general problems of the 2007 Jeep Patriot

This has happened twice now in 3 days. After fully filling my fuel tank and then driving away from the pump my Jeep Patriot stalls before I hit 3/10 of a mile from the gas station. Contrary to some other reports of this issue, that I have read, as well as the explanation of the issue posted on the NHTSA website, from fca, this does not happen only at idle. Rather it happens while I am driving. When my Jeep stalls I also lose the ability to fully steer (can only turn the wheel appx 1/4 turn) and braking does not work as well as it normally does. When it happened today I ended up mounting a curb and sidewalk in a residential area. The street I was on was turning but I couldn't turn with it. If I had not engaged the emergency/parking brake I would have driven through a chain link fence and into a home. Once I restarted my Jeep and backed off of the curb the engine stalled again while my Jeep was in motion. Luckily I was barely moving and already had my hand on the emergency/parking brake. When I restarted my Jeep the next time I revved the engine to 3,000rpm for appx 1 minute while my Jeep was in park. My Jeep did not stall after that for the rest of today. Tomorrow may be another story. I see in this form there is the ability to upload photos but I did not know about this being an existing safety issue or the ability to report it before now. As a result there are no photos of my Jeep on a curb about to crash into someone's house. With the number of reports of this issue having already been made to the NHTSA I am shocked that a mandatory safety recall was not demanded.

Every single time I fill up the tank, it runs a very short distance from the gas station and starts to buck and jolt like it wants to shut off. When the car stalls out, the steering wheel locks up and the brakes lose power. Very dangerous!.

After fueling with gas, my vehicle immediately stalled. It was then fine after I restarted it until I got to a roundabout where it stalled again, losing all power steering, brakes, power, speed, in heavy traffic. It was fine for a week after this until I got gas again, in which case, I was just about to enter the interstate when it stalled again, losing all of the basic functions again in rush hour traffic where I had to sit on the side of the road for 20 minutes while my vehicle ran and stalled repeatedly until it worked itself out. This is a very dangerous situation and could have been much worse had I already been on the interstate. This is a definite issue that needs to be taken seriously and fixed as I see I am not the only one that has had this issue. I got gas again last week where afterwards my Jeep stalled on main street during lunch traffic. I shouldn't have to be scared to put gas in my vehicle in case it decides to stall in another dangerous situation. I am worried about my safety and any passengers I may have with me at any point in time when it stalls and stops working completely while I am driving down any road. I am also concerned that I will be doing more wear and tear damage on my battery and starter as I am trying to restart my vehicle after it stalls on these roads with minimum to no shoulders. Thank you for your immediate attention to this horrible issue.

Going to town driving between 45mph and 50mph and the front tires stop turning and skid to a stop. Therefore causing my head face to strike the steering well resulting in a bleeding nose and a bruised chest.

2007 Jeep Patriot, new tie rods at 24000 miles, had to change all of the disc brakes due to rust and cracking at 48000 miles, told by our mechanic that it was unsafe to drive. At our last vehicle inspection on 07-01-2011 we were told that it needs new ball joints since they were cracking, the car has less that 60,000 miles.

2007 Jeep Patriot 4x4 with almost 37k miles needs new rear brakes and ball joints. Repair is approximately $1,000. This has never been taken off roading although it is "trail rated" . Brakes and ball joints should not fail so soon and the consumer should not have to pay such a high repair cost. Jeeppatriot. Com and other sites have several complaints on the same issue. This could be a serious safety issue, especially if there were an inexperienced driver at the wheel!.

The contact owns a 2007 Jeep Patriot fwd. While the vehicle was parked in the driveway, it lunged forward into oncoming traffic and crashed into another vehicle. The air bags failed to deploy at the time of impact. This is the second occurrence of the vehicle attempting to move while the brakes were depressed. A police report was filed. The failure and current mileages were 11,500.