While driving the tachometer and the digital and analog speedometers went to zero. And the d for drive was flashing in the dash as well as at the shifter along with the parking brake light flashing also.when I pulled over and put it in park it shut itself off and would not immediately restart. This is a few months after taking to the dealer for the transmission not shifting and codes flashing. I have attached a photo taken at about 20 MPH of the tachometer and speedometers
2018 Jeep Compass transmission complaints
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The car stopped in the middle of freeway, I was lucky no one was behind me, so far three times it happened. Every time when it happened I was driving the car. The way it happens first my speed will reduced even though I was pushing the gas, and suddenly stops.
When my vehicle hits 47 MPH it starts making a very loud humming noise coming from the engine area. The noise continues to be persistent until I slow down to less than 30 MPH. I have taken it to dealership but jeep doesn't know how to fix it. They say they have been working on a software update since early 2018. I'm not sure if it's damaging my vehicle but it is extremely loud.
On 12/12/2019 at approximately 8:30pm I was driving eastbound I-80 in utah traveling about 65mph. At mile marker 130 at the entrance to parleys canyon as I tried to accelerate my vehicle stalled, loosing power. I was able to move to the shoulder of the road but nearly rearended and several semi's needed to do quick manuevers to avoid colliding with me. There were no warnings and it was sudden power loss not previously experienced. The vehicle restarted buy I experience a similar lack of power/acceleration. I do not feel this is safe to drive and I have towed it to a jeep dealer.
I purchased my jeep compass new. Since I have had it, I have taken my 2018 jeep compass in for repair due to loss of oil several times. The loss of oil was first noticed before the first 2,000 miles on the car because of a ticking noise coming from the engine. This car has even stopped on me on while traveling out of town and the engine light comes on along with other lights. In this particular instance it did start back up eventually. When it did, the engine light stayed on the whole time. Recently, (11/16/19), while driving the whole car shuts down in the middle of the street and the emergency brakes lock up. The car will not budge. In this instance the car had to be towed to the dealership. There have been so many issues with this car that I do not feel safe driving it. These issues seem to be completely random and without warning.
Purchased at the dealership @ 5k..engine stalled @ 18k miles as I was backing out of my driveway.. Checked and there was no oil on stick.. Had to buy oil twice just to take my jeep to be serviced and have an 'oil consumption test' performed multiple times, was told everything was fine.. 11k miles later..'service engine,' 'service transmission,' flashes on dash. No oil on stick within 400 miles of needing an oil change.. Engine won't turnover/start. Stranded with <30k miles & haven't had the vehicle a year.
On november 14, 2019, my wife drove our 2018 jeep compass on a local street, within minutes, the car began slowing down in the middle of the road, came to a complete stop, and then shut off. Before the car shut off, the emergency brake light came on. On the first attempt, the car did not turn back on. On the second attempt, the car turned back on.
While driving this vehicle on the freeway the "service shifter" message came up on dash. All lights on the shifter came red. Car has only 15,199 miles on it.
Car has shut off while driving about 12 times the past 2 years. I noticed started after 6k. My oil is perfectly fine and I keep up with all the oil changes especially since it is a lease and is free with who I lease it through, its very dangerous and I have 4 children!!!!! Also sounds a hard knocking sounds while accelerating as it shifts into another gear and jerking of the entire car forward when this happens I had to immediately slam on my brakes as it almost caused huge accident and not to mention shakes me and my children up every time this happens. Why aren't there any recalls on this if there are soooo many complaints?*dt consumer stated I have to take it back in another 1k so I will provide follow up. He said I'm burning a little more than normal so that's why the next 1k I have to go back this is the other issue they are saying is normal. 27766 5:18 pm jerk feeling as changing gears 11/6/19 611 rd 27792 9:36 pm jerk feeling 11/6/19 hulmeville rd 27807 11:19 pm 11/6 really bad thump/jerk 611 ad as I was passing a vehicle between lanes 11/7 8:45 am started it with the remote starter got in vehicle pushed button car wouldn't start sat in idle for 3 min had to keep pushing to start. 11/18 2:28 pm 28329 turning onto main road switching lanes thumb/knocking /jerking 10 MPH county line rd 11/19 9:07 am 28352 gibraltrar rd thump/jerking driving straight as I accelerate 11/19 6:03 pm 28371 think while going up on linekiln pk 11/21 6:25 28440 out of parking lot 3 MPH jerking thumping as changing gears 11/30 9:47 28843 40 MPH jerking thump of car hill town pike I'm having major issues with this car you can see this is only one month.
I have been to papas now 5 times for the same two problems my start stop keeps stalling when trying to turn on 3 times now and has had the check start stop system light come on 3 times now. Also my part of my powertrain was broken and my strut broke.
Tl* the contact owns a 2018 jeep compass. When the vehicle was started, the check engine indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to eastchester chrysler jeep dodge ram (718‑547‑5500, located at 4007 boston rd, bronx, ny 10466) where it was diagnosed that the transmission needed to be repaired. A loaner vehicle was not provided. The contact was informed to get a rental vehicle for two days and the dealer would reimburse him. The dealer was not contacted. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and did not assist. Additionally, while the contact's daughter was at a stop light, the vehicle was rear ended by another vehicle. The air bags did not deploy. The contact's wife was seated in the front passenger seat and struck her head on the dashboard. The seat belt did not restrain her properly and she sustained a concussion. The driver sustained a back injury. The driver and passenger were taken to the emergency center for medical attention. A police report was filed. The vehicle was damaged, but was not towed. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and sent someone to investigate. The investigator stated that the seat belt performed as expected. The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 19,000.
While driving my car and making a turn on a busy intersection in chicago my car completely shut off. It appears to be on, but I cannot accelerate. I turn the car off, there's a stall before my car completely restarts. No lights have come on at all. When the car finally comes back on, the emergency brake is activated and it takes some time to get it to turn off. I am not due for an oil change for at least another 2k miles.
When driving, the vehicle will suddenly stop, check engine, check transmission, service engine soon all light up and the car will not restart. The vehicle has had an oil and filter change at 5,000 miles. The error codes are: p3506 and p2af5: cylinder misfire fault detected, throttle position sensor, sensor reference volatage circuit low, crankshaft position sensor, engine oil pressure sensor, accelerator pedal position sensor circuit 1 low. The vehicle is 16 months old and has 7,000 miles. This has happened at least 7 times, the last 3 yesterday. All city driving, once in the driveway. Sometimes vehicle won't turn off, but you cannot move forward. If you wait about 5-10 minutes, all returns to normal until the next event. Maybe in a week, maybe in 5 minutes.
Tl* the contact owns a 2018 jeep compass. While driving 35 MPH, the vehicle shut off without warning and the emergency brake engaged independently. On another occasion, while the contact's wife was driving highway speeds, the failure recurred and the low oil pressure warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to south county chrysler dodge jeep ram (455 automall dr, gilroy, ca 95020, 408‑842‑8244) where it was determined that this was a normal occurrence. The contact was advised to check the oil frequently. The failure persisted and the same dealer provided the contact's wife the same information again. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and referred the contact to the federal safety agency. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was 7,708.
My car has stalled out several times on the interstate and in busy in town traffic all due to low oil pressure. I have taken my car in several times to have the oil topped off because my dipstick is showing no oil. This happens about every 500 miles. This car is a death trap!
Engine eats oil way to much around 709 miles it will start to roughly idle and when checking the oil levels it's 2 quarts low. I can also be driving and the vehicle will jerk when trying to get up to speed thrusting me forward like it's having trouble.
My brake engaged yesterday while traveling on a city street. I was stopped at a light. I pushed the gas to make my vehicle accelerate when the light turned green. My vehicle would not move. The brake was engaged. After confirming nothing had hit the brake button. I pushed the brake release. The vehicle still would not go forward. There were images on the screen that include an a!, engine symbol, etc. I pushed the button to restart the car. It would not start. The brake was engaged again. This is the third time this has happened to my vehicle. It is very dangerous when this happens on a major street during peak hours of traffic. During one of the times my vehicle responded like this. The oil light was on. I went to the closest facility to get my vehicle checked. They said there was no oil in my vehicle on april 17, 2019. I had just had my oil changed.
The jeep has an issue....when I back into my drive way in reverse the car will sometimes roll forward....really unsure what this is about but believe it should be checked out. Also, the jeep sometimes jerk when I take off and even swerve over to the lane left of me when I'm driving in the freeway. I have mentioned these things to the dealership but nothing back yet. I love the vehicle but there's definitely some issues that need to be resolved.
My vehicles transmission, beginning at 30,000 miles, started to lock up. The service transmission and service engine lights both activated. This only occurred while the vehicle was parked and idled. I had to press gas turn vehicle off for a couple of minutes and restart to reset the transmission icon. The same lock up started to happen while driving after I passed the 36,000 miles mark. I was on the highway using cruise control and the vehicle locked up and started to slow down. I could not accelerate so I had to put my hazards and pull over. This happens very often now. Autozone states the code pops up with u1428. I then start to have start up issues at 50,000 miles. The start/stop system is unavailable and the light reflect 'a!' has been activare since. This has caused my vehicle to get really hot. Constant oil burning. And gas burning. When autozone check code it popped up p1dd2 (with no description of what the code was caused by). The vehicle electrical is not stable. In multiple instances my vehicle lights and power have gone in and out while idle and driving. It slows down my vehicle suddenly. I have heard a lot about transmission and engine issues with the newer jeeps but I didn't think this would happen to me. I don't think my vehicle is safe and would like a more professional input since the dealership I bought the vehicle from is never available to assist.
While stopped at a stop light auto start/stop turned the car off as normal. A few moments later the brake light illuminated on the dash and the electronic emergency brake turned on. I released my foot from the brake to see if the car would start back up it would not. The dash read out in park and start. I attempted however car would not start. The emergency brake would not turn off either. I had to call road side assistance for a tow. Vehicle only has 11,400 miles. The car is at the dealership I am waiting on their investigation.
While driving down road at about 55 MPH. I experienced a jerking motion. Felt like coming from the back wheel area.
I was stopped for a red light at a busy multi lane intersection. When light turned green I accelerated and nothing happened. I turned vehicle off then on by stop/start button several times until vehicle engaged. Very scary. It just basically stalled. Several other things were affected such as instrument cluster indications that were never on before and will not turn off when I go on/off options for those displays. Running lights also suddenly will not work. Upsetting to say the least. Very dangerous. I am not sure but think the start/start feature may be involved as I had it on. It was around 90 degrees outside temp. Vehicle has about 11,000 miles on it.
Brakes are bad, have been since we got it. They lock up when u hit the brakes. Something was wrong with it when I drove it on the lot. Something rattleing in the front end. They stopped the rattle but brakes are a huge issue. No matter how light you tap them they lock up. When they are wet it is undrivable. Also engine revs up for no reason and the engine kill thing does not work right. Its not instantaneous. Lots of lag before you can move.. We have been back to the dealer right after we bought it to try to trade it for another one but no luck. I should have walked away when it was making the noise when I moved it on the lot. Specially after the way we were treated by the guy who did the paperwork when we declined the extra warranty. If he hadnt been a vet I wouldve walked away. The dealer has records of repairs they tried to make.the brakes have been bad since we bought it and the rest has been going on for a coulpa months now.
This happened three times over the past two weeks. I have been driving my car in heavy traffic and car will throw itself in emergency brake mode and engine will turn off. Loss of steering control is gone as well. Have been extremely lucky to not get in an accident. Dropped car off to dealer who blamed it on "low oil." due to "low oil" levels however car is only 7 months old and just 4k miles. He recommended I change the oil every 750 miles! 750! A standard car is every 5,000 miles. The fact that my oil change could be the determining factor between my engine turning off mid drive and getting in an accident is absurd. While researching there are hundreds of similar cases with the same car. People have gotten in accidents due to the car stalling on highways and intersections. Not safe to drive. Do not recommend. Legitimately scared to drive. Should not be allowed on the road!
Computer message in the car information screen stated shifter service as I was turning on the car. Currently there hasn't been a recall on this item but according to the research there needs to be on set up. Everytime I attempt to accelerate there is a delay also upon braking just a tip jerks the whole vehicle.
Bought brand new. With 4700 miles put on it, it had lost oil and stalled several times. My wife was driving. We took it straight to the dealership where we bought it. Come to find out, it burns oil at an accelerated rate. Many vehicles with this motor, 2.4l multiair, are having this problem. Engines are having to be replaced, when they are still new. When running low on oil, the vehicle suddenly shuts down with no warning, lights, indicating its out of oil and that could be very dangerous. If on a highway or wherever there is heavy traffic. Definitely see a bad accident happening. A new car should not be burning oil at an excessive rate. Please look into this.jeep/fca seem like nothing is being done about this. I called jeep right before writing this, and the customer service rep hasn't heard about it. The dealership where I got it has replaced 15 of these motors already. Thankyou
My 2018 jeep compass 4wd makes grumble/drone" sound at 30 MPH and above, sounds like it's from the transmission or differential.
I have had two instances within a 2 months of each other where my new jeep compass has broken down and needed to be towed to the dealership. Back in february, I was driving about 65 MPH on the highway and the check engine light came on, which I thought was strange. I came up to a stop sign and tried to accelerate again, and I crawled through the intersection with no power, rpms shooting through the roof, and my whole vehicle shaking violently. The harder I pressed on the gas, the slower it went. There was oncoing trafic at this time, so im glad no accident occured. The dealership said that I needed two software updates, for my transmission and one other one, and it fixed the problem. Fast forward to april 27, 2019, im driving 50 MPH and the service engine light comes on again. I come to a stop sign again, and try to accelerate, only for the same thing to happen as last time. I made it home and had my car towed to the dealership again. The said that they did not see a check engine light on and were not able to find that one had ever been on when they checked the computer in the vehicle. This is alarming because it was in fact on, and my whole vehicle was basically disabled and shaking violently. They said since they couldnt find anything that there was nothing they could do to fix the problem unless they can recreate it. There is clearly something majorly wrong with this cars computer system if it randomly does this with no warning, and it is dangerous. It doesnt even work enough to log the history of engine lights that are triggered. I dont feel safe driving it. It is under a year old and only had 9500 miles on it when this happend the first time, now it has 13000 miles on it and is still new. This is a major issue when the service shop I bought it from cant even figure out what is wrong.
While accelerating onto a highway, my vehicle suddenly shut off. I immediately put hazards on, tried to pull to the side, stopped and tried turning the car back on, after 2 attempts it turned back on but I was scared the entire hour long ride home so drove in the slow lane so that I could pull right off the highway if it happened again. I took the vehicle for service and they said it was the hood latch sensor. They replaced it and it worked fine for a month or so then again this happened while driving down the road about 40 MPH, car suddenly shut off. Again another scary experience. Took the car back and they said the actual hood latch needed to be replaced. Pulled out of service center and it happened again, pulled back in to service center and a day later they called and said hood needed realignment. Worked again for a few months then today, again driving down the road, oil pressure low warning flashed on my dash then went off, the check engine light flashed on then yet another warning that read switch to p then desired gear. Car then lost almost all power but luckily had just enough power to get me to a side road where I barely made it onto the road before it shut off. I tried turning it back on and after 2 tries it powered on but when I put into drive and hit the gas, it would not move. It was like it would not engage in gear. This is an extreme safety hazard as this vehicle suddenly stop without warning while driving.
The vehicle was in motion on highway 180. The vehicles service engine light, transmission light, electronic parking brake, and service hill holder turned on. I stopped the vehicle in the sholder. I checked the transmission and engine oil and both were good. I tried putting the vehicle on drive and the electronic parking light came on and stopped the vehicle from going on drive. The light stayed on for the electronic braking service. I was able to take it off the brake still with the service lights on. I was going to shift it into drive when it made a strong popping and screeching sound on the transmission when placed on reverse. I moved it to drive and it did the samething. I tried giving it gas and the d for drive would just blink and the vehicle would not move. I waited 30 minutes and tried moving it but nothing happened. I switched the gear from parking to drive hearing the popping sound as I shifted from the p r n d. I was able to drive it for 10-15 minutes and the transmission started heating up from 180f to 192f. While leaving the vehicle stopped for a while the transmission temp did cool off but I will have it serviced since I am still stopped at the highway with my family while writing this.
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