Automatic Transmission Park/neutral Start Switch Problems of Jeep Wrangler

While getting out of the vehicle and leaving it in idle, vehicle started to roll back and accelerate, running over some curbs and small hills before hitting a tree. Then, going forward into a fence before stopping. Contacted dealer, dealer was not willing to do anything.

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Vehicle was cutting off while in 1st gear with parking brake on. Half an hour later, consumer heard a door bang, vehicle had hit house, and caught on fire. Consumer felt vehicle started on its own. Please provide any further information.

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Car was in park with emergency brake partially on. Engine was running. Passenger got out and car rolled backwards crashing into a buidling smashing the walls and windows.

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Car was parked and it jumped out of gear into reverse and hit air pump at the gas station.

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While vehicle was in park it jumped out of gear, during idling and started accelerating in reverse, vehicle moved 20 feet before consumer was able to stop all movement. No determination has been made as to the cause of this problem. Consumer stated the vehicle was parked, and she stepped out briefly with door opened, there was a popping sound and vehicle accelerated into reverse at high idle.

In the evening, June 13th, 2001, my vehicle was parallel parked on a side street in boston, my partner shifted the automatic transmission into reverse, backed up approximately 2 feet, I was on the sidewalk guiding him back so as to not hit the car behind us. With his foot firmly on the brake, he shifted into drive, suddenly the engine revved high, and the vehicle lunged forward, striking a Toyota rav4 parked in front. My bumper guard hit their bumper hard and my grill lightly hit their rear mounted spare tire, but there was really no damage. Within a couple of seconds the engine idle returned to normal. Once the vehicle was out of the parking space, you could see tire skid marks approx. 3 feet long from the front tires, and the heavy smell of "burnt" rubber. After reading about the grand cherokee problem today, 08-03-01, it made me realize that if a person were standing between the vehicles on the day of my incident, they would have been crushed badly. I brought it to the dealer the following week , they said "they could not duplicate the problem and couldn't detect anything wrong. " the problem has not re-occured, but shortly after they needed to replace the wiring harness for the guages since they would all go off while I was driving, and the odometer indicated "no bus" I suspect the two are unrelated, but I'm not an expert. The dealer knew exactly what was wrong with the guages, but never had another report of the engine revving out of control as mine did. Thanks for your time. Regards, al fowler.

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Vehicle was in the park position when gear switched from park to reverse, causing vehicle to hit garage. Consumer had to be taken to emergency room for injuries to knee/ eye and ears. Please provide further details.

Consumer was pumping gas into vehicle and vehicle jumped out of park into reverse. Vehicle went down an incline, and hit another vehicle. Consumer states this has happened several times even with the emergency brake engaged.

The Jeep was in park when I got out to mail a letter. I left my drivers side door open. The Jeep slipped out of park and knocked me down. Next , the open door smashed our mailbox into me. The Jeep proceeded up the street, where I collected myself and ran after it. Fortunately, I was able to jump in and stop it, and no one was behind me. The door was completely wrapped around to the quarter panel because of hitting the mailbox.