2016 JEEP RENEGADE Complaints

THE BRAKES SQUEAL CONSTANTLY. WE NOTICED IT SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASE BUT ASSUMED IT WAS FROM BEING A NEW VEHICLE. AFTER OWNING THE VEHICLE FOR A YEAR, WE TOOK IT IN TO HAVE THE BRAKES AND ROTERS REPLACED. WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF PADDING REMAINING. THE SQUEALING OCCURS WHENEVER YOUR FOOT IS ON THE BREAK, REGARDLESS IF YOU ARE STILL OR SLOWING.

I'VE BEEN COMPLAINING SINCE I'VE OWNED THE CAR ABOUT ELECTRICAL ISSUES WITH THE RADIO LIGHT PANEL INCLUDING THE SERVICE PANEL ON THE VEHICLE THAT TELLS ABOUT THE AIR IN THE TIRES AND ALL THE MAINTENANCE , AS WELL IS STATING THAT IT SEEMS LIKE HE HAS AN ELECTRICAL SHORT INSIDE THE DASH SOMEWHERE NOW THE FAN ON THE RADIATOR HAS CAUGHT ON FIRE AND HAS LEFT ME WITHOUT A VEHICLE THIS ISSUE STARTED 10 DAYS AFTER BUYING THE VEHICLE IT ONLY HAD 7000 MILES ON IT THEN AND WAS HAVING NUMEROUS ELECTRICAL ISSUES CAUSING THE RADIO TO MALFUNCTION AND THE PANELING THAT CONTROLS THE SERVICE AND THE MILEAGE AND THE ODOMETER READING'S AS WELL AS THE TIRE PRESSURE THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AS A WHOLE HAS BEEN MALFUNCTIONING AS WELL AS THE RADIO AND NOW THE FIRE IN THE VAN AND JEEP HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP ME THEY'VE IGNORED ME FOR SIX DAYS OF CONSTANT CONTACT LEFT ME STRANDED AND LEFT MY THREE KIDS AND ICE 🚑🚓 WALKING HOME ON THE INTERSTATE 15 MILES TO GET HOME WITH NO RENTAL CAR NO HELP THEY HAVE COSTLY IGNORE MY PHONE CALLS THE DEALERSHIPS HERE WON'T HELP ME FIX IT BECAUSE HE SAID IT'S OUT OF WARRANTY BUT I'VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS ISSUE LONG BEFORE THE WARRANTY WAS OUT BUT THEY HAVE IGNORED ME NOR MY COMPLAINTS AND TRY TO ACT LIKE IT'S NOT A PROBLEMWE WERE DRIVING THE VEHICLE WHEN IT CAUGHT ON FIRE AND WE WERE DRIVING THE VEHICLE AND IT SEEMED AS IF AFTER THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVING IN A MOTION FOR ABOUT 5 TO 7 MINUTES THE PROBLEMS WOULD START UP AND IT WOULD LAST THE WHOLE TIME I WAS DRIVING IT

WHEN DRIVING MY VEHICLE SEPTEMBER 29 2017. MY 1.3 YEAR OLD RENEGADES CHECK ENGINE LIGHT TURNED ON. CALLED TO MAKE APPOINTMENT IMMEDIATELY WITH DEALER. 5 MINUTES LATER THE THE TEMPERATURE SPIKED IN ABOUT 1 SECOND TO AROUND 265 DEGREES. THE TEMPERATURE GAUGE GAVE NO INDICATION OF A RISING TEMPERATURE AND LITERALLY SHOT UP. THE RADIATOR COOLING FAN LOCKED UP. PART IS ON NATIONAL BACKORDER DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WILL GET REPAIRED AND DONT KNOW HOW MUCH ENGINE DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED. SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL ISSUE AS THERE ARE OTHER RENEGADES THAT HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR MONTHS FOR THE SAME PARTS AND HAVE BEEN AT DEALERSHIP FOR MONTHS. WISH JEEP WOULD GIVE ME A REFUND AS VEHICLE ONLY GAS 11800 MILES AND POTENTIALLY GAS CATASPROPHIC DAMAGE. SHOULD BE A RECALL AND FAV SHOULD BUY VEHICLE BACK. TEMPERATURE GAUGE WAS USELESS AS IT ONLY SHOWS THE LEVEL AT NORMAL AND FROM ONE DEGREE TO THE NEXT SHOT TO MAX. ONCE IT WENT DOWN A FEW DEGREES. DROPPED BACKED DOWN TO NORMAL RANGE EVEN THOUGH WAS STILL IN 260 DEGREE RANGE. FAULTY AND UNRELIABLE. MOST LIKELY FCS WILL SAY ENGINE IS FINE THEN IT WILL BREAK DIE DUE TO WARPED OR CRACKED CYLINDER OR HEAD GASKET. VEHICLE WAS IN MOTION ON A CITY STREET IN SEMI STEADY TRAFFIC. GOING IN A STRAIGHT LINE

COOLING FAN FAILED 41000 MILES. FAN KEEPS BLOWING FUSES AND WILL NOT SPIN BY HAND. VEHICLE WILL OVER HEAT IF IN STOP AND GO TRAFFIC.

I BOUGHT THIS CAR A YEAR A AGO. IT IS STILL UNDER WARRENTY. THE RADIATOR IS MESSED UP AND CAR IS OVER HEATED. IT SHOWS CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. BUT DEALERSHIP IS SAYING IT COULD TAKE THEM MONTHS . WHY DO NOT THEY RECALL ALL THE CARS??

ON TUESDAY 9/6 MY RENEGADE WAS MAKING A CLICKING NOISE AND STARTED SMOKING AND SMELLED LIKE IT WAS OVERHEATING. NO INDICATOR LIGHTS CAME ON. WE CHECKED THE OIL AND IT SMELLED BURNT AND DID NOT REGISTER ON THE DIPSTICK. I CALLED THE DEALER AND WAS TOLD IT WAS BECAUSE THE OIL CHANGE WAS 1000 MILES OVERDUE. WE PUT A QUART OF OIL IN AND THE NOISE STOPPED. WE TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP FOR AN OIL CHANGE AND WERE TOLD THERE WERE NO OTHER PROBLEMS. ONE WEEK LATER ON 9/13 IT MADE THE SAME NOISE AND AGAIN STARTED SMOKING AND SMELLED LIKE IT WAS OVERHEATING. AGAIN NO INDICATED LIGHTS CAME ON. I LET IT COOL A FEW MINUTES THEN DROVE TO MY DESTINATION 2-3 MINES FURTHER. AT THAT TIME THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. I HAD MY VEHICLE TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP WHERE THEY SAID IT WAS A FAN MOTOR. THE PART IS ON BACKORDER UNTIL SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER. MY VEHICLE HAS LESS THAN 39000 MILES AND IS 1 1/2 YEARS OLD.

MY JEEP RENEGADE BEGAN OVER HEATING DUE TO THE RADIATOR FAN FAILURE. MY VEHICLE ISNUNDER WARRANTY AT 20,276 MILES . THE PARTS ARE BACKORDERED FOR MONTHS AND AM NOT BEING OFFERED A LOANER OR GETTING TRUE RESPONSES FROM JEEP ONLY GENERIC WE ARE SORRY FOR YOUR STRUGGLES OF BEING A FAMILY OF 5 WITH DIFFERENT WORK SCHEDULES . CHEERAND BAND ETC. THERE MUST BE A RECALL TO SAVE OTHER OWNERS WITH THIS ISSUE AND ONES THAT WILL ARISE

COOLING FAN ASSEMBLY STOPPED FUNCTIONING AND CAUSED SMOKING AND LOUD NOISE FROM UNDER THE HOOD ACCOMPANIED BY A STRONG CHEMICAL OR BURNING SMELL. THIS HAPPENED WHILE STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT. IMMEDIATELY PULLED TO THE SIDE OF ROAD AND TURNED CAR OFF. NO LEAKING FLUID NOTED BENEATH VEHICLE. CAR TURNED BACK ON AND THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT THEN CAME ON. PART IS BACK ORDERED WITH NO DATE. PER DEALERSHIP, NOT UNDER WARRANTY AND DANGEROUS TO DRIVE. NO LOANER CAR OFFERED.

RADIATOR COOLING FAN FAILURE (SEIZED). PARTS ON BACKORDER LEAD-TIME 2 MONTHS. THIS HAPPENED WHILE DRIVING ON CITY STREETS. HAD A BURNING SMELL WITH SMOKE COMING FROM THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE. STOPPED TO CHECK THE MOTOR, DISCOVERED THE RADIATOR COOLING FAN WAS NOT RUNNING. PUSHED THE FAN BLADE, IT WAS SEIZED. THE WATER TEMP GOT UP TO 250+, HIGH TEMPERATURE LIGHT CAME ON, STOPPED AND LET IT COOL DOWN ENOUGH TO GET IT TO THE DEALERSHIP. COOLED TO 130, DROVE APPROX. 5 MILES TO THE DEALERSHIP AND LEFT IT AT THE NIGHT DROP (SUNDAY 9/17/2017).

DRIVING HOME FROM WORK, I WAS STATIONARY ON A COTY STREET WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC, WAITING AT THE LIGHT TO MAKE A LEFT TURN. WHEN THE LIGHT CHANGED, I LET OFF THE BRAKE AND AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF APPLYING PRESSURE TO THE GAS PEDAL TO ACCELERATE, THE RENEGADE STALLED WITH NO WARNING, NO WARNING LIGHTS. UNDER 16,000 MILES AND NOT DUE FOR AN OIL CHANGE FOR AROUND 500 MILES. I HAD TO PUT ON MY FLASHERS, PRESS THE STOP BUTTON AND THEN RESTARTED BY APPLYING MY FOOT TO THE BRAKE AND PUSHING THE START BUTTON. THE DEALER CHECKED THE WIRING HARNESS (PER MY REQUEST AS OTHERS HAVE POSTED HAVING THIS ISSUE AND STATED THE WIRING HARNESS WAS THE PROBLEM). THEY STATED THEY CHECKED EVERYTHING AND FOUND NOTHING OTHER THAN THE RENEGADE TO BE A QUART LOW ON OIL AND THIS WAS THE CAUSE OF THE STALL/ SHUT DOWN. THEY STATED THIS HAS HAPPENED WITH SOME JEEP CHEROKEES AS WELL. THIS IS NOT SAFE AT ALL, TO HAVE A VEHICLE STALL WITH NO WARNING, NO WARNING LIGHTS WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC. I FEEL IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE STALLS AND IS HIT BY ANOTHER DRIVER BECAUSE OF THIS, CAUSING INJURY OR DEATH.