Consumer had to have the erotors replaced on the vehicle. After completing the work, consumer received recall notice (00v136000) in the mail regarding the rotors. Consumer is seeking reimbursement for monies paid.
1998 Jeep Cherokee transmission complaints
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Placed gear shift in park, then walked to the rear of the vehicle and raised the hatch. The vehicle started to roll backward toward the owner, owner jumped out of the way and the vehicle proceded into ongoing traffic. Managed to jump in and pulled the gear shift into forward gear and pulled back to sid of road, narrowly missing a semi-truck.
Transmission slips, when placing it in park, it slips back into reverse, in other words it does not lock in place. He was told that his vehicle is not in recall.*ak vehicle continues to exhibit problems with the transmission. Consumer had placed vehicle in park when it started moving backwards, transmission had slipped into the reverse position.
Ignition was on and gear was in park when vehicle took off in reverse into an embankment. Dealer has seen vehicle.
While driving 65 MPH transfer case, and transmission failed within four hundred miles of each other. When transmission failed smelled oil burning. Please provide any further information.
While driving consumer smelled smoke inside passenger's compartment due to transmission fluid leak. Vehicle was taken to the dealer, and dealer replaced transaxle. Please give any further details.
While driving, the air bag light illuminateed on dashboard, once the air bag light illuminates other lights will illuminate and then blink on and off, consumer took vehicle to the dealer.*ak consumer is requesting reimbursement for the air bag, due to discovering that there is a recall on the air bag sensor, however the problem still exists, also the speedometer drops to zero when driving.
Transmission jumped into reverse and dragged owner ten feet, resulting in hitting a stack of hardwood lumber.
My vehicle was turned on in park; while in park for less than 2 minutes the vehicle went from park to reverse; vehicle was stopped by hitting a tree. Now my trunk is damaged, and my power locks don't work; if I understand correctly there is a federal investigation going on with my particular brand of jeep; the dealer said they will not fix my jeep; so what I am suppose to do.
I was sitting in traffic when vehicle made loud noise coming from rear end. It had not been shifting badly or making any unusual noises. I had the transmission serviced at allen samuels chrysler jeep on hwy 3 houston, texas in june. They changed transmission fluid and never inidcated any thing else needed to be done to the transmission. .
Transmision failure caused veh. To continue to move while shift was in (p) park position.
The comsumer left the vehicle parked with the engine running, however the vehicle went in reverse and crashed into a tree causing damage to vehicle, once vehicle stopped, consumer checked the gear shift and it was still in park.
Possible transmission failure, transmission went from park into gear by itself.
Vehicle jerks when traveling. Vehicle was running but was in park. Vehicle jumped out of gear, and rolled backwards. Dealership was aware of problem.
Vehicle rolled backwards and caused accident, while key was in ignition and gearshift was in park. Consumer stated that previously the vehicle jumped to reverse from park and he was able to stop it from rolling.
The consumer placed the vehicle into park and exited the vehicle, the consumer then noticed that the vehicle began to roll backswards, the vehicle hit a garage and caused damage to the vehicle and the garage door.
I was going to go workout and had started my vehicle. I realized I forgot my gym bag in the house. I live in a townhome and there is a parking lot directly infront of the house. I left the car running in park in the parking lot. I then proceeded into the house to get my gym bag, when I returned the vehicle was moving backwards and headed towards my house. I quickly got inside and applied pressure to the brakes. I brought the vehicle to a stop just before the backend had hit a tree. I am 100% confident that I left the car in park. Fortunately there were no passing pedestrians or cars.
Car went from park position with motor running to reverse, resulting in hitting a wall at 10-15mph, which then jumped back in forward position.
While vehicle was parked, with the engine running, gear in park, it went from park to reverse and crashed into a ford f150 pickup.
Consumer left the vehicle parked with the motor running and all of a sudden, it jumped in reverse which resulted in damage to the vehicle.
Vehicle was parked/ running, and the gear slipped into reverse. Started running down road, driver's side door was opened, and door hit a tree and stopped. Dealership was aware of problem.*ak
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Vehicle was parked when it slipped out of gear and started to roll backwards. Consumer tried to jump into vehicle, and was injured when thrown from vehicle. Vehicle was totalled. *ak
Car amost ran over me, struck another vehicle. Was placed in park and jumped out. Did a moderate amt of damage to the other vehicle. I drove immediately to the dealership. They told me nothing was wrong and it was not the car it was me the driver. Told me the jeep passed inspection and that I just thought I put it in park. This also happened on 7/1/01 again, however the jeep was stopped before striking another vehicle. All of this infromation can be verified by a police report and insurance information. This caused a moderate amt of damage. If someone was behind the car, it could have crushed them. I had minor scrapes from trying to get back in vehicle and stop it to avoid a collision. This has cost me an increase in insurance premiums and also a wreck on my record. I have never had any type of accident. This was a very scary incident. However, the dealership convinced me it was operator error. However, after this happened again last week, I am not so sure. Thank you for your time.
Transmission shifting sticks and then thug's into position and vehicle drives.
At 13,395 miles cluster gauge on dash went out. No way to tell how fast vehicle was going because instruments on dash stopped working. Consumer took vehicle to dealer. Dealer cleaned connectors/ added electro lights, and reconnected plugs. However, same problem reoccurred. Consumer felt there was problem with connector. *ak tsb 08298 deals with problems consumer is experiencing, however on the second failure, consumer was charged for repairs. Both inner front axle seals were replaced because they were leaking.
03/27/00 transmission not shifting, skipping gears and whining.
Vehicle thumps and jerks when starting to go or getting ready to stop. When this happens consumer expierences loss of power, and gears get stuck. Consumer says transmission is starting to miss.
Fuel tank sending unit failed causing vehicle stalling.
Consumer had recall 00v10500 performed on 6-15-00 for airbag control module. There was no problem with airbag before the recall was performed. On sept.6 2000, consumer noticed airbag light came on intermittently, contacted dealer, and was told only available appointment was for sept 19,2000. On sept 18,2000, consumer was driving when suddenly vehicle experienced a loss of RPM's/speedometer, and airbag light stayed on.
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