUR TRIP AND AFTER ABOUT 1 HOUR THE SAME HANDLING PROBLEM OCCURRED JUST AS WE GOT ON THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE.. THE CAR WAS TAKEN TO A COOPER DEALER IN LEE FLORIDA AND WE WERE ADVISED THAT THE OTHER FRONT TIRE HAD FAILED DUE TO THE SAME REASON. TIRES HAD ABOUT 13,00 MILES ON THEM. ANOTHER NEW TIRE WAS PURCHASED. WHEN WE RETURNED HOME I CONTACTED COOPER. THEIR FIRST RESPONSE WAS TO SEE A DEALER. I THEN RECEIVED AN EMAIL STATING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE THE TIRES PICKED UP AND SENT TO THEIR FACTORY. ANOTHER EMAIL WAS THEN RECEIVED SAYING TO SEE A DEALER. FOUR COOPER ULTRA TOURING TIRES WERE PURCHASED 04/27/2018. THE TWO FRONT TIRES FAILED ON AUGUST 29/2019. MILEAGE AT PURCHASE WAS JUST OVER 28,000 AND FAILED AT 41,000. TIRES HAD BEEN ROTATED TWICE.

I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND THE SHIFTER WARNING WOULD COME ON. ALL THE LIGHTS ON THE GEAR SHIFT WOULD COME ON IN RED AND I WOULD HAVE TO STOP AND TURN THE CAR OFF TO GET THEM TO RESET. THIS IS ON MY 2017 JEEP CHEROKEE LIMITED.