A year and a half ago I was on my way back home from a half an hour drive from town when I decided to stop at my parents house to get a drink. I wasn't inside for less then ten minutes, when I went to leave my jeep would not start at all. After a half hour later looking everything over I did notice the fuel pump fuse was melted and blown. I was asked bye american chevrolet dealership if I had something plugged into my cigarette lighter that could of blown it. I've been a mechanic for 11 years now and I've never known to see the fuel pump fuse ran to other components meaning interior outlets. Now a half year later I have been having problems starting my jeep at times and having no power to the motor at all. I want to get rid of this jeep. Now I had a recall on the neutral safety switch and just today I get another recall for the ignition switch. I keep having axel popping sounds out of the front passenger side and I'm fed up with this jeep.
2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee engine complaints
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While driving dashboard lights will all come on similar to what happens when you start the car. Other electronic components (radio, odometer) stop but engine continues to run. Can steer and brake but difficult. No error messages received. This has continued to happen with no warning over the past 9 months. Multiple mechanics have looked at the car but cannot identify a problem. It seems that many people have complained about similar problems.
I lose all lights, instruments, gauges on the dashboard. Car still runs but I have no odometer, lights, air conditioning. I usually pull off the road and turn off the engine. Once I restart it, it usually doesn't happen for awhile. The check engine light would come on for a day or two and then clear out. I've had it checked before and the codes come up as "communication error" but no one has been able to identify the exact error. Has occurred intermittently since 2011 but has now reached the stage where the car won't start.
While in a line of cars approaching a stop sign I reached my turn at the sign. When I stopped the engine just died and all electrical components worked. After shifting into park and turning the key the engine started again. As with others I do not have anything attached to my key and also my knees are not able to hit the key. The road leading to the stop sign is somewhat rough and it is possible I hit the key with my hand.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. While driving 35 MPH, the vehicle stalled and the esp, ABS, check engine, and traction control indicators illuminated on the instrument panel intermittently. The failure occurred on three different occasions. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified. The failure mileage was 54,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that while driving approximate 78 MPH, the engine stalled without warning. The contact also stated that while attempting to coast over to the emergency lane, the brakes hesitated when depressed. The vehicle was shifted into park and vehicle was restarted. The failure recurred on multiple occasions. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 77,448.
I bought the jeep in feb. 2013 and shortly thereafter, while driving on the interstate, the car just shut itself off and everything went dead. This has happened about 2 dozen times since, sometimes going fast and sometimes going slow or pulling into an intersection. There doesn't seem to be a factor that causes it to happen and the mechanic cannot find anything wrong but it is very dangerous.
On at least 5 separate occasions since about 2009, my 2006 jeep grand cherokee has suddenly and lost power and cut off while driving at approximately 20-40 miles per hour. There is no reason that I can confirm causes this and I'm not able to duplicate the defect. I've reported it to pearson (dealer) and they indicated they can't help with an issue that can't be demonstrated or duplicated. This is extremely dangerous to lose all power, even at lower speeds. This issue should be thoroughly investigated to find the root cause. I can confirm that it definitely occurs. In addition, it's reported that starting a jeep grand cherokee may result in sudden, uncontrolled acceleration or movement forward, even when in park. Car pool auto wash pushes every jeep product out of the wash tunnel by hand to avoid starting the vehicle for this reason they explained. While sudden acceleration has never occurred to me, there appears to be enough evidence this may warrant further investigation.
While turning right into a parking lot at low speed, my knee brushed the key chain/key and ignition turned off while still in drive. Has happened once more in the last month in a similar circumstance, both luckily at low speed in empty parking lots. Had to shift to park and restart engine to regain power/control.
I have seen several reports of this so figured I would send a copy of this to you as well engine developed a strong miss and lack of power due to running on 7 cylinders. Dealer determined that there were burnt valves plus significant sludging of the oil passages. Dealer also suspected a crack in the head or block, allowing contamination of oil and coolant. Considering the vehicle has run fine and been maintained properly over the last 14 months there is a chance the cracking may have been a defect that took until now to cause enough damage to become a problem.
Vehicle stalls when driving at slow speeds engine shuts off completely, dealerships have mo fix for this issue.
Car has on 2 separate occasions jumped from drive into neutral. Contacted chrysler as they have a recall on jeep grand cherokees for this issue. However, they say that this vehicle wasn't included in recall as it was not manufactured at the same plant where the other vehicles were that mandated the recall.
My pregnant wife has had this issue before with the car and we took it to the dealership without anyone being able to fix it. While driving between 15-60 MPH the car completely shuts down. No power steering, brakes, or electrical. You have to throw it in neutral and start it back up. This has to be an electrical issue as other quirky things have been happening as well such as the headlights will flicker on and off and the volume and stations selectors on the steerwheel often do not work properly. This is an issue that jeep needs to identify and fix. Very scary to be going 50-60 MPH and lose control of your car going down the highway. Over the past two days this has happened three times. I have done research online as well and there are plenty of other jeep owners that have this same issue. Jeep needs to have a recall for this issue. I am shocked that this has not happened yet.
Vehicle stalls when coming to a stop occasionally. It is an automatic. Put in park starts right up. 4.7 engine.
My 2006 jeep grand cherokee lardeo has all the same issues as listed by every other jeep owner. The engine randomly shuts off while driving down the road, the dash board and headlights flicker on and off constantly. Sometimes we start sometimes we dont. When pulling out into traffic , maybe it will go, maybe it wont. I have lost my brakes on several occasions as well. Now the jeep sits in my driveway as it wont start at all, and of coarse nobody can tell me what is wrong with it as usual ! Nothing like paying for a dead horse ! I have contacted the chrysler corporation only to be told these are not "safety" issues. Good lord what does it take to get a decent vehicle that is safe and reliable ? I guess that would be not buying anything chrysler, dodge, jeep in the future is the route I will take ! I only hope when one of these ticking bombs fail, my family and friends arent on the road that day !
Like others vehicle has stalled while at low speeds. At random times, took to my mechanic and he never could duplicate the problem. Until, I took it there for an electrical problem and to check out the steering. While he was test driving the car, it stalled on him and still could never find the problem, my lights flicker on the inside, dash over head light all inside lights, at night when I have my lights on, till I turn them very low and still flickers but can't notice it as much, inside lights don't turn on at all when I try to switch them on as well. The air bag light has stayed and been on for a while, my mechanic ran a test on that as air bag is fine but light stays on. I know there where recalls so I called chrysler and they said my car does not qualify under any of the recalls. Now my ABS and esp/bas, traction control light are on. At first they came on while I was driving when went to slow down my breaks rattled, the lights came on then went off. Now they have been on and won't turn off. And my cruise control stopped working as well same time. There seems to be nothing that comes up while running test and stuff. My car has 115756 miles on it and these problems keep happening. Also when I start it the car ideals rough and when I'm stopped at a light tried and replaced parts and still does it. I love my jeep and would like to have these problems found out and fix I'm almost done paying it off and want to keep it but it scares me that it's could stall any moment randomly.
Purchased the 2006 jeep grand cherokee limited (4.7l) new from dealership. It stalls unexpectedly. Usually at low speeds. Most of the time while turning. It does it probably once every two or three months, which makes it next to impossible to duplicate at the dealership. In addition, no codes are ever tripped, leaving no proof of an existing problem. We have taken it to the dealership on three separate occasions over the years while it was still under warranty, however, the dealerships maintained that if they could not duplicate the problem, they could not fix the problem, leaving it unresolved. The jeep now has over 100k on it (out of warranty) and it continues to stall. What I find odd, is that this particular problem was happening to thousands of people with jeeps like mine over the years, but on the three separate occasions we took it into the dealership, they acted like they had never heard of the problem. How is this possible?
I purchased this car in 8/2012 for my daughter to get to college. It is a 900 mile trip and would be used for local campus driving until her return in 4/2013. We bought the car with the hope of getting 3 years use out of it. On her initial trip down route 95 so. I received a call at 1 am from her in sc telling me the car shut down at 70 MPH. The wheel locked up and she lost control of the car and fortunately with the help of her passenger forced the wheel to maneuver to the shoulder. Thank god a tractor trailed was not behind her! I told her to wait and try to start the car. It started a half hour later. This episode continued until she arrived at school the next day. A 15 hour trip took 21 hours. She was frightened to death. We contacted the local chrysler dealer and they told us it was the valve body of the transmission which we replaced ($2100). As it turns out on the return trip the car transmission was over heating and the shutting down scenario continued. We brought it to a local chrysler dealer here in nj and they told us there was problem in the engine and that they would have to take it apart in order to find out what the problem was. I stopped right there. I found out through my local mechanic of 20 years that he read the bulletin on the engine problems from chrysler. It said the valves were not shutting down all the way thus creating carbon in the heads and stalling the engines. I need action from chrysler and it seems the dealerships don't care about safety. This is a major safety issue. We can't use the car that we paid $10,000 (plus $2100) for and now I have to get my daughter back to college and don't have a safe vehicle. How do I get chrysler to fix the problem? I can be contacted at my information below. [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
The check engine light would come on and go off..I was driving around 60 MPH the car shifted into neutral and lost power...I was able to steer to the side of the road but I was in three lanes wide of traffic on the highway and had I not been in the lane closed to the side of the road I could have been badly injured. Within the time frame of three weeks it happened 4 times...all when I was driving highway speeds except once the car shifted into neutral on its own and powered down when I was at a stop sign in town. The check engine lights comes and goes so fast by the time I can get to a repair shop and have it scanned its usually off. I was able to scan it once and it read a code for "transmission control module"...the car runs great but I don't understand why it just powers down. How many people have to get injured from this failure before someone fixes it! This is absurd!
Pulling away from stop sign my vehicle lost power (stalled out). The lights for park, reverse, neutral, and drive all came on at one time. Lost power for about 15 seconds then car starting moving again. This has happened a few times not just the one date listed here. This was the only time I was actually pulling out into traffic. Could have caused a major wreck. Sometimes it does it while driving down road and I have to pull over to turn car off. When I start it back again it runs fine for a while. Ever since this has been happening my airbag light and engine light have been coming on and off all the time. About a year ago, I had to have a speed sensor changed on the transmission cause the car would not shift through gears cost me around $800 because it had to be taken to a transmission service center. Are these problems all related? Bought this car from a private seller (one owner) well taken care of. All maintenance was up to date when I purchased the car about 1 1\2 years ago. Is there any recalls on any of the problems I listed here?
While driving 55mph suddenly every dashboard warnings light, ignition, radio,headlights, etc. Turns on and off. Engine stalls for a couple of seconds each time this occurs. The same thing happened on a number of occasions. Dealer says they never heard of this problem and could not duplicate this problem when the car was in the shop. The car was at the dealer's shop on two occasions. The first time they said they couldn't find the problem and the second time they did something to the computer. The car is doing the same thing and is going back to the dealer on 2/18/13.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that while driving 70 MPH, the vehicle stalled without warning. The engine was still idling when all of the warning and level gauges dropped to zero as several warning lights started to illuminate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who performed a diagnostic test but was unable to diagnose the failure. The failure recurred intermittently. The manufacturer was not notified of the issue. The VIN was unavailable. The failure mileage was 80,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that while driving 55 MPH, the vehicle stalled without warnings. Also, the contact mentioned that the driver's side door handle became fractured and all of the remaining door handles were cracked. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where the technician diagnosed that the door panel needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was not available. The failure and the current mileage was 69,000.
The grand cherokee stalled at a light on a hill. Restarted it and but it back in drive but vehicle continued to roll back almost rolling into car behind. Stalled 4 more times but in parking lots and non busy roads. Took it back to dealer where they updated software on computer and said it was fixed. Then stalled on a busy highway and was almost rear ended because vehicle stalled and wouldn't go into gear. Then parked it in parking lot and it stalled in park.
I purchased vehicle 2 weeks ago, november 115, 2012. Over a period of several days, all lights on . Instrument cluster light-up, gauges go crazy, loose power and ability to operate vehicle. Very dangerous situation since I was on highway at highway speeds. Also, headlights begin to flicker off-on at a high rate causing a dangerous situation. I have researched online and found numerous similar complaints for jeep. I went to my local jeep dealer today...no help. Called jeep hotline, 800‑992‑1997, no help, claim they havent had a problem. This is a safety issue and jeep should stand behind their product.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that while driving approximately 70 MPH the vehicle suddenly stalled. The failure occurred eight different times at different speeds. The vehicle was towed to the dealer for diagnostic testing. The technician stated the crank shaft sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. While driving approximately 35 MPH, all of the warning lights on the instrument panel illuminated. The RPM reading decreased and the vehicle decelerated independently. The contact stopped the vehicle on the shoulder of the road and shut the engine off. After restarting the vehicle, the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing but was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 67,000. The VIN was not available.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 jeep grand cherokee. The contact stated that while driving 50 MPH the vehicle stalled without warning. The contact took the vehicle to a dealer. The contact did not allow the dealer to perform a diagnostic test. The contact did not know why the vehicle was stalling. The failure mileage was 73,808.
While at highway speed, on the highway, vehicle stalled, lost power steering, acceleration ability, braking and lights. Had to coast to the side of the road while narrowly avoiding other motorists at highway speed. This has occurred on several different occasions at speeds anywhere from 5-60 MPH. Very dangerous and frightening. This has been reported by thousands of other jeep owners and is eventually going to get people killed.
While entering on ramp for highway jeep shuts off... No more control since no power. Hit the guard rail. This stalling happen on many occasions while driving or in park. With passengers in vehicle very scary. Have spent more than $4000 @ dealer @ & manufacturer involved. With no resolution...but the stress & the dissatisfaction in the american product I'd like to buy that can't be fixed. I'm convinced I'll probably never buy american again. Very disappointed on how jeep corporate handled the issue & left me with vehicle with these problems & told me case closed... Trade it in.
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