CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2019 Cherokee is racking up engine complaints for suddenly shutting down while driving. But the problem could possibly be related to the increasingly defective 9-speed transmission which suffers from hard shifts, lurching problems, and a wiring harness defect that can cause sudden shutdowns or an unexpected shift into neutral.
10.0
really awful
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 6
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
7,058 miles
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When stop/start feature is active and I have come to a stop typically engine turns off and back on within a few seconds. Lately if I do not take foot off break in time it will stall. After stall I am able to restart car.
6/15/2020 24793 miles, while driving battery light came on jeep stalled. Started back up and while accelerating battery light came again and stalled. Took to Jeep dealership, they said batter had low charge. 6/3/21 31567 miles start/stop light came on. Tech found nothing 8/25/21 33881 miles check engine light came on Electronic throttle body control system replaced by Jeep, had to pay out of pocket !!! 10/27/21 35278 miles while slowing down door chime went off battery light came on and Jeep stalled. Tried starting back up it was hesitating finally started would happen randomly. Tech not able to duplicate 6/29/22 40866 miles Vehicle does not accelerate at all different speeds, same issues as before, Jeep relearned ETC Under warranty from 8/2021 replacement. 7/5/22 40959 miles while driving vehicle does not accelerate properly gas peddle to the floor speed does not go up but rpm-??s at 4000, has to pull over several times and restart vehicle. Jeep could not duplicate 9/16/22 43500 miles vehicle was not accelerating would not go over 40, rpm-??s going over 4000, making loud engine sounds, stabilization light came on along with message 4wd not in service. Jeep said they couldn-??t duplicate issue. Will hold overnight. Still awaiting answer. This is a major safety issue, putting me or whoever is driving along with passengers at risk, if vehicle isn-??t accelerating not able to go on highways, driving is limited due to not knowing what to expect. Driving through intersections very risky, have to make sure no one is anywhere near to being close because I don-??t know if I will get out of the way On time! Jeep dealership aware of the issue, since they replaced throttle body in 8/2021. But I believe all of the symptoms from the beginning are all linked to this issue. Stalling is a major safety issue. I bought a new car for safety reasons, to be reliable on a new car. Unfortunately I am not safe nor do I feel this car is reliable!
Every time I come to a red light or a stop sign and apply pressure to the break the voltage of the battery goes down. The vehicle cuts off and it will not start back up. I can be in a traffic jam and apply pressure to the brake and the vehicle will cut off leaving me in the middle of traffic. It will not start back up.
About 1 year after purchasing 2019 Jeep Cherokee, the SUV would stall. This is what happens: stopped at a red light or a stop sign. Foot is on the brake. Once the light turns green, or I can now process beyond the stop Sign, I lift my foot off the brake, to the gas. As soon as my foot is lifted from the brake. The auto park/brake goes on. The brake pedal gets stuck. I am not able to drive. The light turns orange for the parking brake(was not prior) the light turns orange where it states -??PULL ON (P) -??. Cars in back of me start to beep their horns. I have to then put the car into park (it is currently in drive). After placed in park, I have to completely turn the engine off. Restart the car/SUV, then go back into drive. There has been times when I was not able to do this (ie restart the SUV). I would have to spend several minutes trying to push (pump) the brake a few times that is locked now. I only have to do this when I am Not able to put the car into park from drive before restarting the car (SUV). This happens without me even adjusting the Brake / Park that reads -??PULL ON -?? with a -??P-?? and circle. Meaning, the parking brake light is not on when this happens; it is off. I Have brought to the dealership and told they -??cannot replicate the problem.-?? They explain -??diagnostics -?? were run and there is no issues. I thought maybe it has something to do with electrical and the engine shutting off automatically while stopped a light. I asked if this feature could be turned off and was told by the dealership it could Not be. Meaning, the feature where the car engine shuts off when stopped at a light. No resolution; dealership overall dismissive of concern. Recently have noticed rarely that the lane change departure feature will not light up or alarm when there is a -??blind spot-?? and a car present. This was a new purchase in 2019 and was not a used car purchase. The year of the car is a 2019.
When stopped the car will engage the emergency break and stall. The car then has difficulty restarting. It will just turn over and over and eventually after letting it sit for a minute, it will restart. The brake light and now the battery light come on. Initally, we thought it may be due to the seat sensor & the car thinking that no one was in it so it was engaging the brake. However, the dealership says the seat sensor is fine. Now it is my understanding this may have to do with the auto start stop and the aux battery not fully charging which causes it to pull power from the main battery. There is no way to permanetly turn off the stop/start. By turning it off temporarily, it causes the aux battery to not charge but if I leave it on my car stalls when stopped. Ive taken it in at least twice when under warranty & they "could not replicate" the issue so it was never fixed. Now it's 3 months out of warranty and is stalling regularly - twice in the last week. They said they may try to get it covered under warranty since Ive brought it in multiple times before but they dont know. It is very unsafe to have the car stall when stopped. Im taking the car in today for them to look at it. Ive spoken to two dealerships and they both told me that this has been an on going problem they have seen on this car recently.
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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My dash material is lifting and I-??m not sure who to contact. Jeep said this is not an issue but I-??m finding many people with the same issue. This has to be a factory defect. How do I get this taken care of.
Stop/Start. The jeep will often stop while driving at any speeds, including top speed. It-??s as if the stop/start has kicked in abruptly stopping my car as I-??m driving. When this happens sometimes, not consistently, the stop/start light will come, or ye automatic brake lift even the motor light, When the situation occurs, I try to carefully pull over if I have not speed from coast to do so. Then I manually shut the ignition off and then re-start my jeep. The engine does not usually want to restart and sometimes takes several tries (as if it-??s an old car in cold winter temps). I have even stalled while going through a highway intersection. Because I had just started accelerating when I stalled there was not enoug speed so I stopped in the middle of intersection. Luckily people were able to swerve. I have two friends with the same make, model and year office. Both have experienced the same issues once their vehicles reached 60,000-70,000 miles. Their dealer found the problem to be with the automatic break lock. Unfortunately because I have not completely broke down, dealers have been unable to diagnose my problem. This is a huge danger and hazard. I hope to hear this is a recall or update that will he resolved soon.
The past months I've have been having trouble with my 8.4 Uconnect radio. I was told by a jeep dealership that I need a new radio paying out of my money and another dealership, originally from where I purchase the vehicle, that they can't do anything to help me. The issue is the lamination on the touch screen is peeling and causes the radio to press its own buttons all the time. i cannot use apple car play, Bluetooth, navigation system, USB port, radio, maps, google maps without it going crazy. it takes me longer to get to places with maps and have unable to answer phone calls hands free. I have a 7-month baby that I constantly have in the car and would like to avoid potential accidents. there hasn't been any accidents
The Auto Start/Stop will power down at a Red Light and shut the car off completely. I will Have to restart the car at the red light to prevent this from happening. It has happened several times already.
I was driving on a highway and the car completely shut down. there was no ability to start car back up using the power start or by pressing the start button. was unable to shift into neutral to move the car out of traffic, causing a jam. the car needed to be dragged onto a tow bed. took the car to jeep dealership to which no codes came up when they scanned it.
Vehicle will shutdown and stall with no warning primarily when coming to a stop. THE CONSUMER STATED THE 2019 JEEP CHEROKEE EQUIPPED WITH A 2.4L ENGINE HAS A KNOWN DEFECT WITH THE POWER TRAIN. THE CONSUMER REFERENCED RECALL UA9/18V-739.
While driving any speed over 65 mph the hood though latched and closed will flutter. Any attempts at making hood adjustments have not worked, still continues to flutter.
Several times while waiting at stop light car completely shuts off once needing to begin motion. Shut down has taken place during a turn. Car screen completely shut off as well and froze during driving. Car will turn off after trying to restart car. May stall a couple times before turning back on. Warning light shows start/ stop signal with exclamation mark. No lights were on prior to car completely shutting off. The car shutting off in mid turn could have resulted in my children and myself being seriously injured and a car rear ending or t-boning me. This vehicle has not been inspected as original dealer says this issue is not on recall and are currently backed up with vehicles due to being short staffed. Based off information provided the repairs may be costly.
I was driving my jeep and it shutoff randomly it Is apparently a problem with the 2.4 tigershark engines they burn oil excessively leading to a low oil sh*t off with no warning it has happened quite a few times
My vehicle stopped working 2 times while driving. I still had control of the brakes and steering but it was like the vehicle just shut off by itself while I was driving. Luckily I was in a residential area so I wasn-??t going that fast. I noticed to the control panels flashed or blinked and the car made a few beeping sounds.But after I pulled over put the car in park, shut it off then started it again it did sound like it was struggling to start again but it did and it was ok after that. But it was a scary experience, imagine if I had been on the freeway going 55 mph I-??ve also had problems with the start stop system, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn-??t. One other thing is when I accelerate sometimes there-??s a delay or it seems like the vehicle is struggling to pick up speed. And the last item not dangerous, just annoying..the radio will occasionally go loud soft, loud soft. But I found a way to make it stop when it happens I just switch from am and back to fm and then it-??s normal again but it would be nice not to have to do that every time I get in the car.
The radio screen has delaminated and Navigation now does not work and the screen constantly shows the message -??Do you want to adjust your clock settings-??. Doesn-??t matter if I click out via -??yes-??, -??no-?? or the -?? X-?? in the upper right corner, it just comes back on. It also makes a clicking noise and there is a flashing light on the time on the screen. This is distracting while driving, and the screen will go black when I-??m backing up so I can-??t see anything behind me. I am the second owner and the car is out of warranty so the dealer will not cover the cost of the repair. I have to fix it so I have my navigation and back up camera again. I did my research and apparently this is a huge problem with Jeeps and Chryslers. But no recall. This is affecting my driving with the screen flipping to that message and the clicking noise. My only choice is never using the radio. The dealer will order and install the new radio when I can come up with the money to pay for it. It-??s quite expensive. The problem has been confirmed by the dealer. They suggested I call FCA, which I did and they told me there was nothing they could do to offer any price relief.
The 8.4 uconnect screen is delaminating causing an internal malfunction. This presents a serious safety concern that has been repeatedly reported to the NHTSA and FCA. The screen goes black and freezes; causing loss of back up cameras, loss of navigation, climate and radio changing. The screen constantly changing causes distraction to the driver posing a significant safety issue. This is a known issue and yet FCA continues to put drivers, passengers and others on the road at risk by intentionally and knowingly concealing or omitting facts concerning the quality of the vehicle and the defective Uconnect and the risk to safety. FCA and the dealer concealed the defect with no intent to replace or repair the defect during the warranty period. Then refuse to cover the fix that is over $2,000. The issue has been reproduced at the dealer service department and on video. Prior to the complete delamination and screen failure the system would turn black and reboot frequently. No reasonable customer expects a vehicle to present a defect that exposes drivers and occupants to such a safety hazard.
Recently purchased this vehicle. FM radio volume cuts in and out randomly, and often. Some stations only work some of the time. Sometimes there is a lot of static. These are local stations that I have had no issue with in previous vehicles. AM radio and SiriusXM radio work fine. Only the FM radio seems to be affected. There have been no safety concerns, and the vehicle has not been inspected yet. I have researched this issue, and it seems to be a very common issue with Jeep that needs fixed. If the problem is this common, there should be a recall to have this issue fixed.
There is something wrong with the stop start functionality on this vehicle. I am not sure how it is connected to the car but it causes my car to stop while I am driving literally. I've had this issue since I purchased the car I took it to the dealer to get fixed twice and called the manufacturer three times. I am having the issue again. I advised that dealership as well as jeep that I could get hurt if someone hits me from my car stopping abruptly ( I live in Chicago people drive fast and dangerously ) and they have done nothing to assist me with resolving the issue. but, whatever they keep fixing isn't the problem and I think that this is a violation of the law to have an unsafe vehicle on the road and I believe someone ( either Jeep or the dealership) were aware of the issues before I purchased the car. But, if I trade it in then someone else will just adopt the unsafe car at this point I am not sure what to do but reach out directly to the government but, I don't want to die my life is important to me and I cant just go buy another car I am not wealthy. I also, dont want someone to drive this car and something happens to them.
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- Savannah , GA, USA