The ess system activated when I stopped for a red light. When the light changed and I let go the break, the engine sputtered and the emergency break turned itself on, the wheel became very stiff and the breaks became very hard to press, cause me to roll forward when I tried stopping. The only way I could regain full control was to restart the car while I was in the middle of an intersection.
2017 Jeep Compass driver assistance complaints
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The vehicle was stopped at a stoplight on a city expressway and when the light turned green the stop/start system failed to restart the engine. It engaged the parking brake in the middle of the road and would not allow me to immediately restart the car. After several attempts to restart the car with traffic flying by me I was finally able to restart the car and disengage the parking break. This has happened multiple times and my dealership says they will not fix it because they are waiting to receive a stop start battery from mopar. It has been on backorder for a month and they dont have a date when it will be fixed. This keeps happening at least once a week and they do nothing to correct the problem. The problem is with the start/stop system made to conserve gas. The system should not leave you stranded in the middle of busy roads where someone can slam into the back of you.
I am still in shock and still quite shaken up on the morning of tues., 9/25/2018, when as usual got out of my home into my jeep to go to work a few minutes before 6 am. I carefully at the entrance and exit of my community, I wait for ongoing traffic to be far enough for me to drive towards the blvd. As my jeep started towards part of the boulevard all of sudden, the engine stopped as I did not press the bypass button so the jeep went into sleep mode, when I pressed the button, it read," put vehicle on parking mode to restart". My heart almost came out of my mouth because if there was traffic on my left I definitely would have been killed by the oncoming traffic that was heading towards me from the left, I placed the jeep in park, I then placed it on drive and headed to the divider of the intersection. In tears, I turned back home and left the jeep in the driveway. I called greenway immediately to report the incident. I have a copy of my conversation with the greenway dodge, chyrsler, jeep and ram service operator on tuesday, september 25, 2018,. A service appt was set for 9/29/18,at greenway. My husband and I were told by service tech that there was no bypass interception to remove the feature from the jeep shutting down the enginewhile in a drive mode. I do not feel safe driving this jeep & that I would not go through what I went through on that morning. I am alive to tell everyone of what happened to me and not got killed due to the special feature this jeep has to conserve gas. The engine just shuts down while in a drive mode. We were told that there was no bypass interception to remove the feature from the vehicle going into a pause mode when waiting for the light to change, or when there is traffic jeep completely stales when in drive mode. I am the owner of the vehicle and wish to surrender my jeep because I no longer feel safe driving it.
Total electrical failure on the highway, no stability control, HVAC, turn signals, hazzard lights, 4wd, every electrical item malfunctions, just the engine runs but all instrumentation and electrical accessory stop working in the middle of driving.
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