Transmission Slip Out Of Gear Problems of Jeep Cherokee

While driving and turning right the vehicle shifted out of gear to neutral and the emergency brake light activated. Also, the service air bag, service shifter and the engine light came on. Furthermore, all the shifter lights came on. While sitting in the middle of traffic I turned the car off and on to reset it, then I was able to move the vehicle and the service shifter light came on again. I was able to drive the car back to my house 5 miles away. This is not the first time the service shifter light came on. I have a scheduled diagnosis with my dealership's service center in seven days. I made the appointment when the first time the service shifter light came on. They did not advise me not to drive the vehicle. But, after the last incident the vehicle is not safe to drive.

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Transmission jump out of drive while driving on the highway to work.

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The transmission light has been on pretty much since I got the vehicle. Have taken it in to orileys and was told codes were either transmission or firing. I was told to change the coil packs. This seemed to fix the issue of it bogging down while driving. Like it wouldn't shift. If u put it in manual it would work. Coil packs fixed all that. Now my wife drives vehicle in detroit traffic and the vehicle just slips out of gear while driving. Has been very dangerous while in flow of high speed traffic. Vehicle like wanting to stop immediately and almost get rear ended.

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My 2016 Jeep Cherokee all red lights next to the shifter come on and a message appears on the dash says service shifter, the car drops out of drive gear into neutral. I sometimes can reset it by shutting the car off and restarting but that does not always work and the car then has to be removed from the road. This has caused me to be put in some very dangerous situations as you can imagine. What is more dangerous than being on the highway and losing all forward motion.

I have owned this vehicle since April 6, 2019. It repeatedly and without warning shifts out of gear and comes to a stop. The srvice shifter warning light comes on. I have brought the car to herb chambers Jeep in millbury MA. 4 times and they are unable to fix it. The last time this happened on April 22,2020 the charlton MA. Police responded and had to direct traffic around my car till it was towed. I do have a police report with 3 pictures if needed. This was on rte 20 in charlton while moving.

Similar to other Jeep Cherokee year models, my 2016 Jeep Cherokee slips out of gear into neutral while driving, either between 1st to 2nd gear or 2nd to 3rd gear. Makes for a dangerous ride with my 2 children in back and the car basically stops working and cars in back of me have to slam their brakes so to not run into me. This happens randomly, whether car has been driven for 10 minutes or just started.

While driving on a highway with a speed limit of 65 mph and heavy traffic, all of the sudden my vehicle would not shift out of 3rd gear. Once I reached around 40mph and tried to accelerate I felt knock and shaking. The engine would continue to rev, however no acceleration or shifting would happen. It begins to sputter and feels as thought the vehicle is going to shut off. ## #vpic# 1 - check digit (9th position) does not calculate properly #vpic#.

I purchased this vehicle used in the summer of 2018. At the time I noticed that it seemed to shift rather hard but didn't think much of it. Over the last year the shifting has gotten worse. It either shifts late while the engine is winding up causing a rather large jump depending on the speed. Or it doesn't shift out of gear at all causing me to slow down on highways and then accelerate again. In the last few weeks it has also started stalling at random times. Sometimes it will stall when shifting from reverse to drive. This morning it stalled while I was maintaining a speed around 30mph on a side street. I was stuck in the middle of the road until I was able to start the engine again. Even though the car was in park it wouldn't start because the computer still thought it was in drive. Issues are becoming more frequent in less than safe situations. These all seem to date back to the release of the vehicle. Either the software wasn't updated before I purchased the vehicle or the software update isn't a permanent fix. Either way it's just a matter of time before this causes an accident.

While driving, the vehicle would jump out of gear and rpm's would go up. Had to tap on brake to go back into gear. Had the transmission flashed per recent recall and still does it. 08/21/19 while driving the vehicle 50mph, the engine shut off, causing loss of steering and no brakes. Vehicle ran off the road and into some trees (crash). The dealership said if it didn't show a code that I had to call Jeep and file a complaint. I have done so and Chrysler hired bosch to download the vehicle crash data to see what happened. Still waiting to hear back from the dealership.

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Car seems to down shift, shift into nuetral, shift or jump out of gear. Service shifter light keeps coming on. Has happened while vehicle was in motion on a city street.

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While driving at interstate speeds of 70-75 mph, the motor revved up to 3500 rpm's and I discovered that the car had lost propulsion and would not pull. I was able to coast onto the shoulder and stopped. I took the gearshift out of drive and placed it into park. I put it back into drive, and it began to work again. This first occurred in July of 2018. It happened several more times where-in the car appeared to shift out of gear even though the shifter was in the d position. I took it to the dealer and was told that there was a recall and the computer needed updating. This service was performed on that day. Since then, the vehicle has continued to appear to jump into neutral while I am driving at highway speeds. The motor will revv, and the vehicle stops pulling. I took it back to the dealer today and was told that there was nothing wrong with it.

Multiple sporadic flashing loss of traction light on dry roads and rolling starts. 5/10/18 4872m vehicle in motion on city street 35mph "service parking brake" flashed on display 5/12/18 5004m making left turn from stop on yield green very slight decline, city street, depressed gas pedal to make turn, car slipped out of gear flashing to put car in neutral or park and then back in drive. Car rolled into intersection. I flipped over to tiptronic w/o response, shifted to neutral and back w/o response, kids in backseat while car is stalled perpendicular to oncoming traffic. Turned hazards on, shifted to park and back, no response, rolled to side of road at this point. Put car back in park, counted to five, shifted back to drive, and car responded. 5/12/18 5084m fianc� driving, city street 45mph. Making left turn across 3 oncoming lanes from stop, car again slipped from gear and flashed message to shift into neutral or park and then back to drive. Fianc� shifted to neutral and back into drive w/o response. I turned on hazards, he shifts car into park and counted a few seconds before putting it park in drive and pulling off the road. Dealership closed. 5/14/18 dropped car off at Jeep 5/22/18 vm from Jeep, they didn't know what the issue was 5/23/18 Jeep called, couldn't duplicate the issue, filed a report w/Chrysler, tested grounding, and concluded it was a "fluke in the system". Asked me to pick up the car despite not making repair. "if you have issues bring it back".

Wife was driving vehicle on highway at night, "service transmission" light went on asking her to "put car in park". . . She pulled off road and car slipped out of gear at stop sign, where she had to turn engine off and restart. She was able to drive car home with check engine light on. Car is currently with johnson Jeep in washington, NJ. No contact from them as of yet to issue/repair. I was unaware of recall at time of purchase. I have concerns about safety of vehicle.

While driving on a city street at approximately 45 mph. The vehicle shifted out of gear, lunges and goes again in a jerking/ hesitating manner. Check engine light came on and service transmission light came on. Pulled over put in park and re selected a gear. When doing so it makes a horrific grinding noise and has no power. The battery has been replaced twice since 2014 for a "bad battery" after both of these replacements within 4 months we have now experienced these transmission problems. I stress this is the second time with the transmission issue and also the second time for the battery replacement.

I parked the Jeep and turned it off and when inside for 10 minutes and started the car to leave and a bunch of lights came on like service engine and drive train. I put it in reverse and a huge clunk from the transmission happened I backed up and put it in forward and a huge clunk happened again. It shocked the whole car. I went forward and it barley would go. It took along time to get up to speed. It kind of shook and was really scarey. I brought it to the Jeep dealer and barely made it. The guy said the techs where all gone for the day. I couldn't leave it there so I started it back up and it worked fine. The check engine light was still on though. The next day I started it up and the light was off. It worked fine for 3 days until it all happened again the same stuff. So I turned it off and started it 10 minutes later and it was fine. It is a leased Jeep and I am going to bring it in this Friday. I want this fixed. I have read lots of the same problems with 100s of other people and it sounds like they are just giving people the run around. This is very unsafe and I want a new Jeep or a new transmission. I do not have any time to be going back to the dealership all the time or do I want to die in a car accident. The next thing that happens a that people are saying is that it will shift out of gear on the freeway and lots of people have almost crashed because of this. Thank you please let me know what you will do about this.

My Jeep does not shift out of first gear and sometimes second until the engine reves up high and then shifts suddenly with a forceful jerk. Sometimes upon acceleration on the highway, the vehicle will down shift as you would expect, and then does the forceful sudden jerk when it goes into a higher gear. It has been forceful enough to feel as though someone has bumped into my vehicle. I have taken it to the dealership and to my independent car repair place and neither can find anything on the computer diagnostics. It happens randomly but has begun to happen more frequently.

The transmission in my 2014 Jeep Cherokee will slip into neutral at slow speeds, will not downshift when passing a vehicle but instead bogs down and loses acceleration, many times it will start in the wrong gear not downshifting all the way to first when slowing to near stop and accelerating up again. Transmission is jerky between shifts on highway as well as accelerating from a stopped position. When shifting gears the automatic transmission just kind of drags from one gear the the next in a long drawn fashion instead of shifting crisply like it should. I have had a couple close calls at intersections with the car slipping out of gear as I am entering traffic. Also had a near miss yesterday changing lanes to pass a semi truck when my Cherokee just bogged down in front of it instead of having a smooth acceleration to pass him. At the last instant the car finally grabbed the gear it was hunting for and I was able to clear the near miss. I have been to Jeep service where they have admitted to knowing of all these issues and are at a loss to find a fix. They have used flash updates three times without success. After my last visit for the latest update which they practically guaranteed would fix my issue. . . I was contacted by service and told my software was not compatible with their update and that they now want to put in a new transmission. I have been involved with Chrysler diamond service for months asking them to replace the car or arrange to give me a fair trade on the car thinking they would take some responsibility and they have denied my request. I actually bought two Cherokees in 2014. . The first one showed these transmission issues, so I traded it for another one absorbing a loss with hopes that a different Cherokee would get me out from under the problems, but sure enough the second one has the same issues so I lost all that trade value for nothing.

Gears are unreasonably difficult to shift when parked on a hill. Transmission slips out of gear. While on the free way at approximately 60 mph the car loses the ability to deliver power.

My Jeeps transmission is shifting out of gear, accelerating and driving up the rpms going downhill while I am trying to brake, jumping out of gear and speeding up, or reving up at random moments. This is causing very dangerous driving conditions as my vehicle takes off when it should be slowing down or speeds up for no reason and I have to slam the brakes to get the transmission to "reset". When its in these conditions it revs up the motor and often shifts very hard into the next gear. I did record this on video as its happening to demonstrate how difficult it is to drive the vehicle this way. Its two weeks before the car dealership can take my car and inspect it, so, I am driving around at risk.

Transmission failure. Vehicle would not shift out of third gear.

2015 Jeep Cherokee latitude. When coming to a stop, at about 25 mph, the tachometer reads 1250 rpm then the transmission drops out of gear which makes the vehicle speed up, making me brake harder, then the transmission downshifts and the engine revs up to 2000 rpm making the car lurch forward. This is dangerous and has made me feel like I may rear end a car on several occasions.

The transmission does not automatically downshift out of 3rd gear when coming to a stop or at a brief stop resulting in loss of power at take off. Trying to accelerate from a stop while in 3rd gear results in significant delay in power. This hesitation is similar to stalling which is very dangerous when pulling into traffic. Jeep has stated that this is normal and that you must always come to a complete extended stop before the transmission will down shift. This is not feasible when a complete stop is not necessary or required like when a light changes to green when you are coming to a stop, or you are merging into traffic with a yield sign. This is an accident waiting to happen, or is already resulting in accidents that are classified as your vehicle didn't yield to right of way, even though this stall like scenario is the primary contributor.

Purchased a 2014 Cherokee trailhawk with 0 miles on oct 25. At 200 miles, and 48 hours later I took it onto the beach. As soon as it got into the sand, it dropped to 2nd gear and rpms shot up to just over 3000. Car would not shift out of second. Temp went up to 230. Later on all computers in car started to flash like white noise. Brought it back to the dealer and was given a variety of excuses. Bad abs sensor, loose fuse etc. Went to pick the car up from the dealer after hours when they were closed. As soon as I turned it on, flashing white noise on all the screens. I also took it on the beach a day or two later, and again car wouldnt shift out of second gear on the beach. The car now began to shift very irraticaly. It would up shift very fast accelerate when my foot was not on the gas. When coming to a stop it would down shift so hard. When I brought the car back to the dealer, (now with 700 miles on it) they told me they were replacing the entire transmission. They have had the car for 3 weeks total. Finally picked up the car last week. When I got into the car the odometer ready 6000 miles! I dropped it off with 700. I told him for the 3rd time that I did not want it. I have also been dealing with a Jeep resolution team from Chrysler. Its been a week, the car is shifting more erratic than it has since the new transmission. The sunroof leaks water, the windshield is constantly fogged and looks like there is a clear coat that may have gotten on the car that makes it impossible to see when driving. Also, when I turn the floor heat on, the front defroster comes on. Chrysler contacted me on Friday, and my Jeep has offically been deemed a lemon, and I am entited to a replacement. I dont want a replacement. I want a full refund and to head over to the Toyota dealer.

Tl- the contact owns a 2014 Jeep Cherokee. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle would erroneously shift into neutral or shift out of gear and failed to accelerate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed that the transmission computer chip was faulty. The computer chip was reprogrammed but the vehicle continued to experience the failure. The vehicle was taken to the dealer multiple times due to the failure. Also, the contact indicated that the rear passenger side seat belts would erroneously unlatch while the vehicle was in motion. The cause of the failure was not diagnosed. The manufacturer was not notified of the failures. The failure mileage was 15,000. Pam.

Vehicle surges ahead when stopped, or hesitates on acceloration and sometimes slips out of gear when accelorating. These problems have happened since I purchased the car and so far there have been 3 software upgrades that aren't helping.

Two problems came up at around the same time. The car was delivered with the transmission 4 quarts low on fluid. The car was slipping out of gear, lurching and shuddering. The transmission is a sealed unit so there was no way for me to know that. Then the dash display went completely dark. No feedback was given, its a digital display. So I had no speedometer, tachometer etc and the warning lights were out. I feel like a vehicle with no dash display that slips out of gear when passing or lurches forward when stopping could be dangerous to other drivers and pedestrians.

Vehicle shifts from park into reverse without anyone touching the shift lever. Vehicle also changes gears occasionally when driving, e. G. , shifts from reverse to drive when backing up, or reverse to neutral. Reported to dealer immediately in July 2014 (not aware of problem) and Chrysler on 9/29/14 and again 9/9/15. We are now vigilant when shifting gears and before initial acceleration. Once moving, the Jeep stays in the gear selected, e. G. , hasn't shifted out of drive while driving down the road. The shift problem is a progression downward, I. E. , park to reverse, reverse to neutral, reverse to drive. Unfortunately my wife had another and potentially serious incident this weekend when she parked on level ground, placed the Jeep in park, left the engine running, got out of the Jeep (briefly to check on something), then the vehicle shifted into reverse and started backwards. My wife had to run and jump into the moving Jeep to stop it. On this occasion, she wasn't even in the Jeep and there were no passengers, so no one touched the shift lever. There was a significant pause (I. E. , time to get out of the Jeep and start to walk away) before the Jeep changed gears. On the occasions when the Jeep shifts from reverse to drive, we have been fortunate that no person or object was close to the front of the Jeep and the driver was alert and able to stop within the first few feet; we will not always be so lucky. Other manifestation of this shifting problem is when shifted to reverse, we watch the indicator say reverse then, after a noticeable pause with no one touching the gear lever, the Jeep will shift into neutral or continue into drive. Knowing that this is a problem, we watch the shift sequence closely and catch this "slipping out of gear selected" problem to avoid an accident. Is this a drive by wire electrical problem?.

While turning at a stop light the car slipped into neutral. Check engine light came on, service transmission message on dash, parking brake light came on and also traction control light. Pulled over and restarted car still would not engage into to drive. Had to let car sit for 30 minutes then restarted and went back in to drive. Made it to dealership but slipped out of gear one more time on the 20 minute drive. The exact thing has happened 2 more times and has now been at the dealership 3 times in 2 weeks. Afraid for my safety at this point!.

The contact owns a 2007 Jeep Cherokee. The contact stated that while driving approximately 50 mph, the shift module suddenly failed by shifting out of gear and the vehicle stalled. The contact was able to restart the vehicle and then drove to the nearest dealer. The dealer inspected the vehicle and informed the contact that he would need to replace the gear shift module. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 48,000. The VIN was unavailable.

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Vehicle was parked inside of the garage. The driver went out of vehicle while it was running and vehicle jumped out of gear, causing consumer's vehicle to hit another vehicle inside of the garage. The dealer was aware of the problem.

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The vehicle jumped out of gear while driving. The dealer was notified.

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The vehicle was parked with the engine running, when all of a sudden the vehicle jumped out of out gear. The vehicle was parked with the engine running, when all of a sudden the vehicle jumped out of out gear.

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Vehicle was placed in park position and jumped out of gear into reverse, rolling backwards, and crashing into another vehicle. Consumer has contacted dealer. Please provide any further details.

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