Stepped on my brake and the car did not stop until I re-applied my brake.
2006 Jeep Commander brakes complaints
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A number of times we have had a temporary but a complete brake failure in the same spot in the same road. This has only happened after a cold start, with me driving. My wife has witnessed the failure twice, so she now knows I'm not crazy. The road is good and up hill, approaching a stop sign. The only consequences so far are some grey hair. The intersection in question is a 55 MPH intersection. A number of times I have almost ran into traffic. Fortunately I approach the intersection slow enough to get off the road and stay out of traffic. The car has been back to the dealer 3 times. I am satisfied that the dealer has done everything in there power to fix the car. I have contacted the manufacture a couple of times about this problem. They could not care less.
My wife experienced brake failure and was forced to move into the left lane to avoid hitting the car in front of her. She was traveling at a low rate of speed, less than 10 MPH, as she approached a stop light. The vehicle was on a slight incline, and the anti-lock brakes pulsated, then, the brake went completely to the floorboard. She immediately took the vehicle to the dealership, and was told that other customers had complained of the same problem, and daimler chrysler had been contacted, but had done nothing to solve this obviously very dangerous safety problem.
I purchased the vehicle used in september 2006 from south bay mercedes in torrance california. It had less than 600 miles at the time of purchase. Following are dates a descriptions of a chronic problem regarding the commander. 9/27/06: mileage1835 description: customer states that when going up any kind of grade and the brakes are applied, pedal was hard and vehicle will not stop. Also a grinding noise when brakes were engaged also on flat ground. Intermittent. Solution: undiagnosed. Test drove, did not duplicate customer concern. Star report# 8501436 11/17/06: mileage4704 description: customer states that when going up a hill at low speed and braking pedal goes soft and there is a noise and brakes fail grinding noise. Solution: undiagnosed. Unable to duplicate concern at this time. If concern persists recommend to return. 1/19/07: mileage8343 description: customer states that when going up a hill and braking vehicle makes loud noise and brake pedal goes hard. Solution: replacement of master cylinder. Found wet gummy wet substance in the brake. Unable to duplicate concern at this time. 3/5/07 mileage10698 description: customer states that when going up hill and braking the brakes make noise and pedal goes hard. Solution: pending 3/6/07 reported problem directly to chrysler at 800‑992‑1997 @12:31 pm. Representative karen took historical information and gave reference number 16014820. Pending call back after she speaks with dealership.
It started out that the car was acting up, every warning light was illuminated, the speedometer and tachometer were going all over the place (like they were bouncing). We took it in to the dealer and they said we would have to bring the car back in when it was still doing this, because they plugged it in to the computer and couldn't find anything wrong. So to the dismay of my wife we took the car back even though they couldn't find anything wrong with it. About a week later my wife was pulling into the mall (on the 29th of dec.), it was extremely busy, so the mall had flagmen out directing traffic. She was on a downhill ramp waiting for the flagmen to let her go. As she was sitting there stopped the instrument panel started going nuts again. At that moment her foot, which was on the brake went straight to the floor, she had lost all brake pressure in the pedal. As she was pumping the brakes she had to honk and wave to the flagmen that she couldn't stop and to move. She had traveled about a 100 feet and finally came to a stop when the car hit the one that was further downhill from her. We call reuther jeep and told them what had happened and they said to tow the car to their shop and they would give us a rental car. They told me to contact chrysler and have them do an investigation. They did they investigation (without driving the car) plugged it into the computer, and later told me that there was no problem with the car, and we should contact our insurance company. No other explanation was given. I did some searching online and found numerous instances where this seems to be a problem and falls in line with the recall that chrysler had recently done on the 64000+ cars. I don't want this car back, I don't feel it is safe and I fear for my wife and kids that are always in this car. We leased the vehicle I don't see why they should be able to make this right. I just want a safe vehicle for my wife and kids.
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