general problems of the 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee

July 8, 2019 I was driving my 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee laredo on a busy highway in a construction area of the highway when Jeep started losing speed as if it had switched itself into neutral. I was in very heavy traffic when this happened. I managed to get Jeep out of the way of heavy traffic behind me. I waited about five minutes then turned the win key on and Jeep started up and I drove less than a mile Jeep started losing speed again barely moving. Managed to coast off to side of road. Waited again for about five minutes turn key on Jeep started up again. Drove about two miles same thing happened again. Let Jeep sit for a few more minutes at which time I was thinking this Jeep is a death trap waiting to happen. Started Jeep up again and this time I managed to get home without any more loss of speed as if Jeep was in neutral mode. I am now very uneasy each time I drive my Jeep worrying if it will do this again. Very dangerous situation to be in.

On 4/30/19 12. 49 pm I was driving the vehicle on alton parkway going north, suddenly the car accelerated went out of control, hit the curve , crashed against the traffic signal pole, on east yale loop, in the city of irvine. The vehicle was total loss and caught on fire. I was severely injured with broken ribs and sternum. Paramedics took me to the hospital for emergency treatment. I was hospitalized for four days and took six weeks to recover partly with the help of home care services. I was the sole driver of the vehicle, none else was injured. Police impounded the vehicle for investigation, removed black box. I have the police report.

�takata recall� I was going down a ramp onto the freeway and the rpm numbers would go up but once it hit the number 3 the car stopped accelerating.

The contact owns a 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee. While attempting to park the vehicle, there was an abnormal clicking sound coming from the engine compartment. The vehicle accelerated independently and crashed into several outdoor lighting structures at a neighboring residence. A police report was filed. The contact was not injured. The vehicle was towed to the dealer to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the mechanic was unable to duplicate the failure or retrieve a fault code. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 109,000.

See attached letter dated 25 March 2010 ( should read 25 March 2011) briefly summarized: the vehicle engine will speed up to between 4000 and 5000 rpm's for no reason and the only way to get this to stop is to pull over to the side of the road and shut the engine off and restart it. This has happened numerous times and it is only a matter of time before someone is killed.

Shortly after I purchased the vehicle, as I was driving, the car would loose all ability to accelerate. It was like the car would drop into neutral for no apparent reason. The only way to correct this was to pull over and restart the car. I contacted the dealership, but was told they couldn't do anything about it unless the issue was occurring while in the service department. Since this issue could potentially create injury to me and cars behind me, I continued to alert the dealership service department on each event. They asked me to keep a log of when it would happen, but after doing that for several months, there appeared to be no pattern. It could happen any time, under any weather conditions, at any speed, no matter if I was driving 10 minutes or 1 hour. The dealership where I purchased my car closed a couple of months after my purchase, so I brought the car to another Jeep dealer that kept it for over a week, and made some corrections of what they thought might be causing the problem. I was lulled into a false security because after a few thousand miles, it happened again. Now, I can go several thousand miles, then out of the blue, just when I think I'm safe, it happens again. They can't seem to isolate the problem to do a repair that will last. The vehicles behind me don't know my car is coasting. . . This could cause a rear end collision. This is especially dangerous if I'm on a highway. I may have to cross several lanes of speeding traffic to get to the shoulder to restart the car. When I take the car in, they do a diagnostic, but restarting the car resets the defaults to normal. Nothing ever shows up. Very dangerous!!!!.