Throttle Control Warning Light On Problems of Jeep Wrangler

Our son was driving on 287 south in new jersey around on 7-21-2019. It was a hot day. He had been driving home from the adirondack mountains for about 3 hours and 15 minutes. His speed was just under 70 mph in the middle lane when suddenly the car wouldn't maintain its speed. The car slowed down and would not accelerate, even though the engine made a sound like it was trying to accelerate. The red throttle warning light appeared on the dashboard. He pulled over safely and stopped and turned the car off. He waited about 10 minutes to start it again. . . When he turned the engine back on the red light was off and he drove home slowly in the right lane without incident. The next day we took it to the Jeep service department. They tried the vehicle several times and could not identify the problem, and we took it home. We are scared, however, to drive it on the highway now!.

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Issues started with vehicle not able to start and inability to shift out of park. Battery would test good. After disconnecting battery, vehicle would start as usually. Issue began to escalate with oil light and esp light randomly lighting up on the dash. Finally, electronic throttle control and esp light would come on while driving and accelerator was unresponsive while driving on highway. I have replaced the throttle body and the entire wiring harness with no resolution. I am now replacing the computer in hopes that it will resolve the issues. I have had the Jeep in for auto service 5 times since January.

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Getting on the highway I reached the speed limit and merged into the right lane, when I eased off the throttle I noticed that the throttle physically stayed in place and the vehicle kept accelerating. I tapped the breaks and received the throttle position indicator alarm. I looked ahead to see how much room on the road I had and where other vehicles were, and I had some room. Looking at the throttle pedal I saw no reason why it would be stuck in position, the mopar rubber matts for Jeep have a cut away as to not be in the way of the pedal. I through the Jeep in neutral (its an automatic) and slammed the throttle pedal several times with my foot and it released and returned to idle position. Afterwards I place the gear in drive and regained control. The Jeep dealership in harrisonburg said the floor mats are aftermarket and were the cause. Although the cutaway is clear. This is the first time this happened, although other I have read had the same problem. It was terrifying as the Jeep went up to 80 mph in a 60 mph zone before I arrested the situation.

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The contact owns a 2011 Jeep Wrangler. The contact stated that the electronic throttle control warning light illuminated on the instrument panel as the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was restarted but would not accelerate beyond 40 mph. The vehicle was not inspected or repaired and the manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The current and failure mileage was approximately 3,500.

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The contact owns a 2007 Jeep Wrangler. Whenever the contact was driving various speeds to include approximately 35 mph, the throttle body light had appeared on the dashboard. He also noticed that the vehicle occasional would not accelerate after coming to a stop. The dealer replaced the throttle body; however, the contact is still experiencing the failure. The current and failure mileages were 31820.

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While driving at roughly 70 mph on highway throttle felt a little weird then the rpms dropped to zero as the electronic throttle control light on the dash came on. Immediately headed for the shoulder as I lost power steering and power braking although the electronic steering/braking system was alerted during my swerve towards the shoulder. The vehicle was very unresponsive. Upon reaching the shoulder the vehicle stalled. Turned off the vehicle, and then restarted it and cautiously returned home. Consulted the manual and it appeared that such events were expected and considered normal if the electronic throttle control light did not returned upon restarting the vehicle. The vehicle has shown signs of repeating this trouble and during those times I have let off the throttle, down shifted and then shifted up again in hopes that whatever glitch was occurring would be reset. Conditions: late afternoon, f, driving for about 45 minutes manual transmission , stereo was on.

Since the day I drove the 2007 4-door Jeep Wrangler sahara off the dealer's lot the electronic throttle control light kept coming on. I had to pull over every time the light came on and restart the car. I normally could not drive more than 5 miles until I have to pull over to restart the car. After reading about all of the stalling problems people were having I wa sconcerned about my safety and the safety of those riding with me. The stalling seemed to have something to do with the electronic throttle control system. I took vehicle to the dealer once and they did a software upgrade, but could not find any other problems. The light continued to come on. The dealership knew of no problems but after doing a tiny bit of research on the net, I have found that a lot of people were having this problem.

While driving the vehicle stalled while coming to a stop. As it idled to ~600 rpms the engine died. The car was restarted, and the vehical stalled again at the next intersection. The only light that was lit was the throttle control warning light. Preceeding this occurrence, on 6 separate occasions, the throttle control warning light would come on while driving. The only direction in the manual was to turn the vehicle off and then on again. I have seen several complaints about this stall bug associated with the 2007 Jeep Wrangler jk. I could only hope that this did not occur again, and am fortunate it occurred while I was at low speeds.