2001 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE Complaints

VEHICLE HAS A TICKING SOUND WHEN T APPROACHING A HILL. ALSO, TRANSMISSION HAS A HARD DRIVE. DEALERSHIP IS AWARE OF PROBLEM. *AK

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS PRIOR TO ACCIDENT, ALWAYS UNDER FIVE MILES AN HOUR, I WOULD STEP N THE BRAKE AND THE CAR WANTED TO KEEP GOING. ON THE OCCASION OF THE ACCIDENT, I APPLIED BOTH FEET TO THE BRAKES AND THE VEHICLE DID NOT STOP AND HIT A CHAIN LINK FENCE. AN INVSESTIGATOR FROM CHRYSLER CHECK THE VEHICLE ON 8/29/01 AND INDICATED THAT THE ONLY THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IS THAT THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL SITS HIGH THAN THE BRAKE PEDAL AND I HIT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. MY FOOT IS NOT WIDE ENOUGH TO HIT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. IN A PREVIOUS INCIDENT, I WAS IN PARK , PUT THE VEHICLE INTO REVERSE AND IT LERCHED BACKWARD. THE INVESTIGATOR COULD ONLY DUPLICATE THE SITUATION BY PUTTING HIS FOOT ON BOTH THE BRACK AND ACCELERATOR AT THE SAME TIME. THIS VEHICLE IS UNSAFE AND I AM AFRAID TO DRIVE IT.*AK

VEHICLE WAS PARKED AND RUNNING INSIDE GARAGE. CONSUMER WAS ATTACHING A BOAT TO VEHICLE, AND HE WAS ON A HILL. VEHICLE JUMPED INTO REVERSE, AND BACKED OUT OF GARAGE WITH BOAT, AND PINNED CONSUMER DOWN. *AK

VEHICLE WAS PULLED INTO GARAGE AND WAS SHIFTED INTO PARK. OWNER'S HUSBAND STEPPED OUT OF THE VEHICLE AT WHICH TIME IT SHIFTED INTO REVERSE ON IT'S OWN SLAMMING THE OPEN DRIVERS SIDE DOOR INTO THE GARAGE WALL. THIS SLOWED THE VEHICLE LONG ENOUGH FOR HIM TO JUMP IN AND PUT ON THE BRAKE. SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE WAS DONE TO DRIVERS SIDE DOOR REQUIRING BODY WORK. NO RESPONSE FROM MANUFACTURER TO DATE.*AK

WHILE IDLING, GEAR SHIFTER JUMPED FROM PARK TO REVERSE. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED.*AK *JB

CONSUMER IS UNABLE TO CONTROL VEHICLE WHILE DRIVING, THE STEERING WHEEL PULSATES WHEN BRAKING, CONSUMER WAS INFORMED THAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH PREMATURE WARPAGE OF ROTORS IN WHICH DEALER IS AWARE OF AND IS WILLING TO TURN CONSUMERS ROTORS FREE OF CHARGE OR PURCHASE TWO NEW ROTORS AT CONSUMERS EXPENSE, HOWEVER CONSUMER WAS INFORMED THAT TURNING OF THE ROTORS WOULD NOT LAST AND THE PROBLEM WOULD REOCCUR.*JB

CONSUMER STATES WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE BRAKE TO SHIFT INTO REVERSE THE MOTOR BEGAN TO ROAR AND THE VEHICLE LURCHED BACKWARD NO MATTER HOW HARD THE BRAKE WAS PRESSED, CONSUMER IMMEDIATELY PULLED THE SHIFT DOWNWARD AND THE VEHICLE LURCHED FOWARD WITH THE MOTOR STILL ROARING AND HIS FOOT STILL PRESSING ON THE BRAKE, AFTER TRAVELING ABOUT TWENTY FEET THE MOTOR REVERTED TO IDLE.*JB

UPON ENTERING THE VEHICLE AND CLOSING THE DOOR THE CONSUMER USES THE POWER LOCKS TO LOCK THE DOORS, WHETHER THE VEHICLE IS IN PARK OR DRIVE, BOTH THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER DOOR UNLOCK AUTOMATICALLY BY SIMPLY PULLING ON THE INSIDE DOOR HANDLES, THE CONSUMER BELIEVES THIS IS A SAFETY HAZARD. NLM

CONSUMER STATES THAT WHEN PRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL HARD IT GOES DOWN BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE GAS PEDAL, IF HIS FOOT IS NOT POSITIONED PERFECTLY, HE HITS BOTH THE BRAKE PEDAL AND ACCELERATOR CAUSING UNWANTED ACCELERATION. *SLC

WHILE MOTOR WAS STILL RUNNING CONSUMER GOT OUT AND OPENED GATE. VEHICLE STARTED MOVING IN REVERSE WHILE IN PARK.CONSUMER SHIFTED TO DRIVE AND VEHICLE WAS STILL MOVING IN REVERSE. THEN, SHIFTED VEHICLE INTO PARK WITH FOOT ON BRAKE, CUT VEHICLE OFF TWICE, AND IT KEPT GOING IN REVERSE. SECOND TIME, UPON STARTING VEHICLE, IT WOULDN'T START UP. HAD TO BE TOWED TO DEALER. TOW TRUCK DRIVER POINTED OUT THAT ELECTRICAL WIRES WERE BURNED, AND PLUG BENEATH WHEN IT WAS TOWED FIRST TIME, WAS GONE. VEHICLE AT DEALERSHIP.*AK