Table 1 shows one common electronic stability control related problems of the 2007 Jeep Patriot.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Electronic Stability Control problems |
Vehicle stalls and steering locks up. This happened twice when I was turning and almost got in an accident both times somebody is going to get killed! serious safety issue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
My children and I were driving 75 mph on the freeway when my Jeep Patriot randomly shut off without warning, the the vehicle gave no indication whatsoever that there was an issue it just stop, the cars behind us started to steam on their brakes running off the road, we had to drive off the side off the road to prevent getting hit. It's was so terrifying . The police came and wanted to give us a ticket for wreck less operperation of a vehicle and though I was under the influence of something. I began to cry. It took 10 minutes to restart car. This happened again a couple hours later with no warning. When we got back from our trip we took it to Ford marshall, nick mayer in mayfield ohio . It is documented there numerous times that this vehicle stalls randomly at high speeds but they cannot diagnosis the problem because the check engine light never comes on when this occurred and it is not sending a code to give them a diagnosis , so if they don't have a code , they can't warranty out the part to fix it for me to fix the issue. So then they send me home everythime and put me and my family in danger again. Today my car stalled again right in front of a police car. I just sat there and cried.
D/s headlight keeps going out, starter makes weird spinning noise, windows will stop working randoming and will work after car is turned off then back on, car will chug at take off from lights.
My vehicle started stalling when I was merging onto a busy highway. The electronic throttle sensor and stability sensor came on and I had to pull off on the shoulder of the road. The car was very hard to get to a stop. The breaks did not work very well and the car was jerking horribly. The car kept trying to die and would rev up and down by itself. It turned the car off and back on and it reset itself but it happened again.
July 2011: submitted my vehicle to my local mechanic for a scheduled oil change and was advised that the ball bearing assembly was so structurally inept that the front wheels could be detached from the vehicle. Repairs were made as was a major safety issue. Nov 2011: about 4,000 miles later our Jeep was scheduled another oil change, and the same mechanic noticed that since our last service the tie rods were in need of replacement. My mechanic advised that this is not typical of a vehicle that has total 49,000 miles and could not have predicted such issues between routine service appointments.
It began to rain so we turned on our wipers only to find that we had no wipers. They will turn on sometimes, but only on the highest setting, yet at a less than minimal speed. We thought it could be a loose connection or something seeing as our vehicle is only 3 years old, but when we went to the Jeep dealership to fix it theft said it was the wiper computer module and would cost nearly 1000 dollars to fix. Unfortunately we did not have the money at the time to replace it.