Car Will Not Start problems of the 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Forward facing camera behind rearview mirror developed an internal fault, which triggered vehicle's communication bus to not function at all. Vehicle would not start and could not be jumpstarted. No interior lights or accessories functioned. Vehicle had to be towed and after diagnoses, the dealer disabled the forward facing camera to make my vehicle operable again, but without functionality of auto high beams and forward collision warning and forward collision active braking features. The forward facing camera impacts auto high beams, forward collision warning, and forward collision active braking functions, at minimum. Have not been able to obtain a replacement part due to either backorder or the dealer not sufficiently searching supply chain despite repeated inquiries.

Parked the car on a rainy night post a 6 hour drive. 2. 5 hours after the car was turned off, the alarm system and other electrical components began to go off intermittently, not in the typical alarm pattern. Key fob and lock would not respond. Car would not start but some electronic components continued to work, including uconnect. Finally stopped after 20 minutes. The car then shut down completely and would not start. Called aaa and they sent out the battery truck. Aaa battery voltmeter check revealed an initial read of 10. 9 volts; then went to 0. 9. Jump start would not take. Car completely dead except for power seats, which continued to work. Had to tow vehicle to dealership who ultimately determined that body control module had malfunctioned. Similar reports and a recall for this body control module same malfunction due to wiper blades on dry glass in 2011-2014 models.

One day when leaving a barbershop my wife tried to start our Jeep and it would not crank. It would turn over, start for a second then turn off. After sitting for a while longer it started up and drove fine. This past Sunday we were leaving a gas station to get on the interstate and in the middle of an intersection it shut off. All acceleration stopped and the Jeep went into park and left us stuck in the middle of the intersection. Once we used the manual park release and got out of the intersection we let it sit for a little bit. My wife got in the driver seat and it started right up. We then drove it to an auto parts store and had the check engine light diagnosed as the neutral safety switch. I spoke with a local dealership and was told that that is �not a part listed� in their parts catalog. This vehicle shut off and my pregnant wife could have been t-boned in the blink of an eye.

The vehicle would not start. It has a push button ignition switch start. It locked up and it could not be towed because the tow truck driver could not get it in natural to move it. I was stranded for 12 hours with nothing to eat or drink before I got help. All electrical systems shut down and I was alone in a very bad area at the time. Unless the vehicle started it would do nothing and could not be towed. Jeep needs a recall on this very unsafe system. They should be made put in an override switch or be able to start the vehicle with a key. I am 76 years old and I was going to start on a 500 mile trip that day. Very good thing it happen when it did. The vehicle would have been dead along the road with no help. All push button starts need a backup to get out of this safety hazard. I unlocked the door get in and pushed the start button and nothing. All kind of lights lit up on the instrument panel and displayed a lot of things that would not work. The transmission would not go in or out of gear.

While driving at highway speed on a 2-lane road, our Jeep Grand Cherokee ecodiesel began to lose power. The lights on the instrument cluster began going off seemingly randomly, and the vehicle had to be quickly pulled over and put in a safe condition on the side of the road as the engine stalled. The engine would not restart. After 2 months of troubleshooting with Chrysler engineering, our shop believes they have found the issue, which is a faulty tone wheel in the drivetrain, at where the engine couples to the transmission. The tone wheel lost about 1/4" of encoded magnetic material, and this made the vehicle inoperable, even while at highway speed. This failure threw no codes to the computer for the technician to interpret, and the only symptom is that the engine would not fire, even though, as a diesel, there is no spark ignition system.

Jeep was purchased end of April 2015, here in the middle of January 2016 attempted to start the vehicle parked in my home garage and the vehicle would not start. After several failed attempts, I exited the vehicle and used the remote start feature, the vehicle finally started. No clear explanation for why the push button start did not work. After my initial stop about 20 minutes later, when I attempted the push button start, it then worked again. 16,000 miles on the vehicle. Serviced the selling dealership.