While taveling on highway applied brakes and vehicle took off with excessive speed into traffic. Dealership was aware of problem.
1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee acceleration complaints
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After putting vehicle in park vehicle took off/ moved forward,causing an accident, and resulting in major injuries.
After shifting gear into park and turning off ignition key vehicle would suddenly start to accelerate. Dealer contacted. Feel free to provide any further information.
While driving and upon parking vehicle on its own rolled backward, causing an accident. There were no injuries. Contacted dealer. Problem has yet to be resolved. Consumer has recieved notice from manufacture regarding recall 02 v 053 000. Please provide any further information.
Both front motor mounts were broken. The engine was revving as the engine was lifting and settling. Of the 4 jeep grand cherokees that I am aware of, 3 of them had the same problem (a '94, 95, 98). The one that didn't was a 19'93. Since the transmission connects to the motor, I thought that this may be contributing to recall campaign #02v053000, involving vehicles shifting into reverse without warning.
Customer states that vehicle jumped out of park into reverse with engine running, struck another car and bent left front door
While slowly backing up with trailer attached vehicle suddenly accelerated. Trailer jack knifed and crashed into metal building. Consumer had brakes applied. Then, shifted to drive. Vehicle accelerated to 35-40 MPH ,and headed towards a lake. Consumer shut off engine to stop vehicle. Damage to vehicle was $ 5000.00, damage to building unknown. No injuries. *ak
Driving on the freeway, the gear suddenly jumped to reverse from drive, the RPM accelerated to 5500 and teh gas dropped. There was a noise like metal was scratching against another metal. And the brakes were also not functioning properly.
Pe 01 021/ inadvertent rollaway: on three occasions vehicle had jumped out of park into reverse while parked, first, it backed up on a concrete curb. Secondly, driver was still in vehicle, and thirdly backed into another vehicle and hit a fence. Dealer was notified, and was unwilling to assist in this matter. *ak consumer will not drive vehicle because of the faulty interlock system, chrysler will not assist consumer.
Vehicle when in park will put itself into reverse and accelerate .
Transmission would slip out of gear and rpms would rise. This would cause vehicle to jerk forward while driving. Problem only happens when gears are between 2nd & 3rd, and traveling between 25 and 45mph.
Vehicle was parked. Consumer was behind vehicle checking on garage door closure when vehicle started moving backwards. Consumer was nearly ran over before getting out of way. Vehicle's rear end hit a tree in the back yard. Owner felt jerking, and revving was part of problem with vehicle going into reverse. Took vehicle to dealership to check. Was informed nothing wrong after placing on diagnostic machine.*ak
Patricia nadel was driving alone at the time of the incident. Our neighbors have a gate on our 1/4 mile long driveway. We have to open it to proceed through. Patty put the jeep in "park" and then got out to open the gate. When she reached the gate, all of a sudden the jeep lurched into "reverse" and sped backwards approximately 200 feet until it hit the neighbor's flatbed trailer and came to rest. A 6 inch deep gauge from the corner of the trailer dug into the rear door of the jeep, along the driver's side, through the back driver's side door and also through the driver's door. Thus causing $6,000 worth of damage . This happened to her once before, a few months back, when she was getting out of the car, and at that time she was able to jump back in and stop the car. At that time she thought she had perhaps not put the gear shift all the way in park, so forever after that first incident, when stopping, she has first put it in park, and then jiggled it slightly to make sure it was firmly in park. That is what she did at this present incident.
The air bag readiness indicator comes on when the vehicle is started. I took the vehicle into to dealer to have it investigated. They told me that it was the clockspring assembly. The indicator light will go off usually after driving for 30-45 minutes. I tested the cruise and horn when the indicator lamp is on. Both work whenever I checked.
Vehicle would accelerate on its own after shifting into gear. Engine would rev up when first starting up, and would remain until vehicle was shut down. Vehicle was very hard to stop due to brakes not working properly.
Vehicle experiences similar affects as mentioned in recall # 98v023000/sudden idle speed increases automatically.
Irregular acceleration causes vehicle to stall or move very slowly. Yh
The door locks inside the door fell apart.
At 67mph(65-70) jeep vibrates - not corrected by tires, drive shaft, rear differential, or 2 transfer cases. Dealer doesn't know how to fix. Also cruise control not working properly. Tach jumps while cruising even on flat land.
Sudden acceleration,unable to stop using brakes had to force car into park, resulting in vehicle to hit building and causing considerable damage to vehicle and building. One injury resulted.
Cruise control on & off switch malfunctioned when in use. Has happened several times. Had taken vehicle to dealer to check & was informed by the manufacturer that the vehicle was built that way & there was nothing wrong with the cruise control. Went to another dealership & was informed of the samething. All the jeeps were built like that.
Transmission gears make whining noise/gears are difficult to shift, also gears dropped into reverse, causing vehicle to move backwards.
Leased company vehicle. While pulling into driveway applied brakes and vehicle accellerated and went through a concrete block wall and window. Wet pavement, 5mph. Neither air bag deployed when incident occurred. Dealer aware of the problem with $6, 900. 00 damage and investigation pending. Provide further information.
Vehicle suddenly accelerated in reverse and would not stop even when brake was applied with considerable force. Accelerated backwards across a street and into a parked car.
Vehicle was in park position and was left idling. Consumer then put vehicle in drive, vehicle suddenly took off. Tried to step on brakes, but brakes were inoperative,causing consumer to go through a wall. Consumer suffered bruises.
Gas pedal being too close to brake pedal, causing people to step on gas pedal when they thought they were applying the brake pedal.
Driver was putting the truck into reverse, and all of a sudden applied the gas pedal just a little and the truck took off backwards, hitting a tree. The truck went about 150-175 feet before hitting the tree. The truck just picked up speed all at once.
Consumer states that while the vehicle was in park and idling, she exited the vehicle and walked approximately 20 feetthen heard movement behind her. She saw the vehicle rolling backwards and ran after it in an attempt to bring it to a stop. Driver was able to open drivers side door but was unable to enter and stop the vehicle. Driver was knocked to the ground suffering head injuries as well as an injured foot when the vehicle ran over her foot. Vehicle impacted a school building that stopped it from moving any further. The dealership examined the vehicle and determined that nothing was defective.
Sudden acceleration, resulting in a vehicle collision.
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