Blind Spot Detection problems of the 2018 Jeep Wrangler

Recurring issue with my Jeep where seemingly every light on the dash, as well as the blind spot detectors, illuminates. The lights are accompanies by warning messages that indicate that electronic stability control and parking sense are unavailable. Abs lights, traction control, stability control, the brake light, and prompts to service 4wd are present. The impact varies based on whether or not the car is in motion. When it is not, as in the case of a cold start, the transmission is locked in park. When the car is in motion, power steering intermittently goes out. If you pull over and put the vehicle in park while the lights are illuminated (I. E. If they don't clear), the car will get stuck in park until the lights clear. I have had the vehicle towed to the Jeep dealership in natick, MA twice and, while they've charged me nothing, they've been unable to help due to the issue clearing and a lack of persistent diagnostic logs. Aside from the inconvenience, the sudden loss of power steering presents a safety issue. This has been going on for months, though the safety concern with steering only presented yesterday.

The sensors, in particular the blind spot warning, randomly light up and stay on until the vehicle is turned off. Radio and navigation system randomly shuts off, and check engine light goes on and off randomly. While driving at night, my entire dash flashed a red warning that there was no oil in the vehicle. I immediately pulled over at a gas station. It was dark, I couldn’t see, and it was 2am in a town I was unfamiliar with. I added 1 quart of oil ( I couldn’t really see the dipstick). The warning light went off, and the check engine light came on. I went 30 minutes to my destination and had the car towed to the dealership the next day. They said it was an O2 sensor, and that there was too much oil in the vehicle so they drained it and did an oil change. I picked it up, drove less than 5 miles, and the check engine light came back on. I immediately returned to the dealership. They had it for several days before telling me that I had to replace the catalytic converters (2 of them) because I had overfilled the oil. They deemed it my fault. Since then the sensor problems continued, and the check engine light would randomly go on and off. Now it’s at the dealership again because it was leaking oil after an oil change. The dealership, and inspector from my extended warranty are saying that it has a blown engine because there was too little oil (in spite of no sensor going off warning that the oil was low). Extended warranty inspector wants me to authorize a complete engine tear down for further inspection ($7000) and the dealership says I should just replace the engine ($11,000).

2018 Jeep Wrangler (jl) sahara safety features all disable with this issue: power steering (this could happen on the highway) stability (stc), antilock braking, blind spot, etc. While driving their appears to be an electrical short. The steering wheel locks up and all lights on dashboard come on. Several error messages "auto park disabled", "speed control messaging unavailable", "service antilock brake system", "service transmission continue in drive. Do not shift or turn off engine" - to name a few. Dealers turn me way with simple computer reboot solutions only for issue to reoccur. Issue presents itself intermittently. Dealer has regularly turned me away for being unable to replicate in non driving conditions.

The power steering went out while driving, check engine light came on, abs service, service shifter, start/stop unavailable, service 4wd, auto park disabled, blind spot alert, electronic stability control service, parking sense off. I could not shift out of park. Many people are having this problem with their 2018 Wrangler jl and jlu and later models. All you have to do is google this or go to youtube to see. It may be a faulty ecu. In any case, this is a problem and a safety hazard.

Service shifter comes on and can’t go into. While driving it’ll notify again and lock my steering making every hard to turn. Having to wait 10-30 mins just for to reset and get into gear then coming back on days later.

While driving at low speed in heavy rain vehicle lost power steering, engine service light, anti lock brake failure, skid control. Had to remove vehicle from roadway and restart engine, which corrected steering failure. Engine service light remained on. Vehicle is garaged. After being in garage for 24hrs engine service went out. Contacted dealer and was given appointment. Recommended not drive vehicle until service. Vehicle has 18,000 miles on it. Was told by dealer that battery failed which is tired into the crawl feature of the of the rubicon 2. 0 liter engine with crawl electric motor. Also told that there were many service bulletins.

1. Electrical system: instrument cluster/panel. An instrument panel that fails to display critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, can increase the risk of a crash. My VIN said there is no recall for this and my vehicle has this problem. 2. Blind spot warning becomes disabled and errors out periodically even when there are no issues with sensors and sensors are cleaned. When error occurs, the blind spot warning lights remain active even when there are no objects in the blind spot.