Gasoline Engine Problems of Jeep Grand Cherokee - part 2

This vehicle is a potential wreck, it doesn't idle and dies, klunks and lurches forward, and roars like its losing its rear axle or transmission. A potential wreck that after repeated attempts will not improve.

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Vehicle has experienced continued engine/electrical/transmission failure on several occasions, repairs on four occasions did not rectified failure. (attorney for consumer) mjs.

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If your using any of the gears to apply engine braking in a downgrade once the tachometer reaches 2500 or more the engine enters a freewheeling state where there is little or no slowing effect. With the use of any gear, after the initial braking caused by the engine revving to match the gear speed (flywheel effect) the engine goes into a "high idle" state and offers no more compression braking. The only way to slow in downgrades is excessive use the brakes. Use of any reasonable gear for the speed does little good. Most states have laws against putting your car into neutral while moving for this reason. No compression braking in mountaineous driving will lead to brake loss due to overheating. Towing a trailer would make things worse. I believe no engine braking is a serious safety defect. This vehicle requires more brake application downhill than any other vehicle I have driven.

The car fails to start at a single turn of the ignition. It takes several attempts. Dealer did not look at this when it was taken into the shop because of rotor mnfr problems.

Noisy engine.

Engine fire.

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Moved around vehicle after being at a complete stop. Then the truck died, had no power, but was still running. Coasted 25 feet and the truck stopped completely. Now the gas guage is not accurate.

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While driving the vehicle died on the driver, and the driver got the vehicle back running by putting gas into the vehicle. Dealer says that once getting to a quarter of gas the vehicle runs out of gas. Dealer says that the parts are on back order. This was no recall, but there are parts available for this problem.

While driving down the highway the vehicle just cuts off without any warning. Thr gas gauge was inoperative.

While driving vehicle on highway about 60 mph the vehicle lost power and the engine was still on. According to the gas gauge the tank had at less than a quarter of a tank of gas, and comsumer thinks the tank was empty. Jeep manufacturer said they were aware of the problem; they had issued a technical bulletin to the dealer and not to the public. According to the comsumer, the dealer said they had heard of this problem only in florida, not in the north. The manufacturer told comsumer they did not issue a recall because they did not know which vehicle has the problem.

Multiple rear axle problems, each diagnosed by owner prior to failure. (the dealer didn't want to admit there was a problem) this vehicle has averaged one new rear axle every year, including this year which I am waiting on parts. The engine's faulty mass airflow sensor quit operation while driving down the rocky mountains on some switchback roads. The engine abrubtly quit running, causing the vehicle to loose steering and braking control. Only quick thinking by using the parking brake saved the four people in the vehicle from eminent death. The engine reluctantly restarted after a few seconds and we continued down the mountains. However, a few minutes later the engine died without warning for a second time and we were forced to hold the Jeep on the mountainside with the parking brake engaged. I can't believe no one has died from this vehicle! this situation has occured on two separate trips, approximately one year apart, after reprogramming the engine management computer, and replacing the mass airflow sensor and remapping the engine management computer for a second time. For the first two years I owned this vehicle, it was in the shop over 36 times for warranty related repairs. What a piece of junk!( dot number: tire size: p225/65r16 ).

When driving the truck anywhere the truck just cuts off without any warning. Sometime the truck would start back up, and sometimes it has to be towed to a mechanic.

After vehicle was driven for 15 minutes and parked the engine caught on fire at 1,500 miles. The reason is unknown as of now.

Engine vibrates.

Purchased truck new, had the truck one month was driving in the rain the engine blew up . Please describe .

Noise in engine.

Engine knocks/fails.

Vehicle continually shuts down, last incident occured while driving on interstate at high speed, unable to determine cause.

Vehicle is having many problems with abs and brakes, on one occasion, front brakes locked up, causing skidding and shaking throughout steering wheel, TSB 879 has been complete, rotors have been found warped several times and have been replaced, brake pads have been replaced, pulsation and vibration are felt due to faulty brakes, however dealer can not remedy problem. Torque converter was replaced, consumer states that a noise is in the transmission after driving a while. Engine surges while driving at 55 mph and above.

I sent a detailed letter to daimler Chrysler after being refused by dealer. They only refunded my money for the cost of the front rotors. They would not reimburse me for the labor charges. I can't understand how they can do that when I had them replaced before the recall. That should show there is a problem. I wrote about all my problems with this "lemon" but I could not claim it was a lemon because I was leasing it at the time and in PA, a vehicle can only be declared a "lemon" when it is purchased, not leased. Very dissatisfied with daimler/Chrysler because they simply washed their hands of the entire problem. I have other problems to report, along with the receipts to prove they were investigated but nothing was ever done to correct the problems. Please contact me to forward all receipts proving complaints before warranty expired. Thank you.

When driving vehicle was stopped at red light, engine completely shutdown.

While driving vehicle stopped at red light and engine completely shutdown. Please provide any further information.

I was driving home from the holidays and the trip was about an hour long on a major hwy. Parked truck outside of garage, took some items in the house and when I came back outside, there was smoke coming out from under the hood. Popped the hood release and tried to open the hood, but burned my hand. I ran inside to call 911 and the minute the door closed, there was an explosion and flames were under the vehicle's engine and under the hood.

Engine difficult to start when hot. When engine is hot and you let sit for a short period of time and trying to restart, it turns over but acts as starved of fuel. Now turn the key off and try to restart, it will start but sometimes chokes down then shutters up to recommended idle speed.

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At various speeds vehicle will completely shutdown, almost causing an accident, vehicle will not restart.

Car would not stay started, mechanic replaced fuel tank and pump, due to admition of Jeep's faulty fuel tanks in '96 Jeeps. This has occurred 2 more times withing 1 month since first occurrance. All three times, tank and pump were replaced with no better outcome. Jeep says this is not a safety hazard!!! I believe it is, I was driving and the car just quit, I had to figure some way to avoid getting hit on the busy 2 lane 55 mile an hour road I was on. If they are going to admit to a problem, then they should fix and pay for the mistake! nlm.

Consumer states when driving 65-70 mph, there is an engine surge which will decrease if the speed is reduced.

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Engine repaired eight times due to fuel pump, spark plug and oxygen sensor failures. Yh.

Vehicle exhibits hard upshift changing from 2nd to 3rd gear when accelerating at 1500rpm @ 20mph.