Engine Shut Off Without Warning problems of the 2018 Jeep Cherokee

The car will just shut off in idle , sometimes it will start right back up, others you have to wait a few minutes. Took it to dealer a few times and they keep saying that it is because when the oil gets low it this model that happens so I have to get the oil changed once a month.

While driving, the vehicle shuts down, I lost all control. A message popped up that said �apply brake and put in park or neutral� the engine slowly lost all acceleration and came to a complete stop. The car beeps and said �low battery� but all lights and voltage reading was completely normal. I turned car off, restarted car, and it was fine, I drive it another 100 meters and it repeats this exact cycle all the way home.

As driving vehicle shuts down loose all control. Message pops up that says. Apply brake and put in park or neutral. Engine shuts down. In motion on highway. Very dangerous.

Bought my vehicle 12/21/2017. Have had nothing but problems ever since. Took my car to nyle maxwell in austin where it was purchased several different times. I was always told there was nothing wrong with it. In November 2019 my car broke down and I paid to have it towed to the dealership in sa since that is where I was relocated to for work. Blamed it on my oil which I was never notified by my vehicle it was even low. Engine has not been acting right since. 5/21/2020 I went on a trip but only made it to waco. Vehicle shut off going 70 mph on the freeway and I almost got hit by several different vehicles because of it. 5/26/2020 dealership called me to let me know I was getting a new engine since mine was compromised by the oil it was consuming. Now I am being told that I have to drive it and test it before they will replace it. Have done an intensive amount of research and this is a huge liability to put my life in danger for a test they need for the company. Called the location I purchased it at and surprise they will not take care of it. Nothing but problems with this vehicle since I purchased it and they have never done anything to make it right.

The 2018 Jeep Cherokee latitude consumes oil and has a mechanism where if the car is low on oil it will just shut off when driving. This is a serious safety hazard as the car gives no warning it is low on oil. Someone is going to get killed one day when these cars just shut off in the middle of driving.

Making a right turn, engine shut off no power, lights stated I must be in park to shift warning lights. The Jeep would not start. I had experienced no prior issues before this happened. I called my husband who arrived and drove it home. I called the dealership and they basically told me this was a known issue with this motor and to check the oil. Upon checking the oil there was very little on the dipstick. Once again I contacted the dealership and was told I basically need to keep a check on the oil. This is a safety hazard!.

In November car completely shut off, having no steering and hard breaking. Took car in for this along with an oil change dealership stated this was a software update. They performed the update but failed to tell me anything else. Last week car did the same exact thing, called dealership spoke with the service manager and he informed me that Chrysler had designed the car to shut off with no warning lights at all. The issue he said was the motor using oil at approximately 21,589 miles. I expressed my concerns with him and also called Chrysler and they again told me the exact thing that it is not suppose to give you a warning it was made when the oil gets low the car will shut off. My concerns is me or someone else is going to be severely hurt or even killed. When I checked the oil level in my car it barely reached the end of the dip stick. Luckily I was on the street I lived on when this took place. I researched the complaint on line and this has been a problem since 2017.

While company employee was driving the vehicle, without warning, the engine shuts down. It has happened numerous times, at highway speeds, and also in town in traffic without warning. The Jeep dealer said it needed an oil change, but the oil life monitor says there is still 56% oil life remaining. After the oil change, the problem seems to go away for a while. After researching, it appears to be related to the vehicles hydraulically driven variable valve timing. Jeep says the vehicle is low on oil, that's why the oil change fixes the problem, but no oil light or any other warning ever comes on. The vehicle just dies and then restarts after coasting off the road or stopping in the middle of traffic.

While driving my car, the engine shut off in mid drive, in motion, in a parking structure getting ready to get on the freeway. I complained to the dealer and they said it was because I needed an oil change and I wasn't over mileage by that much, he said he has heard this happen before to a customer. I was so terrified because I could have been on the freeway and could have gotten into an accident and injured and until this day I am very disturbed and worry if it will turn off while driving and even more terrified if I am on the freeway! I just want to report this because the dealership's response didn't sit well with me and I think it is very very dangerous for the car to turn off just because you need an oil change, is there a defect in my car? thank you.

While turning into oncoming traffic in motion , the vehicle stopped on the highway while vehicles where coming at high speeds nearly causing fatal accidents! while stopped at a light as I was proceeding through the light the car shut off again almost causing me to be rear ended.