2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee

I HAVE TWO PROBLEMS WITH THE VEHICLE THAT MAKE IT UNSAFE TO DRIVE. THE FIRST IS THAT THE ENGINE RANDOMLY STALLS. MOST OF THE TIME IT STALLS WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STOPPED. SOMETIMES IT STALLS AT VERY SLOW SPEEDS. WHEN STOPPED, SOMETIMES I HEAR A "THUNK" RIGHT BEFORE IT STALLS LIKE IT WAS TRYING TO GO INTO GEAR. IT HAS DONE THIS RUNNING IN PARK AND WHEN THE BRAKE IS PRESSED WHILE IN DRIVE. IT HAS STALLED ON ME IN BUSY INTERSECTIONS PUTTING ME IN UNSAFE SITUATIONS. TURNING THE KEY ALL THE WAY OFF AND BACK ON WILL RESTART IT. THE SECOND ISSUE IS THAT THE TRANSMISSION RANDOMLY GETS STUCK IN 4TH GEAR. IT HAPPENS MOST OFTEN WHEN A LOT OF POWER HAS BEEN APPLIED FROM STOP. BUT IT ALSO HAPPENS RANDOMLY. WHEN IT OCCURS, I PULL OVER AND STOP THE ENGINE TURNING THE KEY ALL THE WAY OFF. USUALLY WHEN I RESTART IT WILL GO BACK TO DRIVE AND ALL THE GEARS IN THE TRANSMISSION FUNCTION NORMALLY. THE ISSUE IS SO CHRONIC NOW WITH THE TRANSMISSION THAT IT IMMEDIATELY GOES INTO 4TH AND THE VEHICLE IS NOT DRIVABLE. IT IS AT THE DEALER NOW. THE DEALER PULLED CODES AND RECOMMENDS REPLACING THE TRANSMISSION SOLENOID PACK. THIS PART IS CURRENTLY ON NATIONAL BACKORDER AND THERE IS NO ETA OF WHEN THE PART WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE DEALER. ALSO THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS PART WILL FIX THE TRANSMISSION PROBLEM. IF IT DOESN'T, THE VEHICLE WILL REQUIRE A NEW TRANSMISSION. THEY ARE NOT EVEN LOOKING AT THE STALLING PROBLEM UNTIL THE TRANSMISSION PROBLEM IS RESOLVED. THE STALLING PROBLEM IS VERY SERIOUS AND I CANNOT CONFIDENTLY USE THE VEHICLE WITHOUT FEARING PUTTING CHILDREN IN AN UNSAFE SITUATION. THERE SHOULD BE A SAFETY RECALL BY CHRYSLER ON THESE VEHICLES. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 4X4. WHILE THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 65 MPH, THE ENTIRE INSTRUMENT PANEL ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY. THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY BEGAN TO DECELERATE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTING ON TWO OCCASIONS FOR THE SIMILAR FAILURE. THE TECHNICIAN STATED THE PROBLEM COULD POSSIBLY BE CONTRIBUTED TO THE ESM OR EITHER THE PCM. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE DEFECT. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 50,000. THE VIN WAS UNAVAILABLE.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 4X4. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 60 MPH, THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO JERK AND THEN THE SPEED BEGAN TO REDUCE TO 20 MPH UNINTENDEDELY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THEY STATED THAT THE FAILURE WAS CONTRIBUTED TO A FAULTY ELECTRONIC SHIFT CONTROL MODULE. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THERE WAS NOT A RECALL RELATED TO THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 54,000. THE VIN WAS UNAVAILABLE.

WAS ATTEMPTING TO MERGE ONTO A BUSY FREEWAY AND ACCELERATED UP TO 60MPH WHEN THE JEEP SUDDENLY SLAMMED INTO SECOND GEAR AND REFUSED TO SHIFT. I COULDN'T GET IT TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN "LIMP" VERY ROUGHLY TO THE SHOULDER. IF PEOPLE HADN'T SLOWED DOWN I WOULD HAVE BEEN BUSTED FROM SEVERAL POINTS. TOOK IT TO THE LOCAL JEEP DEALERSHIP AND THEY TOLD ME THAT IT HAPPENS WITH JEEP GRAND CHEROKEES ALL THE TIME AND THAT THEY RECOMMENDED REPLACING THE ESM BUT STATED THAT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS FIX THE PROBLEM AND THAT THEY'VE REPLACED THOUSANDS ONLY TO HAVE IT RECUR MONTHS LATER. THIS IS GOING TO GET SOMEONE KILLED. *TR

WHILE PULLING OUT OF A GAS STATION INTO HEAVY TRAFFIC, I BEGAN ACCELERATING TO THE SPEED LIMIT OF 45 MPH. I WAS ACCELERATING RAPIDLY AS TRAFFIC WAS COMING QUICKLY FROM BEHIND. THE JEEP STOPPED ACCELERATING AND THE INSTRUMENT PANEL SHOWED ALL OF THE DRIVE LETTERS WITH BOXES AROUND THEM. THE JEEP WOULD NOT ACCELERATE FOR OVER 20 SECONDS, CAUSING ME TO RAPIDLY PULL OFF OF THE ROAD TO AVOID TRAFFIC BEHIND ME. THE DEALER FOUND A FAULTY ELECTRONIC SHIFT MODULE AND REPLACED IT. THE VEHICLE HAS WORKED WELL UNTIL 2/15/12. AT 70,000 MILES, THE DEALER INSTALLED MODULE HAS FAILED AGAIN. ONCE MORE THIS HAPPENED WHEN ENTERING A HEAVY TRAFFIC ROADWAY. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS THROUGHOUT THE INTERNET OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THIS SAME ISSUE. IN MY CASE, BOTH FAILURES RESULTED IN ME HAVING TO TAKE EVASIVE ACTION TO AVOID A COLLISION. I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS SEEMINGLY COMMON PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE TREMENDOUS SAFETY PROBLEM IT . *TR

WAS PULLING FROM A STOP SIGN WHEN THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY SHIFTED TO FOURTH GEAR WITHOUT TOUCHING SHIFT LEFT LEVER CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO ACCELERATE VERY SLOW AND WAS ALMOST HIT BY CROSS TRAFFIC BECAUSE I COULD NOT GET OUT OF THE WAY, LUCKILY THEY SWERVED AROUND ME. I HAVE READ MULTIPLE COMPLAINTS OF SAME PROBLEM WITH SHIFTING OUT OF CONTROL. IT MUST BE A MANUFACTURER DEFECT. IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR AN ALERT DRIVER THE SITUATION MIGHT HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY FOR MY FAMILY AND I. JEEP NEEDS TO REMEDY THIS PROBLEM BEFORE SOMEBODY IS KILLED. *TR

THE "SHIFTER MODULE" IS CLEARLY DEFECTIVE AND IS A SERIOUS SAFETY HAZARD. MY WIFE AND KIDS WERE IN THE CAR WHEN IT FIRST STARTING ACTING UP. LUCKILY, THEY WERE JUST LEAVING THE DRIVEWAY AND NO OTHER CARS WERE COMING DOWN THE STREET. THE TRANSMISSION MALFUNCTIONED. ON THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER "TRANSMISSION OVERTEMP" WAS FLASHING, AND ALL OF THE OTHER WARNING LIGHTS ILLUMINATED ON THE CLUSTER. WHEN I BROUGHT THE CAR TO MY LOCAL DEALER, A PARTS REPRESENTATIVE TOLD ME THAT HE HAS HAD TO REPLACE SO MANY OF THESE SHIFTER MODULES THAT HE'S MEMORIZED THE PART # (NOT KIDDING). HE TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM AND THAT THEIR SHOP SWAPS OUT THE DEFECTIVE JEEP SHIFTER MODULES WITH MERCEDES SHIFTER MODULES. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS REPAIR COST ME WELL OVER $1000.00. BOTTOM LINE - MY WIFE DRIVES THIS CAR AROUND TOWN. I DON'T HAVE A TOW HITCH, AND I PAMPER THIS CAR. STILL, JEEP REFUSED TO REIMBURSE ME FOR THIS COSTLY REPAIR. I HAVE CALLED CHRYSLER ABOUT THIS, BUT CHRYSLER WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THIS DEFECTIVE PART. YET, ON REPUTABLE AUTO FORUMS, MANY OTHER OWNERS HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE SAME EXACT SHIFTER MODULE DEFECT. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6) *TT

I PURCHASED THIS VEHICLE ON DECEMBER 14, 2011. ABOUT THREE WEEKS LATER IN A PARKING LOT, WE NOTICED THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT ACCELERATE EVEN THOUGH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS PUSHED VIRTUALLY ALL THE WAY DOWN. A FEW DAYS LATER THE ENGINE WARNING LIGHT CAME ON. THEN THE LACK OF ACCELERATION HAPPENED ON THE INTERSTATE. MY MECHANIC CLEARED THE ENGINE WARNING LIGHT BUT IT CAME BACK ON A FEW DAYS LATER. I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH AND IT APPEARS THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM ON JEEP VEHICLES. THE PROBLEM IS A FAILURE OF THE ELECTRONIC SHIFT MODULE. IT IF VERY EXPENSIVE TO HAVE REPLACED. MY LOCAL DEALERSHIP CHARGED ME $924 PLUS TAX. AS MANY COMMENTS AS I HAVE SEEN ON THIS AND THE FACT THAT LACK OF ACCELERATION IS A SAFETY ISSUE, JEEP SHOULD NOT HESITATE IN ISSUING A RECALL. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE. THE CONTACT WAS DRIVING 65 MPH WHEN ALL OF THE WARNING LAMPS ILLUMINATED AND THE VEHICLE STALLED. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE VEHICLE AFTER SEVERAL MOMENTS. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE SHIFT MODULE WAS DEFECTIVE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE WHO STATED THAT THEY WOULD CONTACT HER AT A LATER DATE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 44,433.