Driving on the interstate at highway speed the red lightning bolt warning light came on, as did the check engine and traction control lights and the accelerator cut out. I was able to coast across 3 lanes to the side of the road, but this has happened three times and apparently my 2016 Patriot wasn't included in the recall that addressed this issue.

- Seattle, WA, USA

While driving home from work on the interstate yesterday at about 60mph, my Jeep suddenly loss power and started shaking. It wouldn't accelerate at all. I had to quickly put my flashers on as to not cause an accident while I tried to pull into the emergency shoulder. I turned the car off for a few minutes then restarted it to drive home.

- Temple Hills, MD, USA

The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot. The contact stated that while driving approximately 45 mph, the vehicle failed to accelerate with the accelerator pedal depressed. The check engine warning indicator illuminated. The contact coasted the vehicle off the roadway. The vehicle was restarted however, the failure recurred five times. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer nor independent mechanic to be diagnosed. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 97,000.

- Paterson, LA, USA

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.

- Washington, DC, USA

My car doesn't accelerate like it should and getting on the highway or trying to speed up on highway, the car stalls and doesn't want to go. The RPM doesn't go anywhere and the car jerks a lot. It happening more everyday than before when it would only happen ever so often.

- St. Ann, MO, USA

The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot. The contact stated that while her husband was driving with the cruse control activated, the vehicle independently accelerated without warning. The driver was unable to deactivate the cruise control. The vehicle continue to accelerate. The brake pedal was depressed and was able to bring the vehicle to a stop. The vehicle was restarted and operated as intended. The contact called stephen wade Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram Fiat dealer, (1724 hilton dr, St. George, ut 84770) and scheduled an appointment which was still pending. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer and was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 45,000.

- Mesquite, NV, USA

Bought Jeep in 2018 since then it has had intermittent cruise control problems. Sometimes it works sometimes it dont. Sometimes it works then quits working. Drivers seat belt will be buckled and come unbuckled have to rebuckle intermittently. Burning smell intermittently dont know if its oil, coolant or what was supposed to be fixed by Jeep who said it was leaky coolant still occurs. All of this has occurred while on the road.

- Buffalo, KY, USA

The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot. While the vehicle was idling at a stop sign, it failed to accelerate. After a few seconds, the vehicle surged forward and started to hesitate. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for diagnostic testing. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 65,700.

- Tulare, CA, USA

Vehicle throttle control lights comes on when car is in motion which will then slow down the vehicle which can cause an accident that you can no longer control the steering wheel. When that light comes one the engine light and traction control lights come on as well. When on the highway car will lose acceleration which again you can't pull over it will just stop. This is very dangerous and can cause death. I have read so many more of the same complaints something needs to be done about this.

- Roselle, IL, USA

Takata recall the tcm on my Jeep Patriot short-circuited out of nowhere and now it causes my transmission gears to slip while I'm driving and makes my rpms rev really high wow my acceleration is minimum meaning when I put my foot on the pedal and press the rpms jump really high and my car barely even picks up speed I was driving on a city street and all of a sudden I felt something was wrong that's when I noticed the rpms revving really really high while my car was slowing down it's never done it before and it causes traffic because my vehicle will run real slow and takes almost me having to put my pedal to the ground just so I can speed up enough to get out of the way so when I got home I hooked up an obd monitor to my car and it said lost tcm communication now I can't even drive my car because I'm afraid I'm going to blow up the engine or something

- San Antonio, TX, USA

Vehicle stalls while driving unexpectantly, while driving and leaves no recourse or corrections for the driver to be made. Power to all of the vehicle systems stayed on whilst all the controls of the vehicle were removed from the driver. Eventually restarted. But refuses to start after being stationary again. Was driving down a city street when my car just stalled out on a straightaway. Finally restarting and making it home, and now not starting again.

- Manchester, MO, USA

The car would hesitate when accelerating and slow down to a very low speed before bucking and thrusting until the speed would increase. The slowness was slow enough on a highway to almost cause an accident.

- Bethlehem, PA, USA

2016 Patriot with,54,000 miles. No major issues prior. 2 weeks ago however, I was left stopped in the middle of a highway entrance ramp, almost rear-ended by a semi and side swiping a construction sign to avoid being hit. When accelerating the etc symbol (lightening bolt) will display, traction control icon and check engine light will display. The Jeep completely stops accelerating (highway speed to 0 mph within seconds=deadly), it will shake before just dying. If I'm lucky I'll make it to the shoulder (if it happens to have one). Through google research, I came across a way to do a "reset" (turn car off, insert key and turn "on", press gas pedal slowly, release slowly, turn car off and then restart the engine). Doing this typically clears the icons and I'm able to travel again. This intermittently happens, so you never know when you're potentially about to be involved in an accident from stopping in the middle of the roadway. When driving on city/town roads, it has not completed stopped as stated above, but will "jump" when switching gears, then throw the etc symbol. If I let off the gas, the icon goes away and car runs normal. I took it to a mechanic 1 day ago and was told to get a new battery. The battery was changed 1 day ago and the issue occurred multiple times today. Through online searches it appears this is a terribly common issue that Jeep has yet to address! someone is going to end up losing their life because of this malfunction. There appears to be no way of knowing this is going to happen or any preventative measures that a typical person would know to take to avoid this deadly malfunction. As easy as it is to just take it to a mechanic, that is not financially possible for everyone and in this situation needs to be addressed by Jeep as it is recurring issue and is deadly. Nothing as a vehicle owner would avoid this from occurring.

- New Cumberland, PA, USA

I was going uphill on a rural road when my car powered down and the rpms dropped down to 0. it kicked right back in, it happened one more time on my way home through the city. When I got into my driveway, before I could come to a complete stop it dropped rpms and powered down. After a half an hour I went out to head to a dr. Appt and my Jeep wouldn't start.

- Ithaca, NY, USA

Vehicle loses power and ability to accelerate. This occured while driving on the interstate at 65 mph. Thankfully, I was able to get vehicle to side of road. Restarted and as driving home, vehicle tries to accelarate itself while car is idling. Had I not had my foot firmly on brake, it would have taken off. Took in for repairs and dealer states that throttle body is bad and this is a common problem on these vehicles. Advised that it was dangerous to drive as vehicle can lose power without warning.

- Salem, VA, USA

While at a full stop at a stop light, the car attempted to accelerate to 40 mph. A red lightning bolt lit up on the dash. The car was shut down. When the car was restarted, the check engine light came on. The car still randomly attempts to accelerate under all and any driving conditions. So far the acceleration sensor has been replaced with no avail. Currently trying another service group to isolate and correct the problem. The vehicle is dangerous because there is no predictable pattern to the random accelerations. The date noted is the last occurance. We've been attempting to get the vehicle repaired since July 18, 2018.

- Manahawkin, NJ, USA

I was driving down the road and barely touched the shifter and when I touch the shifter it slipped over into where you shift your gears I feel like it's a could catch the car on fire because it is revved up so high and you don't even realize it because you cant hear it unless you you got radio off and windows up and you can never tell I definitely think they should have made it more safe when from some kind of a lock on the shifter for when you want to go over into where you shift the gears yourself not to mention how expensive cars are and that you could very easily tear up your car by it being in the manual shifting area rather than the automatic shift

- Mabank, TX, USA

Vehicle has had total of 9 incidents involving check engine light involving fail code 22, P2127, P2138. Car has had stationary stall outs or no starts. While vehicle is in park has high rev to 3000 rpms. While car is driven in city has had rapid deceleration from 45 to 30 mph with jerky forward and back movement with no ability to control speed other than heavy breaking, no acceleration control. While on highway ;rapid uncontrolled deceleration from 65 to 40 mph, with no ability to re-accelerate with jerking forward and back motion. Self acceleration(driver has not engaged accelerator pedal) from stopped position= 0-40 mph requiring emergency brake application to stop with limited to no steering capability. Vehicle has been to multiple Jeep dealerships in co and AZ from 4/8/16-2/21/18. Multiple repairs have been completed with no resolution. Lemon law application and further litigation is ongoing.

- Phoenix, AZ, USA

The contact owns a 2016 Jeep Patriot. The contact stated that while driving at 70 mph, the vehicle jerked, the ABS and traction warning lights illuminated. The vehicle failed to accelerate and gradually lost power. The contact pulled over to the side of the road. The contact turned off and turned on the vehicle and was able to drive normally. The contact also stated that while driving at various speeds, the engine stalled, the ABS and traction warning light illuminated. The contact pulled over to the side of the road. The contact turned off and turned on the vehicle and was able to drive normally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer (Washington nc Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Fiat located at 4001 U.S. 264 West, Washington, nc 27889) where it was diagnosed that the passenger side wheel sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The contact stated that two days after the repair was done the same failure recurred several other times. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and was made aware of the failure. The manufacturer stated that a case manager would call the contact. A case number was provided but the contact did not have the number. The approximate failure mileage was 50,000.

- Grimesland, NC, USA

Started Jeep and all three lights presented on the panel (electronic throttle, electronic stability control, malfunction indicator light). Attempt to drive and would not move past 2krpm and commenced "stuttering" and then stalled. Had car towed to mechanic (mpg automotive and fernie's auto) to confirm failures.

- Tucson, AZ, USA