As a mother of three children, the youngest only being two years old, I do not feel safe driving my 2016 jeep compass. Every single time I drive the vehicle the motor randomly stalls out while driving several different times. My car is very well maintained and driven easily and even with the gas pedal under light load it stalls out leaving me immobile or the vehicle misfiring and jerking forward violently struggling to drive which puts my children and I in dangerous or potentially deadly situations. This happens all the time. This is due to a bad crankshaft position sensor and or bad wiring from the factory. When I type my VIN number into the federal safety agency website for recalls it says my vehicle has no active recalls. There are several other jeep compass's of the same year and model with this exact issue under recall and my vehicle needs to be included in that recall as well. My car is only two years old it should be a relatively safe and reliable vehicle not something I worked so hard to buy and an affraid to drive.
2016 Jeep Compass transmission complaints
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While at a complete stop, either at light or in traffic, my RPM gauge needle would drop to 0 rpms, however my battery is still active. I will then have to cycle key to turn vehicle back on. This also happened as vehicle was moving/approaching intersection with traffic light. As I coasted to intersection my rpms again went to zero. I then reluctantly was able to turn steering wheel (although lost power steering) to the right and continued to coast onto shoulder of road. Put car into park, cycled key and car turned on but took a several seconds for engine to turn over. Took vehicle into chrysler dealership 3x for this issue and they couldn't find problem and couldn't duplicate it while driving it for a few days.
My mechanic believe's I have a sensor issue going on with my transmission. It seems to have the same issues as other certain model years as mine. Every drive I take, the transmission slips. He has ruled out everything else, and one or two of the sensors are pointing to my transmission issues. This problem has almost caused me an accident multiple different times. At this point I don't feel comfortable driving it.
After an uneventful drive to a store, when I restarted the vehicle and attempted to pull out of the parking lot into moving traffic, the vehicle accelerated very sluggishly, like it was stuck in top gear or the engine wasn't able to be rev'ed up. Pushing accelerator to floor caused engine to rev up to approximately 3500 RPM only, and rate of acceleration did not improve. Tried shifting into neutral and back into drive. This did not restore the expected acceleration behavior. Tried to put transmission into manual shift mode by moving gear shift left or right, but gear indicator in instrument cluster showed that transmission did not switch into manual shift mode; it stayed in full-automatic mode. Pulled over and turned engine off, then restarted engine. Expected acceleration behavior restored after restarting engine.
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