2001 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE Complaints

VEHICLE WAS PARKED WITH ENGINE RUNNING, AND EMERGENCY BRAKE NOT APPLIED. WHILE FUELING VEHICLE IT SHIFTED FROM PARK INTO REVERSE, AND CAUGHT CONSUMER'S LEG BETWEEN DRIVER'S DOOR AND PROTECTIVE BARRIER OF FUEL PUMP. PROPERTY DAMAGE WAS $ 1555.OO, CONSUMER SUFFERED INJURIES TO RIGHT LEG. VEHICLE WAS RENTED FROM ENTERPRISE.*AK

PE 01-021/ROLL AWAY IN PARK: WHILE PARKED AND IDLING, VEHICLE INADVERTENTLY JUMPED OUT OF GEAR AND COMMENCED TO ROLL BACKWARD ONTO DRIVER'S FOOT WHILE HE WAS OPENING AN ENTRANCE GATE. VEHICLE CONTINUED ON INTO WOODED AREA BEFORE STOPPING. DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. *AK *JB

ON THE ROAD IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, I PUT MY JEEP INTO PARK WITH THE ENGINE IDLING. I GOT OUT OF THE JEEP, WALKED UP MY DRIVEWAY AND PICKED UP MY NEWSPAPER. WHEN I TURNED AROUND I SAW MY JEEP ROLL UP OVER THE CURB AND ACROSS MY FRONT LAWN. I RAN AFTER THE JEEP AND JUST AS I WAS JUMPING INTO THE DRIVER SEAT, I WAS KNOCKED OUT OF THE JEEP, WHEN THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR CRASHED INTO A STREET LAMP POST AND SMASHED INTO ME. MY JEEP ROLLED DOWN THE ROAD AND THROUGH NEIGHBOR'S YARDS FOR APPROXIMATELY .2 OF A MILE. MY JEEP CASHED INTO AND DAMAGED A CABLE AND TELEPHONE UTILITY BOX, TWO SECTIONS OF A WROUGHT IRON FENCE, 2 SECTIONS OF A WOODEN PRIVACY FENCE, BUSHES, ONE TREE, AN ELECTRIC OUTLET AND TWO CLAPBOARDS ON THE BOTTOM OF A HOUSE. WHEN I FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO MY JEEP IT WAS STILL IDLING AND THE GEAR SHIFT WAS IN PARK.*AK

WHILE IDLING CAR DROPPED FROM PARK TO DRIVE, PINNING ME AGAINST REAR OF GARAGE AND CRUSHING SNOWBLOWER. CAR HAD TO BE IN PARK FOR ME TO GET OUT SINCE CAR ROLLS WHEN IN GEAR WITHOUT BRAKES. *AK

PURCHASED THE JEEP IN SEPTEMBER-1ST INCIDENT OCCURRED SEPT 30-ENGINE CUT OFF. TROUBLE LIGHT INDICATED NO OIL. TOOK JEEP INTO DEALER I WAS TOLD IT WAS A LOSE ELECTRICAL SWITCH. 2ND INCIDENT JEEP HAD A SIZZLING SOUND FROM ENGINE AREA LIKE AIR ESCAPING FROM VALVE OR MANIFEST. THE BRAKES HAD A CLICKING SOUND WHEN PRESSED. TOOK IN FOR REPAIR TO DEALER. THE DEALER-PREBUL JEEP REPLACES THE GEAR BOX WITHOUT INFORMING ME OF THE RECALL. I WAS NOT INFORMED OF A RECALL WHEN I PURCHASED THE JEEP. NOW THE ENGINE SOUNDS LIKE A RACE CAR, CAR SHAKES WHEN IDLE,WHEN CHANGING GEARS SOUND IS HARSH LIKE SOMETHING IS TEARING, AND THE BRAKES CLICK. I WAS TOLD BY PREBUL REPAIR THAT THERE WAS NO PROBLEMS NOW AND ALL THE JEEPS SOUND LIKE THAT. THE JEEP NOW DRIVES VERY ROUGH. I HAVE OWNED A JEEP PREVIOUSLY AND IT NEVER SOUND LIKE THIS ONE.*AK

JEEP WAS LEFT RUNNING IN PARK. AFTER APPROXIMATELY 2 MINUTES VEHICLE SHIFTED FROM PARK TO REVERSE AND PROCEED AT A RELATIVELY FAST SPEED IN A CIRCULAR DIRECTION FOR ABOUT 100 YARDS UNTIL IT STRUCK A PARKED 5TH WHEEL TRAILER. IT CAUSED SEVERE DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLES. IT NARROWLY MISSED SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE AREA. WHEN I CONTACTED JEEP THEY STATED THAT THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE A PROBLEM. *AK

BRAKE ROTORS HAVE NOT TOTALLY FAILED; HOWEVER, WITHIN A YEAR THEY HAVE BECOME WARPED AND CAUSE MY STEERING WHEEL TO SHAKE WHEN I ATTEMPT TO STOP.*AK

WHILE DRIVING ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A RIGHT HAND TURN STEERING WHEEL BECAME STIFF AND DIFFICULT TO CONTROL, VEHICLE MERGED INTO ANOTHER LANE. *AK AND HIT POST SIGN, DAMAGE TO FRONT DRIVER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE, THERE WAS AN NHTSA RECALL BULLETIN FOR 2001 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE MANUFACTURED IN NOV AND DEC, 2000. AN INTERNAL NUT IN THE STEERING GEAR ASSEMBLY COULD LOOSEN AND CAUSE STEERING TO LOCK UP. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. *ET

SEVERE STEERING WHEEL WOBBLE DURING MODERATE BRAKING CAUSING SOME LOSS OF CONTROL. A PRIVATE BRAKE SPECIALIST RECOMMENDED THE ROTORS BE REPLACED DUE TO WARPING. THE DEALER SAYS THIS IS NORMAL WEAR EVEN THOUGH THE BRAKE PADS ARE ONLY HALF WORN.

WHILE VEHICLE WAS PARKED AND STILL RUNNING, HAD SHIFTED INTO REVERSE WITH FOOT ON BRAKES, AND VEHICLE SUDDENLY ACCELERATED BACKWARDS. STRUCK A TRUCK AND ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT WAS PARKED. *AK ONE PERSON WAS INJURED IN ACCIDENT. *SLC