Four problems related to owners/service manual have been reported for the 2014 Jeep Patriot. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
When driving on highways and city streets the whole dashboard lights up with all the warning symbols. Everything in the dashboard including the speedomoter resets to zero lights up and then goes off and on for a couple of miles. It sounds like the car system is trying to click on and off or readjust. I then am not able to accelerate above 40mph when the gas pedal is all the way to the floor while driving on highways, city streets and turning. The traction light is on although I do not manually have it on and sputters when turning on city streets and grinds gears and gets stuck not allowing me to accelerate above 20mph. After receiving a diagnostics from a Jeep dealership they said that the above stated issues could be related to the throttle body system. The issues are still occuring after mulptile mechanic checks.
On November 1, 2014 I purchased a new Jeep Patriot from a Chrysler/Jeep dealership. Shortly after that I noticed that the owner's information (a dvd of the owner's manual and u. S. Warranty) and the user guide (an abridged version of the owner's manual) did not match my vehicle in many ways. Also at that time I noticed that my 2014 Jeep Patriot did look exactly like the 2015 Patriots being sold, and matched the 2015 Patriot owner's information. Apparently Chrysler/Jeep started manufacturing 2015 Patriots, but titling them and selling them as 2014 Patriots, long before the published model year changeover date of the first week of auguat, 2014. However the owner's manual, user guide and warranty information were not revised, even down to the older Patriot model cover page pictures! when I contacted the dealership and Chrysler/Jeep about the issues they said that they deemed the vehicle to be a 2014 because it was manufactured before August and that the differences in the owner's manual and user guide were not significant. I went through the 2014 and 2015 owner's manuals, comparing them page-by-page and compiled three pages of omissions and inaccuracies, some safety related, in the unrevised 2014 owner's manual and user guide. Those differences included 12 missing warning! blocks and six missing caution! blocks in the unrevised 2014 owner's manual and user guide. Warnings! are "against procedures that could result in a collision or bodily injury". Cautions! are "agaiinst procedures that could result in damage to your vehicle. . . Observe all warnings and cautions. " the 2014 Jeep warranty information booklet does not contain the notice that California emission standards now apply in 11 other states in addition to California. The 2015 warranty information booklet does contain that notice as a supplement. Revisions, supplements, or retitling are needed.
This car I purchased has manual door locks. My wife has great difficulty unlocking the rear doors and for my mother in law it is impossible. The car was ordered so I was unaware of this problem. I believe the young, elderly, and those physically impaired would find it impossible to unlock the rear doors. Personnel at the dealership agree with my assessment and I have taken it back three times and was told they could not fix it. My last visit was today and spoke to the field service manager and he said nothing could be done. I sincerely believe that not being able to open the back door is an accident waiting to happen. Sincerely, pat kilroy 843. 813. 7738.
I was driving down the road, when the vehicle shifted from drive to 4th gear without being touched. This particular vehicle has an option to manually shift through the seven gears by bumping the shifter sideways. But nothing had came in contact with the shifter when it happened. It has since this first incident, shifted into lower gears multiple times and leaving the rpms near or in red lines. The only way to get it back into normal driving is to pull the shifter up into neutral and back down into drive. It will also DE-accelerate the vehicle quickly when you take your foot off the accelerator pedal and put it on the brake to shift back into normal driving.