2017 Jeep Renegade

WHEN TURNING ON A SNOW COVERED ROAD, SLIGHTLY UP HILL, FROM A COUNTY HIGHWAY INTO A DRIVEWAY AND EXPERIENCING SLIGHT WHEEL SPIN, THE VEHICLE LOST 4-WHEEL DRIVE AND POWER STEERING. THE ESC SYSTEM BECAME DISABLED AND ERROR CODES "SERVICE HILL START ASSIST", "SERVICE ESC SYSTEM" AND "DYNAMIC STEERING TORQUE SERVICE REQUIRED" WERE DISPLAYED AS A MESSAGE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL SCREEN AND THE ESC DISABLED LIGHT WAS TURNED ON. THIS CAUSED MOMENTARY LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL.

WAS DRIVING THIS EVENING, AND GOT ABOUT 2 BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE. AFTER STOPPING AT A STOP SIGN, AND THEN CONTINUING THROUGH, HALFWAY THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, ALL SERVICE LIGHTS CAME ON (SERVICE ELECTRONIC PARKING BRAKE, SERVICE ESC, SERVICE ENGINE, SERVICE TRANSMISSION), AND THEN IT SAID TO SHIFT INTO PARK WHILE I LOST POWER AND HAD TO COAST TO THE CURB. WHEN I GOT TO THE CURB, THE LIGHTS NEXT TO THE SHIFTER (PRND) WERE FLASHING UNTIL I PUT IT IN PARK. I SHUT THE CAR OFF, AND WHEN IT CAME BACK ON, ONLY THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT REMAINED. I PHONED JEEP, AND THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE IT TOWED TO A DEALERSHIP, BUT NONE WERE OPEN, SO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE MORNING, AND HAD TO LEAVE MY CAR ON THE STREET, BECAUSE IF I WENT MORE THAN 10 FEET, THE POWER WOULD GO OUT AGAIN AND WOULD LOSE ACCELERATION. THERE HAVE BEEN ISSUES WITH TRANSMISSION JAMMING INTO GEAR WHEN SLOWING TO A STOP AT A RED LIGHT, AND THEN ACCELERATING WHEN IT TURNS GREEN, AND RANDOMLY IDLING ROUGH. THE ENGINE CODE IS U0001. IF I HAD BEEN ON THE FREEWAY WHEN IT LOST POWER, I WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TIME TO GET OVER TO THE SHOULDER AND COULD HAVE BEEN BADLY HURT OR KILLED IF I GOT HIT BY ANOTHER CAR.

I DECIDED TO START THE VEHICLE WITHOUT USING REMOTE START DUE TO EXTREME COLD CLIMATE SO I COULD WARM IT LONGER THAN REMOTE START WILL ALLOW. LET IT RUN FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES AND GO TO DRIVE OFF AND GET UP TO 25-30MPH AND IT STALLED AND MADE AN EXTREMELY LOUD NOISE AND ROUGH VIBRATION THAT MADE IT FEEL LIKE THE WHOLE ENGINE OR TRANSMISSION FELL OUT OF THE VEHICLE. ALL OF THE LIGHTS LIT UP IN THE DASHBOARD AND I HAD TO STRUGGLE TO STEER IT OFF THE STREET BY COASTING IT. PROCEEDED TO START IT BUT WOULDN'T BUDGE FOR A GOOD 5-10 MIN UNTIL IT FINALLY STARTED BACK UP. IMMEDIATELY TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY CONNECTED THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL TO IT AND SAID NOTHING WAS SHOWING UP AND THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO ABOUT IT. ABOUT A MONTH LATER, IT HAPPENED AGAIN THE EXACT SAME WAY, TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THIS TIME THEY SAID EVERY POSSIBLE ERROR CODE CAME UP AND WERE BAFFLED. THEY WANTED US TO LEAVE THERE AT THE DEALERSHIP FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE THEY COULD GET TO IT AND DID NOT OFFER A LOANER VEHICLE, WE HAD TO TELL THEM THAT WE NEEDED IT OR A LOANER FOR COMMUTE AND SO WE HAD TO KEEP IT, THEY FINALLY GOT TO IT AND FOUND OUT IT WAS THE ECM MODULE, SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE DRIVETRAIN, THEY REPLACED IT AND IT HASN'T OCCURRED AGAIN. SINCE THEN, WE HAVE NOTICED MORE AND MORE THAT THE TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN SHIFTING VERY HARD MAKING POPPING NOISES AND JERKING. WE FINALLY DECIDED THAT SOMETHING WASNT RIGHT AND TOOK IT TO A DIFFERENT DEALERSHIP WITH A COUPLE OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE GONE WRONG WITH THE CAR. WE HAD TO TAKE IT TWICE FOR THEM TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE TRANSMISSION. IT IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR A TOTAL TRANSMISSION REPLACEMENT MID AUGUST, AND I THINK IT WAS CAUSED BY ECM MODULE ISSUE WE HAD TO DEAL WITH FOR A FEW MONTHS BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF. I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED IN MAKING A NEW CAR PURCHASE BECAUSE OF ALL THE ISSUES WE HAVE HAD WITH IT.

CAR WAS IN MOTION ON A CITY STREET HEADING STRAIGHT WHEN IT CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP. VARIOUS MESSAGES HAVE BEEN DISPLAYED THE MOST PREVIOUS TIMES SAYING "TO SHIFT VEHICLE MUST BE STOPPED" I WASN'T TRYING TO SHIFT? NO CODES EVER BEING SHOWN ARE THE SAME. ALL ISSUES CAUSE THE CAR TO COMPLETELY STOP. THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ON THE ROADS OFCOURSE. IT'S ALREADY HAD AN UPDATE TO THE SYSTEM THE DEALERSHIP SAID WAS NEEDED. NOW BACK TO DOING THE SAME THING SO IT'S CURRENTLY AT THE DEALERSHIP AGAIN. JUST HIT 20K MILES. ALL OIL CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE ON TIME AS THE JEEP HAS ALL WARRANTIES THE CHYSLER DODGE JEEP DEALERSHIP OFFERED. CAN CONTACT DEALERSHIP FOR MORE DETAIL. THIS HAS BEEN ONGOING SINCE JANUARY 2018

MULTIPLE WARNING MESSAGES ILLUMINATE THE DASH, SUCH AS CHECK ENGINE, CHECK BRAKE, AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. ALSO THE CAR LOCKS UP AND WILL NOT START OR WILL ONLY GO IN REVERSE. THIS HAPPENS UPON ATTEMPTING TO START THE VEHICLE AND ALSO WHILE ACTIVELY DRIVING IT. THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE DEALERSHIP OVER 6 TIMES FOR THE SAME ISSUE AND MULTIPLE SOFTWARE UPDATES HAVE BEEN PERFORMED AND THE TCM HAS BEEN REPLACED BUT THE ISSUE KEEPS OCCURRING. CUSTOMER SERVICE FOR THE MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN CONTACTED AND A CORPORATE TECHNICIAN HAS BEEN INVOLVED AND ALSO AN IN FLIGHT RECORDER WAS TEMPORARILY INSTALLED AND IT PROVIDED NUMEROUS ERROR CODES BUT NO ONE IS SEEMS TO BE CAPABLE OF DETERMINING HOW TO FIX THE ISSUE OR WHAT EXACTLY IS CAUSING IT

CAR WILL NOT START. PUSH BUTTON KEY START. LIGHTS ON STEERING COLUMN LIGHT UP, RADIO GOES ON CAR DOESN'T START. AFTER MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS OF SHUTTING CAR OFF AND ON THE CAR DELAYS AND THEN KICKS OVER. NOTHING WE'D UP WHEN IT HAPPENED WHEN ON THE E AT DEALER.DEALER REPLACE A COMPONENT IN THE PUSH BUTTON KEY START. HAD CAR BACK FOR 5 DAYS. HAPPENED AGAIN X 2. DEALER TOOK CAR AND AGAIN COULD NOT GET TO SIMULATE.

ON AT LEAST SIX DIFFERENT OCCASIONS WHILE MAKING A SLOW SPEED LEFT TURN (UNDER 15 MPH) AND ONCE WHILE MAKING A LEFT U-TURN (AT APPROX. 5 MPH), MY 2017 JEEP RENEGADE EXPERIENCES A LOSS OF POWER AND THE ABS WARNING LIGHT FLASHES. THERE IS NO ACCELERATION WHILE STEPPING ON THE GAS PEDAL. THIS CONDITION LASTS APPROXIMATELY 3 - 5 SECONDS. ON ONE OCCASION, THE VEHICLE BEHIND ME NEARLY REAR-ENDED ME AS MY VEHICLE SLOWED. THE DEALER HAS EXPLAINED THAT THE VEHICLE IS EXPERIENCING A CONDITION THAT EXCEEDS A PARAMETER SET BY THE SOFTWARE. THERE HAVE BEEN NO CODES "SET" BY THESE OCCURRENCES. THEY ARE A BIT UNNERVING AND A SAFETY CONCERN. THIS CONCERN BEGAN WHEN THE JEEP HAD APPROXIMATELY 1000 MILES ON THE ODOMETER. I NOW HAVE 6700 AND THE LAST OCCURRENCE WAS AUGUST 4, 2017.