2015 JEEP CHEROKEE Complaints

VERY ROUGH SHIFT WHEN ACCELERATING I.E. ENTERING A HIGHWAY FROM AN ON RAMP. HAPPENS CONTINUALLY.

ENGINE DIES WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD & AFTER 10-15 MINUTES VEHICLE WILL START. THIS HAS HAPPENED NUMEROUS TIMES & EACH TIME I HAVE BROUGHT IT BACK TO NORMANDIN JEEP IN SAN JOSE, CA. OF COURSE IT IS RUNNING EACH TIME WHEN I GET TO THE DEALERSHIP & I ALWAYS GET THE SAME STORY. LOW OIL OR OIL PRESSURE. I CURRENTLY HAVE LESS THAN 40,000 MILES ON THE JEEP & MY FIRST INCIDENT BEGAN WITH 15,000 MILES ......... THEN AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN. I LIVE IN SILICON VALLEY & HAVE A ONE YEAR OLD SON. THE FREEWAYS ARE BUSY AND THIS HAS BECOME A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACCORDING TO MY ONLINE RESEARCH ........ THIS IS AN INHERENT PROBLEM WITH THE JEEP CHEROKEE ..........BUT ........ THE DEALERSHIP DOES NOT WANT TO ADMIT THIS. ON MY LAST VISIT ABOUT A MONTH AGO (LESS THAN 40,000 ON ODOMETER) THEY (NORMANDIN) TOLD ME THE PROBLEM WAS WITH THE OIL PRESSURE SENDING UNIT & THIS WOULD NOT BE COVERED UNDER WARRANTY ..........EVEN THOUGH THIS ISSUE BEGAN A COUPLE YEARS AGO. SERVICE MANAGER SAID THAT BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN AN ONGOING PROBLEM .......... HE WOULD REPLACE THE UNIT AND CHARGE ME ONLY $100. WITH A JOB & A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD ..... I CERTAINLY DID NOT HAVE THE TIME TO ARGUE. THEY REPLACED THE UNIT & FILLED MY JEEP WITH OIL AND I LEFT THE DEALERSHIP. WELL ............ MY JEEP JUST STRANDED ME AGAIN . SAME PROBLEM & I KEEP CALLING THE DEALERSHIP (FOR THE PAST 5 DAYS) AND THE SERVICE MANAGER HAS NOT RETURNED MY CALL. I SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE THE TIME FOR THIS. PLUS I AM SCARED TO BE ON THE ROAD TO MY WORK WITH MY YOUNG SON IN THE BACK SEAT (I DROP HIM OFF AT DAY CARE). I WRITE THE NHTSA BECAUSE I'M AWARE THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS ISSUE. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT PERHAPS THEIR LOCAL JEEP DEALER REPAIRS THE PROBLEM ............ WHETHER IT BE WITH A NEW ENGINE OR WHATEVER. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ?

I RECEIVED A NOTICE FOR A RECALL ON MY JEEP CHEROKEE 2015 INVOLVING THE CRUISE CONTROL. I SCHEDULED THE SERVICE AT BILL LUKE JEEP IN TWO WEEKS. THE EVENING BEFORE THE APPOINTMENT I RECEIVED A CALL THAT THEY COULD NOT PERFORM THE SERVICE DUE TO HAVING "TOO MANY" CARS AT THE SHOP. I HAVE NOW MADE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT AT ANOTHER DEALERSHIP. THIS HAS NOW DELAYED MY GETTING THIS CORRECTED BY 10 DAYS.

MY VEHICLE HAS BEGUN STALLING, WITH NO WARNING. WHILE SITTING AT A STOP SIGN OR TRAFFIC LIGHT OR IN SLOW TRAFFIC. IT HAS STALLED ONCE ON A BUSY FREEWAY DURING RUSH HOUR. THE FIRST OCCURENCE WAS FRIDAY 7/13 AT A STOP SIGN JUST SHORTLY AFTER STARTING TO DRIVE; THE NEXT SATURDAY 7/14 AT A STOP SIGN AFTER HAVING DRIVEN APPROXIMATELY 17MILES ON A FREEWAY. THIS TIME IT WAS DIFFICULT TO START AND THE GEAR SHIFT WOULD NOT MOVE. THEN WEDNESDAY 7/18 I DON'T RECALL THE CONDITIONS. THEN ON FRIDAY JULY 20 IT STOPPED WHILE I WAS DRIVING IN HEAVY TRAFFIC ON THE FREEWAY DURING RUSH HOUR. THE ISSUE CONTINUES. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO PATTERN - HAS HAPPENED WHEN FIRST STARTING THE VEHICLE, AFTER HAVING DRIVEN FOR SEVERAL MILES - SO IS NOT A "COLD" OR "HOT" ENGINE PROBLEM. THERE ARE NO ENGINE WARNING LIGHTS AND NO PHYSICAL WARNING SIGNS - IT JUST STOPS. I HAVE TAKEN IT TO THE DEALER TWICE. THEY HAVE HAD IT FOR A TOTAL OF 3 DAYS AND SAY THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. THIS IS DANGEROUS IF IT CONTINUES TO STALL ON THE FREEWAY IN HEAVY TRAFFIC.

TODAY BEING 7/26/2018. TODAY MY VEHICLE JUST SHUT DOWN WHILE COMING TO A STOP SIGN IN THE MORNING, AND AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN MAKING A U-TURN. AND FOR ABOUT 2 WEEKS BEFORE, A FEW TIMES I FELT THE ENGINE ATTEMPT TO SHUT OFF WHEN COMING TO STOP SIGNS AND LIGHTS, WHICH THE VEHICLE SHAKING WOULD TAKE PLACE AND THE MOTOR SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS GOING TO DIE. IN THE CASE OF TRANSMISSION, FOR THE PAST MONTH IN RANDOM MOMENTS WHILE STOPPED AT AN INCLINE OR TURNING ONTO AN INCLINE STREET, THE GEARS WOULD DELAY SHIFTING INTO THE NEXT GEAR, AND IT WOULD SOUND LIKE RPM WAS REACHING HIGHER THAN NORMAL ROTATIONS BEFORE ACTUALLY SHIFTING INTO THE NEXT GEAR, THE CAR JERKING FROM THE CATCH. ALL EVENTS OCCURRED WHILE VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION, ON STREETS, BOTH WHEN TURNING OR STOPPING, OR INCLINE CLIMB INVOLVED.

CAR WAS IN MY DRIVEWAY PARKED FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS WHEN MY NEIGHBOR HEARD A LOUD EXPLOSION LOOKED OUT AND SEEN THAT MY CAR WAS ON FIRE SHE THEN CALLED 911 AND CAME AN WOKE US UP TO GET US OUT OF THE HOME. WE ALL MADE IT OUT SAFELY AS THE CAR KEPT EXPLODING 3 MORE TIMES CAR WAS A LOSS AND HOME WAS DAMAGED THE CAR AT THE TIME OF THE FIRE AS WE WAS TRYING TO PUT IT OUT WITH WATER HOSES THE WINDSHIELD WHIPPERS WAS GOING HEADLIGHTS WAS FLASHING HORN WAS HONKING DOORS WAS LOCKING AND UNLOCKING THE CAR WAS SETTING IN MY DRIVEWAY WITH NO KEYS IN IT AND WINDOWLS UP AND LOCKED ONLY HAD THIS CAR 5 MONTHS. BOUGHT IT 02/24/18

JEEP CHEROKEE TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS WHILE IN PARK, OR STOPPED AT A LIGHT OR EVEN SHIFTING TO REVERSE THE JEEP SHIFTER WILL LIGHT UP ALL LIGHTS AND DISPLAY "SERVICE SHIFTER" MESSAGE.

WHILE IN MOTION, THE VEHICLE SHUTS OFF WITHOUT WARNING. A MESSAGE ON THE DASH SAYS PUT THE CAR IN PARK TO START. THE CAR CONSUMES LARGE AMOUNTS OF SYNTHETIC OIL, WHICH SHOULD LAST UP TO 6 MONTHS BUT ONLY LASTS BETWEEN 700-1000 MILES PER QUART. THE OIL LIGHT DOES NOT COME ON INDICATING THAT THE OIL IS LOW. IT FLASHES ACROSS THE SCREEN TOO FAST FOR THE DRIVER TO SEE THE WARNING. WHEN THE OIL IS LOW, THE CAR BEGINS TO SHUT ITSELF OFF WHILE IN MOTION. THIS HAS HAPPENED WHILE DRIVING AT BOTH HIGH AND LOW RATES OF SPEED ON CITY STREETS AND A HIGHWAY DURING RUSH OUR TRAFFIC, NEARLY CAUSING A COLLISION WITH VEHICLES BEHIND ME.

WHEN JEEP IS RUNNING IT MAKES A LOUD SOUND, YOU CAN HEAR IT INSIDE THE CAR, AT 10 MPH IS SOUNDS LIKE RAAA RAAA RAAA RAAAA, AT 20 MPH IT SOUNDS LIKE RA RA RA RA RA , AT 60 MPH IT SOUNDS LIKE RARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARA. SOUNDS LIKE IT'S COMING FROM UNDER THE CAR, A ROTATING SOUND THAT JUST GETS LOUDER AS YOU DRIVE FASTER. WE COULD NEVER USE THIS CAR FOR A TRIP, WE WOULD BE DEAF BY THE TIME WE GOT BACK. WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT GO AWAY IF WE GOT NEW TIRES, HAD FIRESTONE AT & WE BOUGHT MICHELIN DEFENDER LTX DUE TO LOW NOISE OF TIRE. NO LUCK, NOISE IS STILL THERE. WE GO TO DEALER FOR ALL SERVICE & ARE TOLD ITS A JEEP THING, REALLY? THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED, PLEASE LOOK INTO IT AS WE ARE SLOWLY LOSING OUR HEARING. IT STARTED MAKING THIS NOISE IN 2015, BOUGHT IN JANUARY 2015 AND CONTINUES TO THIS VERY DAY, JULY 16, 2028. I HATE THIS CAR & FOR $40,000 IT SHOULD BE A HECK OF A LOT BETTER. AND THIS WAS OUR 2ND JEEP, WE HAD A 2001 WITHOUT ONE PROBLEM FOR 12 YEARS.

THE FAN BELT SHREDDED AT 37,000 MILES. I BELIEVE THE PULLEYS WERE PART OF THE PROBLEM. DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, THE BELT SHREDDED. IT STARTED OVERHEATING QUICKLY.