1999 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE Complaints

IDLE GOES UP AND DOWN AT STOP. IDLE GOES UP AND JEEP WILL GAIN SPEED WITHOUT FOOT ON GAS. IDLE GOES UP AND JEEP WILL GAIN SPEED IN REVERSE. IDLE "BURPS" AT STOP AND JEEP JUMPS LIKE IT WAS HIT FROM BEHIND. REAR END WHINES WHILE TRAVELING AND GET LOUDER TILL 75MPH THEN MOSTLY SUBSIDES. TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED ( FOR NO REASON WE COULD TELL) TO STOP WHINE. WHINE CONTINUES IN THE REAR END. DEALER STATES "NORMAL". STEERING WHEEL SHAKES ON EXTREME LEFT OR RIGHT TURNS FORWARD OR REVERSE UNTIL TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED. DEALER STATED SHAKING WAS NORMAL. JEEP HAS 2000 MILES.

THE VEHICLE STALLS INTERMITTENTLY BOTH IN DRIVE AND REVERSE. JEEP STATED THAT THIS IS A SOFTWARE PROBLEM BUT HAS BEEN UNABLE TO CORRECT IT. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS THE VEHICLE WAS ALMOST STRUCK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE WHEN IT STALLED. THE MOST DANGEROUS SITUATIONS HAVE OCCURRED IN INTERSECTIONS AND WHEN DRIVING ON A HILL. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN ENTERING A BUSY ROAD FROM A SIDE ROAD WITH POOR VISIBILITY, THE VEHICLE STALLED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO BACK UP FROM THE INTERSECTION WHEN IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THE VEHICLE WAS ENTERING THE LINE OF TRAFFIC (IT WAS NECESSARY TO ACTUALLY PARTIALLY ENTER THE INTERSECTION TO SEE TRAFFIC COMING FROM THE LEFT. ANOTHER DANGEROUS SITUATION OCCURRED WHEN THE VEHICLE STALLED ON A HILL AND THE DRIVER, WHO WAS INEXPERIENCED, FOUND THE CAR ROLLING BACKWARDS WHEN STEPPING ON THE ACCELERATOR BECAUSE THE VEHICLE HAD STALLED.

INVOLVES "QUADRA-DRIVE" SYSTEM-EXTREME NOISE STARTING AT 45MPH-INCREASES IN VOLUME WITH INCREASED SPEED

DEALER NOT REPAIRING LOUD NOISE OR PAINT DEFECTS ON DELIVERY OF NEW VEHICLE( DOT NUMBER: )

AS MY HUSBAND SHIFTED FROM PARK TO REVERSE, OUR NEW JEEP LURCHED OR ACCELERATED SO QUICKLY THAT THE TIRES SQUEALED AND SMOKED. WE AREN'T SURE IF IT "JUMPED" OUT OF PARK OR IF AS IT WENT INTO REVERSE IT WAS ACCELERATED OR FLOORED. I WAS THROWN FROM THE VEHICLE, SEVERE CONCUSSION, DISLOCATED JAW, ETC... MANUFACTURER AND DEALER HAVE INSPECTED AND FIND THE VEHICLE "MECHANICALLY SOUND". WE ARE AFRAID TO DRIVE IT EVER AGAIN.

4 WHEEL DRIVE QUADRA-DRIVE SYSTEM EXHIBITS GRINDING AND SEVERE SHAKING WHEN TURNING RIGHT OR LEFT. HAS BEEN IN TO DEALER FOR SERVICE 2X SINCE PURCHASE ON 1/11/99. SERVICE MANAGER STATED HE HAS 3 OTHER CARS WITH SAME QUADRA-DRIVE SYSTEM EXHIBITING SIMILAR PROBLEMS. CHRUSLER SERVICE BULLETIN STATES TO REPLACE OIL IN TRANSFER CASE WITH SPECIAL OIL WITH ADDITIVE FROM CHRYSLER. DID THIS 1/29/99, HAD NO EFFECT ON PROBLEM.

VEHICLE SHIFTED OUT OF PARK INTO REVERSE EVEN WITH THE PARK INDICATER POSITIONED IN PARK, RESULTING IN AN ACCIDENT. *AK

VEHICLE BUCKS AND JUMPS DURING LOW SPEED TURNS IN FORWARD AND REVERSE. MAY BE RELATED TO TRANSFER CASE: DEALER INDICATED WRONG FLUIDS INSTALLED AT FACTORY. WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT FUTURE GENERAL FAILURE OR POSSIBLE LOCKUP AND CRASH AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS.

GAS TANK IS NOT EASILY FILLED, GAS NOT ALLOWED INTO VEHICLE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND SPILLS OUT ONTO CONSUMER.

WHILE DRIVING AT 60MPH ON THE HIGHWAY WITHOUT WARRNING THE VEHICLE ENGINE SHUTS DOWN COMPLETLY, CAUSING THE CONSUMER TO COAST THE VEHICLE TO A STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. *AK