general problems of the 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Sudden unintended acceleration while braking. Engine revved against brake input. Has happened multiple times. Need to step on the brake hard and wait for it to pass.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee limited. The contact stated that while in a parking space and reversing, the vehicle was then shifted into drive and the high gear message was displayed. The vehicle accelerated unintendedly and the brake pedal failed to bring the vehicle to a stop. As a result, the vehicle crashed into a 2015 Chrysler town and country where it came to a stop. No warning lights illuminated. There were no reported injuries, fire or air bag deployment. A police report was filed. The contact was able to drive the vehicle to her residence. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer where they were unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 71,535.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact stated that while in a drive-thru, the vehicle was shifted into drive from park and drove at 10 mph attempting to park ahead into a parking space when the vehicle accelerated inadvertently. The contact also stated that the brake pedal was depressed but the vehicle did not stop as intended. The vehicle crashed into a cement pole head-on 2 feet off the roadway and another vehicle in the parking lot where it came to a stop. A police report was filed. There were no injuries. The vehicle was towed to a lot. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 147,000.

Have noticed upon driving brakes on left front side would catch and grab sone shaking as well.

My Jeep has started experiencing rough driving and the gears slipping. I took it for service and they told me all the issues wrong were under a recall. (NHTSA 23-e-019) equipment safety recall 21a. He indicated: uplift timing, torque converter engagement, shift points, calibration issues, downshifts and other things. I called my local dealer and gave them my VIN but they stated my vehicle has not been recalled and they won't fix it. The big concern is the slipping gears. It lungs forward at times and I am scared it is going to cause an accident. It is very rough to drive. The service 4 wheel drive system light came on. It started 4/27/23. It is very bad when turning the vehicle and driving slow.

While in motion, vehicle lost all power; the engine stalled, brakes failed and lost power steering. The vehicle shifted into neutral. I put the vehicle back in drive and it went back to neutral. I turned the ignition off and restarted. My husband was driving and I was in the passenger seat, with my 5 year old daughter in the backseat. If there had been oncoming traffic, we’d have hit them head on.

At a speed of 30mph, was slowing down coming up to a red light, as the brakes were being pressed the motor began to rev up and try to accelerate despite me fully pressing the brakes. I had to put the vehicle in neutral and shut it down. I merely missed hitting another vehicle. I called the dealer who had no information for me. No warning lights were on or prior to the reving and acceleration of the vehicle as I was trying to come to a stop at a red light. I am reading numerous forums of Jeep owners reporting the same issue. This really should be investigated before someone is seriously injured or killed, which maybe there have been reports of such already. In my case, there was no injury or damage because I was lucky enough to have no vehicle beside me and had a place to vere off to to pull over quickly. If that hadn’t been the case, an accident would have occurred. I can’t say if this vehicle has malfunctioned like this previously because I purchased 2 days ago.

When setting cruise control to speed limit then pressing brake and then resume the Jeep sone times accelerates to a higher speed the. Having to break again. Has been reoccurring nervous when driving and setting cruise or resuming. Have not taken it in as of yet.

Was driving down the road it was raining no other vehicles around braking! came on the screen and the brakes were applied without me doing it. The second time it happened brakes locked up on interstate for a couple seconds then back to normal. If anyone would have been behind us we would have been rear ended. It happened 2 times within an hour. I will be getting it looked at by the dealership as soon as I can.

My car has been having symptoms of a recall associated with other 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee - around electronic braking system , something with the brake booster. The brake light comes on. It has been for years. Mechanic couldn’t figure it out and finally mentioned it is likely from a recall. But the recall is not VIN specific so I can’t get it fixed fully covered by my dealer. Can you please review and assign the recall to my VIN? thank you.

The part that failed is identified as the oil cooler, I will request the dealer provide the defective unit. The part number for the oil cooler 68211323ab. There are two areas that would pose a safety concern when the oil cooler fails. When the oil cooler fails, oil is let into the cooling system. The oil level continues to fall to a point where it is very likely the engine will seize. There is no check engine indicator, the oil temperature indicator shows no rise in temperature. You would not know that there is any problem, if that happens while the vehicle is in motion it could prove to put occupants in jeopardy of injury. The second area of concern, as the oil bleeds into the cooling system it is unable to adjust for the additional fluid. The cooling system reservoir fills up and begins to overflow each time the vehicle is started and driven. The reservoir overflow is in the front right side of the engine compartment. When car is parked the oil flows on to everything that is below it. But when the car is in motion the oil covers the right side of the engine compartment. The result of the overflow could lead to a fire in the engine compartment, oil on the rotor and brake could result in the malfunction of the brake mechanism. With oil in the cooling system the smell of diesel is very strong in the passage compartment. This may, lead to headaches, nausea, and eye irritation. The dealer did confirm the problem and provided a quote of $8600 to repair. The car has been inspected by and independent mechanic and the dealer’s mechanic. As noted earlier there was no warning that a problem was occurring. The first sign of a problem was on the 17th of September. A large oil spill in my garage.

Driving, lost all power to steering, brakes and engine. Crossed over double yellow and narrowly escaped a collision with the guardrail. Had any car been in the opposite lane, I would have been severely injured. I am a mother of two. It was sudden as without warning. Additionally I had to call out of work hence loss of income.

It was freezing outside, but not icy on the road. Well lit. I was not in a rush. Car was in excellent shape up until then. I was going ~10 pmh down the inside parking garage driveway. Had to pull to the right due to car coming up partially on my side. Scratched the side wall. Once that happened, the car accelerated out of control. Brakes didn't react. Only way to stop the car before running into other cars or even people was steering the car into the wall front on. The car finally stopped, the wall broke down. The airbags didn't go off, the brake assistance system didn't kick in. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but could have easily happened. The car is a total loss. I was not under the influence of drugs and don't have a seizure disorder. Witnessed every single second fully awake and aware.

A big warning comes on my dash board saying brakes and automatically stops while driving on the highway. This happened twice. It is scarey because there is no reason I need to brake nor can I control that the car is force braking it self. I have read 2 other complaints about this issue and both have ended in crashing the vehicle due to the computer force braking itself in the SUV.

Coming out of a tunnel, wet surface, slight turn, and the automatic braking system known as traction control locked brakes and steering up on it's own causing car to hydro plane into a curb and a wall. I had no control but if I did I could have controlled the car and prevent the crash.

The incident occurred on or about Thursday, April 10th 2019 at 12:10am. It involves the brakes of the vehicle not being able to stop the vehicle at low speeds. The entire incident was captured on a high-quality front-facing dashboard camera with audio, video, and gps. There were no injuries. Description of the incident is as follows: while I was on the interstate 10 west freeway in redlands, CA, I maneuvered to the most right lane on the highway in preparation to approach an exit less than 1 mile away (university Ave. ) due to lane closures (left lanes) at the time I was on the freeway, traffic was bumper-to-bumper and very low speed. While in the most right lane and still at very low speed, I engaged the adaptive cruise control feature on the vehicle. Within around 5 seconds of engaging the adaptive cruise control, the vehicle slowed down to a stop because of the vehicle in front of mine had stopped. At that point, the cruise control feature self-disengaged as normal. Only a few seconds later, the vehicle possibly abnormally vibrated. As the vehicle continued to creep forward in traffic as normal, I applied the brakes to stop, but the vehicle would not stop or slow down. As I nearly approached colliding with the vehicle ahead of me, I engaged the parking/emergency brake with my foot, and that did not seem to slow or stop the vehicle either. A second attempt to engage the parking brake did nothing as well. Within a few seconds, the car almost slowed to a stop due to rolling friction and a slight uphill grade in that portion of the freeway. I placed the vehicle in park at this time and restarted the car. After restarting, I was able to drive and brake properly the rest of my short journey home. This entire episode is captured on my dashboard camera, and it seems others on the internet have complained about this issue as well.

Tl- the contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact stated that while driving 45 mph, when pressing the break pedal the vehicle started slowing down. The contact stated the breaks failed to respond when intending to stop vehicle. As a result the contact crashed into another vehicle in front. The air bags failed to deploy. The contact did not sustained any injuries. The person on other vehicle sustained unknown injuries that required medical attention. A police report was not filed. The vehicle was not towed. The contact called a unknown dealer. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 37,000. As.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. While stationary, the vehicle independently rolled away and crashed into a parking sign and a building. The air bags did not deploy. A police report was not filed. There were no injuries sustained. A dealer was not made aware of the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and provided the contact with case number: 337-98083. The failure mileage was 20,000.

Once I had completed parking the vehicle in a parking lot in front of a shopping center properly shifting the gear into the park position. My boyfriend began to exit the passenger side to help our two year old son from his car seat as I had began to release my foot from the break pedal. It was at that moment that the vehicle began to roll forward I quickly placed my foot back onto the break pedal stopping the vehicle which still indicated it was in park. With my foot remaining on the break pedal I shifted the gear into drive and into park, again. To ensure the vehicle was now parked. The vehicle did not move and I placed the emergency parking break on and have continued to do so since the incident. At no point in time during the incident did the vehicle alert me in any way that the vehicle was not in the proper gear position. It in fact read that it was in the correct gear position of park.

I had been driving this vehicle for several days , I notice when I brake . It would not stop . I notice this 6 different times . My daughter came hone one morning and said to me . Be careful driving today , it is light rain and you know those brakes don't always work . Be careful , well I had a accident . The car in front of me stopped and I was far enough to stop but the car would not stop when I hit the brakes . I ran into the car I front of me . There was no damage to her car , just a little hot . My car looked like I slammed into a brick wall . I was on the highway , going 30 miles a hour.

Vehicle was being parked in my garage moving slowly forward with no application of throttle and began to suddenly accelerate. Standing on the brake would not fully hold it and it went into rear wall .

The autonomous braking system on my Jeep Grand Cherokees came on for no reason at 70 miles per hour with an empty road ahead of me. I was nearly hit from the rear, very scary.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign numbers: 16v168000 (service brakes, hydraulic) and 16v240000 (power train); however, the parts needed to repair the vehicle were unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not notified of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure. Parts distribution disconnect.

Forward collision warning system with brake mitigation continues to engage intermittently on its own. This is not to be taken lightly. The forward collision warning with brake mitigation engages intermittently, out of the blue, when there is no need. Meaning; I'll be driving along . . . No cars or objects in front of me, and all of a sudden the system slams on the brakes, jerks very abruptly, audible bells go off and the screen illuminates brake brake brake! there have been 3 instances in which my family and I have nearly been rear-ended due to this erratic behavior that the vehicle is demonstrating. I¿ve been in a comparably equipped loaner car for the past five weeks and it has not demonstrated this type of inconsistent, erratic behavior. This vehicle is unsafe to drive, be in or around. The Jeep was purchased on July 9, 2016. I have taken the vehicle into the service department 4 times since July 21, 2016. After examination of damage, electric tech review and 2 test drives (32 miles and 100 miles) the response I get is, "the system is working as designed. " the vehicle has been in service 51 of the 103 days of ownership, 49. 5%. The selling/servicing dealer and manufacturer has been extremely negligent in providing transparency to any similar issues to mine. Quite frankly, they haven't communicated much of anything to me. The last time the service advisor reached out to me, via text, was on September 23, 2016. My customer experience has been awful. I do not feel safe in an fca vehicle, nor do I respect any of their corporate or dealer network associates. This is the worst consumer experience of my life. Unbelievable that my safety is not a concern to fca or the selling/servicing dealer. If it were, I would have been provided a full refunded and free to go elsewhere make a purchase with a manufacturer that I trust and appreciates me, the customer.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 16v240000 (service brakes, electrical system). The part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure.

Vehicle randomly brakes unintentionally for 5 to 10 seconds - engine and steering fail all at the same time. A loud collision warning along with red alert braking indicators. I informed a local dealership several months after purchase (summer 2015). They reported no specific codes or recalls. The issue has occurred multiple times. In all occurrences the vehicle was in motion including highway and city streets. For incidents I directly recall they occurred while driving in a straight line (mostly).

Jeep was parked in our driveway which has a slight incline. Looked out of the window a few minutes after it was parked and it was out in the street. Drove it back up the driveway 6 or 7 times and put it in park. Each time the wheels rolled and it rolled down the driveway into the street. Just before this happened, I had removed a wheelchair from the back. If this had occurred sooner, I would have been run over by the car. If this had happened when transferring from the car to the wheelchair, both of us would have been hit by the door, knocked over and then run over.

The contact owns a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. After switching to the park position and exiting with the engine running, the vehicle suddenly drove forward and struck a second vehicle. The contact sustained an injured right arm. Medical attention was not required. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to duplicate the failure. Also, while driving at various speeds, the collision avoidance system randomly activated and caused the braking system to abruptly stop the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the failures. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 1,000.

My Jeep is rolling backwards when in park, wheels turned all the way to the right and emergency brake engaged. This has happened about 10 times since I purchased my Jeep in July 2015. On Jan 4th 2016 it rolled about 10 - 15 feet down a driveway and came to a rest in the gutter. It happened again on Jan 7, 2015. The Jeep was parked on a slight incline in driveways with about 1/4 inch on snow/slush. The tires are still locked in the right position both times when it came to a stop in the gutters. After the last incident I found a little driveway and parked on it. I again turned the tires all the way to the right and engaged the emergency brake and I sat and waited. 7 minutes later it started to slide down the driveway it sled about for about 5 - 8 feet before I applied the brake. This inclined driveways have been about 05 -10 feet inclines. I have had a 1996 and 2006 Jeep over the past 25 years and have never had a vehicle slide from a parked position or down a snow packed hill. I took it to the dealer and they told me to get new snow tires. This is very scary to me. If children are walking to school or joggers or a passing car someone could be seriously hurt or worse. This serious matter needs to be handled promptly.

The automatic emergency braking system activates on the highway for reason. I have been to the dealer repeatedly during the warranty period and they can't fix the problem. It activates at times with nobody in front of me and sometimes with a clear lane ahead of me and a truck next to me. This has happened numerous times since I bought the vehicle three years ago.

I own a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee overland. I was informed of the NHTSA research into the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the problems individuals were having with the collision warning system and the automatic breaking. I have experienced the same problem two times. There was no vehicle or obstacle close to me and the collision avoidance system initiated the autmoatic breaking system while driving down an interstate highway. It did not cause an accident, thankfully. After the second incident, I disabled the forward collision warning system due to my fear that it would happen again and cause an accident. I was alerted to your investigation into the 2014 model but wanted to bring it to your attention regarding my 2015 model. Reference: the office of defects investigation (odi) has received nine complaints alleging inappropriate activations of the autonomous braking system in model year (my) 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles. All nine reports alleged unexpected braking incidents preceded by collision imminent brake warnings and resulting in sudden reduction in vehicle speed in traffic. Two complaints reported autonomous braking incidents with no objects on the road resulting in rapid increase in brake force and anti-lock braking system (abs) activations. The complaints alleged experiencing multiple events at different locations and road conditions. A preliminary evaluation has been opened to assess the frequency, scope and consequences of the alleged defect. The following voq numbers are associated with the issues discussed in this resume: 10543837, 10713629, 10690650, 10663320, 10630362, 10596913, 10533622, 10533524, 10651269.

Third time of incident. While parallel parking, and shifting from reverse into drive, while foot is still on the brake the vehicle revs and lurches forward. 1st 2 times involved parking on snow/ice. Today, with a dry street and sneakers, vehicle began to rev. I attempted to shift into park to avoid lurching forward but failed to do so in time. When vehicle revs, I hold onto steering wheel and press brake with all my strength but unable to prevent the forward movement.

On multiple occasions while using the adaptive cruise control the vehicle will suddenly and unexpectedly apply the brakes when the path is clear in front of the vehicle. It would appear large objects such as a jersey barrier (common in wa) the left and large slowing traffic (a potential danger) to the right will trigger the inappropriate action and results in a dangerous situation to vehicles behind! the situation that causes the problem is not easy to reproduce, hence its surprise!.