Engine Shut Off Without Warning Problems of Jeep Patriot - part 1

When my car first started having problems it shut off when at a drive through. Then it started happening on the highway when I slow down to make a turn or stop at a traffic light with no warning light just shut off. Then it began shutting off just during normal short driving. I would be going 40-60 on the freeway and the steering wheel would lock up & my car would start shutting off. I was still able to engage the brake, safely move my car to the shoulder, put it on park, then restart it, then proceeded on my mission. This past week it started dying when I was in bumper to bumper traffic but this time only the tire yellow warning light came on & the steering wheel locked up & I tried to step on the brake pedal but the Jeep continued to roll until it decided to stop on its own. Fortunately, I was able to move it to the shoulder of the freeway while the Jeep was still moving. Once my Jeep was safely on the shoulder I put it on park then turned the ignition off and then turned it back on & would keep going like normal. On Monday, April 5, 2021, I was parked at work & when I tried to leave for home I turned my Jeep on and it stalled immediately, so I turn the ignition off & back on but it started to shake and very choppy but it never actually started so I had it towed home because I strongly felt my personal "life safety" compromised and felt very insecure driving it on the freeway. These incidents happened several times throughout the last 1&1/2 years.

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Engine shut off while driving.

In July 2020, I was driving, and my engine light came on. Went to Jeep, in reno, nv, which diagnosed it as a camshaft sensor error; it would need to be repaired but not critical. Tech reset sensor, and said if it comes on again, we should set a date for repair. On sept 3, 6:40pm, driving on the highway, coming out of an interchange, my car shut down! everything. Luckily, close enough, I coasted off to the right and took the first exit, braked hard, and came to stop. Couldn't restart. Ordered a tow. Ten min later, tried again, the car started, and drove it 3 miles home @ 25 mph. Hit 30mph, it kinda 'chunked', and I went back to 24-25mph. Sept 4, I took to lithia Jeep, again. Left it with them. They called me later, and said it was the crankshaft sensor, and would need to be replaced. Total cost: $700. They kept it over the labor day weekend, and will fix & return, sept 8, 2020. I googled the issue; discovered a recall for Jeep Patriot's manufactured may-July 2016. Today, sept 7, contacted the Chrysler recall dept, regarding the s89 recall, learned my vehicle was manufactured Jan 15, 2016, and not included in the recall s89. My vehicle, same make/model, with the exact same issues as in the recall. The agent said I have to get the dealer to acknowledge the issue is the same as the recall; then request a review by the Jeep dealer's regional supervisor, who, if approves, allows me to submit paperwork, to request Chrysler pay all bills related to issue, back to the July 2020 camshaft sensor issue, up to and including the repair of both the camshaft sensor, and the crankshaft sensor. This seems like a lot of footwork for me, let alone all the paperwork to submit for, hopefully, payment after the fact, for work related to a recall. Can you step in and help? can you add more vehicles manufacture dates to the recall, to include mine?.

At the first instance of the engine stalling, the vehicle was in motion, but slowing to stop at a red light. The next instance of the vehicle stalling, it was stopped. The engine shut down, but tried to restart on its own. After resetting the ignition key, and waiting about 3 minutes, the vehicle started. . . And remained in a running state until we arrived at home. The next time the vehicle was used, it was started via the key fob. It started, and within 15 seconds, the car shut down. Later that day, we took it to a valvoline oil change facility, where they checked for engine codes via the obd port. And error of "crankshaft position sensor" was noted. Later that day, while pulling in to a parking lot, the vehicle stalled and attempted a restart on its own. After several minutes, the vehicle was restarted. While driving on the highway (at around 60 mph), the engine stalled and attempted a restart 4 times (on its own). It restarted, and stayed that way for the remainder of the trip home. In researching this problem, there is a recall (s89) on this type of vehicle, but the date of manufacture is out of range with our vehicle, or does not apply to the all wheel drive version (which we have).

While driving my engine randomly shuts off and my wheel locks. After it does so the car won't start back up. When it finally does and I get the car into park, the car shuts back off and it repeatedly does so until it won't start at all and I have to wait 15-39 minutes for it to start up and drive normal. This happens more than 5 or 10 mines on a daily basis. It happens on highways, city streets, it even shuts off when I'm not in motion. It doesn't matter what speed I'm going or if I'm increasing or decreasing my speed. It shuts off when ever and where ever.

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When in idle at a traffic light, the Jeep engine shut off randomly with a beeping alarm and red flashing bolt on the dash, required me to turn the key to the off position and restart the car, this has also happened once while vehicle was in motion. Battery is new and both the battery and alternator tested good. When accelerating, braking, or steering, the cabin lights, headlights and dash/radio dim or brighten often slight flickering and some times the interior roof cab lights randomly turn on while driving even when no door is ajar and dimmer switch is turned down or completely off. Appears there is some sort of electrical short or power draw issue. The rear drum breaks continuously squeal, leak and leave rust residue corroding the rims even though I've had them maintained and changed by certified goodyear mechanics.

The partriot randomly stalls while travelling at any speed. The engine shuts off and car has to coast to a stop. It is extremely dangerous and only a matter of time before someone is injured or killed. Multiple mechanics and the Jeep dealership have no clue as to how to fix the problem. Online research shows this is a major issue for many Jeep owners, not just Patriots. Jeep / Chrysler has a major issue and will not acknowledge or address it. If they refuse to do anything, they should be prepared to pay for their lack of addressing this critical issue. It takes less than a minute to search and see how many people are affected with engine stalling issues with Jeep automobiles. I hope the NHTSA will conduct a thorough review of these issues and force more attention to be given to the serious issue. I bought this car for my daughter and now we can't let her drive it because it is too dangerous. We have spent over $2k trying to address this issue. There are no recalls or other assistance that Jeep can or will offer.

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The engine shut down while driving on a city street. Was able to push the car to the side of the road. Put a code reader on and got po339 code, crankshaft position sensor intermittent. Reset the code and car started and I drove home.

While driving or in a parked position while the engine runs, the rpm needle drops to zero 0 and my car doesn't accelerate when pressing the gas pedal. There are times I am on the highway and rpm drops to zero 0 and I have to pull over on the shoulders. I would have to put the car in park, and shut my car off for extra minutes or more before I can fully restart it. If I try turning the car on before the 2 minutes it would take a longer time to restart. This is very dangerous because the car shut off when I'm at the stop light, in the middle of the highway. When making a turn, and the rpm needle drops to zero 0, my steering wheel becomes so stiff/harden and is very very difficult to complete the turn.

Tl- the contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot latitude. The contact stated that while driving at 20 mph, the vehicle shut off without warning. Due to the failure, the contact towed the vehicle to oxmoor Chrysler Dodge Jeep ram 4520 shelbyville rd, louisville, ky 40207 (502) 895-4520 where they replaced the pcm on the vehicle. The contact stated that while traveling at 40 mph,the vehicle shut off again without warning. The contact was able to pull of to the side of the road and had the vehicle towed back to the same dealer. The vehicle was diagnosed and the contact was informed that the crankshaft sensor was defective and was given an estimate for the repairs. Upon investigation, the contact associated NHTSA campaign number:16v907000 (engine and engine cooling) with her failure; however, her vehicle was not included in the recall. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and referred her to NHTSA for assistance. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was 43,000. Jo.

� takata recall� while driving my 2016 Jeep Patriot in motion on a city street , my engine shut off and I got several lights on my dash . After putting in park the vehicle restarted , but I have a 4 year old son and I dont feel safe driving on the freeway and not knowing if my vehicle is going to stop suddenly in traffic .

Jeep stalls when driving. It has happened 6x in the past 2 weeks. Twice the engine shut-off without warning. No warning lights on the dash board. It just shut off. It will start after say 5 or 8 minutes and its scary especially driving on 460e from norfolk to richmond 3x a week for work. Will send it to the Jeep dealer shop on 9/10/19. I purchased it new. It has 29000 miles on it.

I have about 48000 miles on my car in the last week it's been stalling while driving the engine stalls and it just shuts down I have a young child and it's scary and not safe. It has done it at multiple variations of miles per hour. No warning, engine light flashes once I give it a couple minutes it generally cranks back up and either stalls out again.

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My car shuts down while driving. The stability light goes on and the engine dies while on the road.

My Jeep starts stalling and shuts down with no warning. It is completely dangerous and needs to be fixed. We have spent over a thousand dollars fixing this issue. As we are driving the car stalls then completely shuts down, no warning causes people to slam on breaks or swerve to not hit into. This has been happening for months.

Vehicle shuts off while driving. Engine light turns on for a day or so then turns off. Error code: p0335 crankshaft position sensor a circuit.

Brief summary: I purchased the 2008 Patriot in 2014 with 70k miles. First occurance of vehicle stalling and shutting off occured in 2015 with 80k miles; when the throttle body light/ esp began flashing and sputtered a few seconds before it shut off while in motion. The vehicle restarted with in 10 minutes. I had the throttle body and gasket repaired. Since then there has been other random occasions of stalling where the throttle light/ esp and engine light flashes precedding a stall. Now 2018-19 (107k miles) I went in for diagnosis because my car stalled agin this time was in busy traffic and throttle light, esp lights, engine light came on before the engine shut off. I have been advised that there is a crankshaft issue that causes the engine light to come on and stall the vehicle intermittently. I had crankshaft replaced the spark plugs changed, the throttle body cleaned and the electical harnesses serviced to yet have the same issue occur when the vehicle stalled 24 hrs after repairs. The engine, throttlebody and esp lights came on again with in 24 hours before shutting off in the middle of a busy intersection of traffic. I am now having a 3rd independent mechanic look into the issue and see if there is anything else that could be causing the intermittent stalling. I spoke with Jeep customer care and they stated that my particular VIN doesn't have a recall although other Patriots of the same class have had same occurence and recall yet there is nothing that they can do for me in this case to address the safety issue or repairs since I am out of warranty. I strongly reccommend that the dot investigate this matter and require Jeep to either recall the vehicle or require Jeep to repair these vehicles to safe performance on the roads and/or refund me the purchase price as I am still in contract paying for a non functional risky vehicle.

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Acceleration has been stalling a month after purchasing the vehicle. Oil change has been up to date as well as the diagnostics but unfortunately we still haven?t found the cause. We didn?t think too much of it until a friend of ours transmission just shut down on hers and she had the same issue with her 2014 Jeep Patriot. The stalling comes and goes but often stalls when accelerating.

While driving the car it shuts off. Waited a few minutes and came back on. Drove 2 times (one time on a highway, next on a country road) less than 20 minutes when it turns off. Took it in for repair and they are replacing a throttle body sensor that is not working after 46,000 plus miles.

Tl the contact owns a 2009 Jeep Patriot 4x4. While driving various speeds and attempting to accelerate, the vehicle shut off without warning. The vehicle was able to be restarted. The contact called livonia Chrysler Jeep at 734-525-5000 (located at 30777 Plymouth rd, livonia, mi 48150) and was informed to call the manufacturer. The failure recurred several times. The manufacturer was made aware of the failures and stated that there was no recall. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 97,000.

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When the vehicle slowed down and waited at intersection or middle lane, the engine shuts off by itself. When it is restarted, the power is back either immediately or after a few minutes. I read online and many many customers reported this problem, ranging from very new Jeep Patriot (less than 10,000 miles) to driving at high speed. . Read more...

After filling up at gas station and getting on highway engine shuts off after the Jeep bucked several times. When engine shut off steering wheel locked. Had to put car in neutral urn key to turn on engine. Additionally after that,Jeep continually dies immediately following fill up at gas station. It currently dies approximately 3 times in a row before the engine will stay running. This is a highly dangerous event. If it shuts off and I do not wait at the gas station while I'm driving down the road then the steering wheel locks and I could have an accident and kill myself or someone else. This is a serious situation that Jeep / Chrysler needs to fix. Was there a crash . . . Almost!.

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April 2017, while driving on the freeway Jeep started to shake. Etc and engine light were lit up, car would not accelerate. Pulled over at nearest exit. Shut off car and tried to restart, car would not start. Dealership determined that throttle body needed to be replaced. August 2018, while waiting at stop light I started to make a right turn. Car was shaking and did not want to accelerate. Traction control and engine light turned on. Had to shut off vehicle and restart in the middle of a city street. Car restarted, the next day only engine light stayed on. While at stop light and foot on the break the engine shut off. All lights and radio stayed on. Restarted car, driving fine. Took it to dealership, they replaced the throttle body again (and wanted to do so at my expense). While attempting to return my car, it shut off on them. They returned it to me saying it had been fixed. Next day problem persisted and became more frequent. Took back to the dealership, they replaced sensor cam and sensor cra to my expense. Now my breaks are shaking. It's a three year old car. I'm the second owner. It shouldn't be having these types of problems. I'm not spending more money at the dealership. I'm selling the vehicle. I'll be sure to never purchase Jeep or any other Chrysler brands.

Car shuts off and loses power at various speeds 1-65 miles per hour. When it loses power the power steering goes out and you better pull over fast or you wont be able to move the vehicle until you can get it to start back up. Sometimes it takes a while to start back up. This has been happening to me for 5 months now�. I've taken to the dealership 2 times and they keep telling me nothing is wrong. . . I never got notified of any recalls and they didnt even investigate to see if there was a recall on my Jeep Patriot the two times I've had it in. I am now having it towed to the dealership because it will not drive more than a few feet with constant shut down. It is dangerous. This happens at all speeds, up hill, down hill, flat, etc.

70k miles it started stalling while I was driving, mainly in city going 25-45mph. The 1st time I had have it jumpstarted. 2nd and 3rd time I was not able to jumpstart. Took it to the dealership, they said the code for the abs module came up so they replaced it. The repair cost $550 and I drove it 3 days and the car died again while going through a stoplight, they traction control light came on. Had to have it towed. They said the connection wire was bad to the new abs module they replaced so they replaced the connector. I drove it a week, the rpms dropped out and engine stalled while going 70mph. Same thing happen a week later while acclerating on an on ramp. Now its 3 days after the last time it died and it has stalled on me 3 times in one day, and I have to wait 2-3 mins with the engine shut off then I am able to restart it. This car is not reliable, I have no warning of when it will shut off or if I will be stranded and have to have it towed. Its scary going down the highway at 70mph and the engine dies!!!.

While driving at a low speed or idling at a stop sign the vehicle will shut off without warning. When this happens I must put my car in park, shut the car completely off, then restart, sometimes this happens multiple times in one day. This has happened while on city street, highways, while turning and while stopped, it has become unsafe and unreliable to drive. I am still unaware of what the issue is and have replaced several components on the vehicle that I think could have been linked: battery, throttle body, spark plugs, cam sensors, runner valve, and the catalytic converter. None of these replacements has fixed this issue. There is a recall for this issue with Jeep (n52) and when I called to tell them my vehicle is having this issue they just told me they would make a note, and they could not authorize a recall on my vehicle. I asked them if I took it into the Jeep dealership to get a diagnostic and they found this to be the issue could they issue they recall then they told me no and it would have to come out of my own expenses.

Around 50000 miles the engine started to stop accelerating during operation. During driving on a highway or city street (at all speeds) the engine would begin to malfunction without warning and the maximum speed that could be met was about 10mph with gas fully engaged. Pullingnover and restarting the vehicle would override this for a short time. It started to occur more frequently to the point I would have to restart my car a approximately 15 times to make a 9 mile trip to work. Happened several times driving on a highway at speeds of up to 65mph and almost caused accidents several times before I could pull off on to the shoulder. Eventually after months of this occurring at random intervals the car shut off while driving resulting in total loss of engine power and steering ability of the vehicle thankfully on a quiet back street where I was able to leave it after pushing it in neutral and have it towed. After several months of being in the shop and thousands of dollars later its running with a new engine. Multiple friends and family members with the same vehicle model make and year have this issue all around 50k miles.

Going down the road and the engine stalled. Gave no warning just shut off. I had my husband and 8 month old in the car. The engine did start back up.

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Since June 2018 I've experienced on going issues with the engine/transmission. While driving the entire front end starts to shake, all the lights on the dashboard come on and then the car stalls. I loose the ability to accelerate and steer during this time. First time this happened I was in delaware on the highway, they replaced the throttle body. Since then the car skips during deceleration mostly when the gears shift in traffic, going on rotaries or attempting to come off /on ramp. . Went to my usual mechanics ran codes ended up replacing sensor in the engine. The car again starts to skip and has ongoing issues accelerating. This is incredibly dangerous I've almost been in a couple accidents from when it decides it's time to accelerate, random engine shut off and inability to accelerate when it matters. I called Jeep apparently they are having lots of issues related to this.

After filling the gas tank the vehicle shuts off within a mile when idling. It does it at red lights and at low speeds.

Everytime right after I fill up my 2008 Jeep Patriot (car is shut off while fueling) the Jeep either bucks me back and forth like it's a manual getting stuck between gears for about 1 minute (it's an automatic) or it stalls and dies (car shuts off). So far when the Jeep dies it has turned back on. . This happens normally under a half mile after the Jeep has been filled up with gas to the fill mark. The car is in motion when this occurs and it usually occurs on city streets seeing as most gas stations are in town, but this has occurred on the highway after filling up with gas at a station located right off of the highway.

We have been having a re-occurring issue where after filling the gas tank, the car will stall shortly after leaving the gas station. The latest incident happened on may 6, 2018 after filling the tank and letting the pump's auto-shutoff stop fueling. Leaving the gas station I pulled out into a high-speed 4 lane road and as I accelerated the engine shut down. As a result of the stall I immediately lost all power steering and power braking ability and was almost struck by cars behind me as we all expected me to be able to accelerate up to cruising speed. I was able to safely pull to the side of the road and re-start the engine. After this initial stall, the car ran normally. This has happened several times, with each engine stall occurring shortly after refueling. The immediate loss of power is a major safety issue and should be investigated immediately.

After filling up with gas, the car started jerking when driving. When sitting at a traffic light, the car just shut off. This occurs after filling up the tank with gas. When sitting at traffic lights, the cars rpm's drop that the car almost shuts off if you don't keep it moving.

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While driving on highway and city streets, car has completely shut down without warning or warning lights, no engine, no power steering no electrical anything. This is a death trap and serious bodily harm waiting to happen. Highly dangerous, especially on highway. This has happened at least 8 times and has been into the Jeep dealer 4 times to get fixed, to no avail. It keeps happening and is now back at the dealer. Last time, they replaced abs module and bled system. Still didn't work. Lots of complaints of this online over many years. Date it happened is first time, but it is now in shop for the 4th time. 2016 Jeep Patriots were recalled for this very problem, but no other year. Why?!!!.

While driving down the highway engine just shut off, no warning or lights. Brought into dealer they replaced the pcm module. The following day it did the same thing, brought back to dealer no lights on dash or codes showing up. It happened anytime of dat no matter where I'm at. It almost loses power going up hills but doesn't stall completely until about a mile down road. They can't seem to find the issue. They told me to drive it until it happened again. This is a major safety issue because when it shuts off I loose power steering. I have children I transport everyday. I wish they can find the issue I see im not the only one with this issue.