2014 Jeep Patriot: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Feb 29, 2020 · Transmission · 103,000 miles · MI

I was driving approx 45 MPH when I heard a popping noise followed by grinding noise while in 5th gear. Took my car to the shop and was told it looked like the transmission. I then took it to a transmission shop who verified that the transmission was shot. It was cracked in several places. I had the transmission replaced with a new one. When I went to pick up my car, I asked to take pictures so that I could talk to jeep about having a transmission fail at 103k miles. While taking pictures and looking at the damaged transmission, the mechanic said " wait a minute. What year is your jeep?" I told him it was a 2014. He said, "look at this sticker. It means that this transmission was manufactured in 2016. So, you are actually on your 3rd transmission." I was able to track the transmission by the part number and found out that it was installed in july 2016. The original transmission failed at 51,477 miles. The one that just came out failed at 52, 075 miles.

Filed Nov 20, 2018 · Brakes · 97,000 miles · TX

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 jeep patriot. The contact heard a grinding noise coming from the rear wheels and the rear rotors were extremely hot. The vehicle was taken to dick poe chrysler/jeep (6501 montana ave, el paso, tx 79925) on two occasions and they replaced the rear brake pads. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 97,000.

Filed Oct 31, 2018 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 73,500 miles · CO

When driving on highways and city streets the whole dashboard lights up with all the warning symbols. Everything in the dashboard including the speedomoter resets to zero lights up and then goes off and on for a couple of miles. It sounds like the car system is trying to click on and off or readjust. I then am not able to accelerate above 40mph when the gas pedal is all the way to the floor while driving on highways, city streets and turning. The traction light is on although I do not manually have it on and sputters when turning on city streets and grinds gears and gets stuck not allowing me to accelerate above 20mph. After receiving a diagnostics from a jeep dealership they said that the above stated issues could be related to the throttle body system. The issues are still occuring after mulptile mechanic checks.

Filed Oct 2, 2018 · Transmission · 90,000 miles · AZ

My 2014 jeep patriot just experienced transmission failure. It has 91,000 miles on it, but has been properly maintenanced. The input shaft bearing started making grinding and whining noises when the clutch was let out while parked and driving. Soon had troubles shifting and my transmission not wanting to go into gear. I looked on the internet for a remedy and noticed thousand of complaints related to this same issue involving most jeep vehicles. One vehicle only had 31,000 miles when their transmission failed. My vehicle is currently at the automotive shop. They stated that I have 3 options which include rebuild my current transmission (which may be a total loss) , buy a used tramsmission ( no guarantee of when another failure will occur), or buy a new transmission from the dealership (no guarantee of when failure will occur). The automotive shop stated that there is a parts shortage due to this issue and may not be able to obtain the parts to rebuild the transmission and also lack of used transmissions due to the same issue. I just bought this vehicle 1 year ago and will have to pay thousands to fix it due to a known problem in the automotive community without any guarantee of when it will happen again. The owner of my local automotive shop told me to sell it because of the known transmission failure. I saved money to buy this jeep with cash and do not have the funds to continually replace transmissions in it. Big problem for jeep and quality of their products. Bigger problem for the owners that are paying thousands to fix their vehicles. Their transmissioms should be recalled due to not model specific. All jeep models are having the same issues. I cannot believe there is no recall for this issue already.

Filed Feb 23, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 36,000 miles · KY

I purchased a brand new 2014 jeep patriot latitude from marshall dodge in crittenden (which should be shut down for horrible customer service after purchasing!) was a great car for the first little bit. I can no longer depend on this vehicle on the interstate. At interstate speed (65-70 MPH) the car will begin to make a squeal noise and within five minutes I am playing leap frog to get to the emergency lane at max speed of (20 MPH) and the vehicle is very jerky. When it does this all fluids in the car are fine, give it about 20 minutes and the car will act normal, but I cannot trust it to get back on the interstate. This has been going on for two years. I've taken it back to the dealership that I purchased it from and their useless extended warranty and nothing gets done! I have continually been told they cannot find any signs via computer it has done anything like this or after keeping it for two weeks driving it and looking it over it has no reason to. It is beginning to happen more frequently and am frustrated I can trust my original vehicle (thankfully I didn't trade it in to that crooked dealership) that has almost 200,000 miles on it, a 2004 scion tc, more than a vehicle I bought brand new that started becoming unreliable with 36,000 miles on it. I feel like I bought a lemon and the dealership doesn't want to fix it. This vehicle cannot be trusted to get to a to b and I feel like I am getting screwed by my jeep dealership and jeep. There should be a recall on this, the more I research the more common it is; or jeep should have to make these vehicles right, because they are extremely dangerous and could cause a major accident on the interstate! If it is never made right you can bet I will never own another jeep product and I will be sure let my family and friends know just how dangerous they are!

Filed Sep 7, 2017 · Brakes, Transmission · 59,000 miles · AR

My 2014 jeep patriot over the last several months seems to be losing power while driving. For example when on the on ramp attempting to enter the interstate , it just feels like its almost running out of gas and RPM's will go up to 5-6 .I am almost afraid of being ran over when accelerating during any situation. Also my brakes from day one have always squeeked... I've taken it in to have it checked , they have cleaned and days later the same think. And the drums on rear are even worse, more of a grinding sound, but also I have been told they are fine. This noise is not normal . I have also had a few incidents where say sitting in traffic with my foot on the brake it will switch from manual to standard. It will be in drive then I will look and it will be in d 1. I have to manually push the shifter over to go back to normal drive.

Filed Sep 30, 2016 · Brakes · 19,000 miles · KY

Brakes have been squeaking since june. Discussed it again with dealership & was told brakes are fine & it's "normal". This occurs when backing out of driveway which is not very steep & even braking at a stop sign at 20 MPH on a residential street. Even when braking on flat surfaces out of parking spots in reverse.

Filed May 17, 2016 · Transmission · 54,144 miles · AZ

This is the 4th time that my jeep that was purchased in january 2015 has been in the shop replacing the transmission. My transmission is losing power and slipping. A very loud grinding noise started and every mile that I drove it gradually got worse causing it to lose power. I was told if problem is not fixed the vehicle will end up shutting off on its own while driving down the road. Thus creating a huge safety issue as it could cause an accident. When is a vehicle considered a lemon? I don't want to wait until something life threatening happens with my family , friends, or customers are in my vehicle. This is the 4th time that I have lost money from it being in the shop.

Filed May 30, 2015 · Brakes · 1,000 miles · WA

I go to start my 2014 patriot and when I move it and step on my brake pedal when its cold, the brakes squeal. I haven't had any problems other than that so far, and it now has about 1,600 miles on it.

Filed May 21, 2015 · Engine · 12,000 miles · MA

On several occasions I notice that when I go start my jeep it the engine has a bit of hesitation starting, when it starts it like thump. Also while drive my vehicle seem to increase an at time decrease on its own. Today I did a search on recalls and found one safety recall n52. I contacted chrysler to inquire about the recall and was told there were no recalls for my jeep. I explained that the federal safety agency had the recall information on their web site, and was informed that it is not the federal safety agency who puts recalls. Recalls are VIN specific. I'm a little baffle by the woman at chrysler's comment, due to the fact that she has no idea of what is happening with my vehicle. I thank the woman and stated that I honestly hope the information given is correct and that I am safe on the roads. Personally I don't trust the manufactures due to having past recalls on vehicles and recieving no notification. My question to the federal safety agency is regarding recall n52 is this a VIN specific recall or is this a recall for 2014 jeep patriot owners. I also notice the issue another person had with the rear brake squealing.

Filed Apr 29, 2015 · Brakes · SC

Rear drum brakes squeal when backing up and sometimes when applying brakes while driving forward. I took the vehicle to firestone and they said it might be due top dust build up in the drum. They cleaned and inspected the rear drums and said they were in good shape. Within an hour or so the squealing continued. A few days later I took the vehicle to the jeep chrysler dealership. They inspected the rear drum brakes and could not find anything wrong with them. Nothing needed to be replaced or fixed. I was told by the jeep service department that drum brakes squealing/squeaking is normal. I am having a hard time accepting this answer. I can't believe jeep would produce a car with brakes where squealing/squeaking is normal!! A few months later I called jeep service again and the service tech told me they got a lot of the same complaints and jeep corporate is aware of the issue. I was not told of any plans they have to fix the issue.

Filed Feb 21, 2015 · Brakes, Suspension · 23,777 miles · GA

There's a very loud squealing sound when backing up. It also happens when I release the emergency brake or even when I lift my foot off of the brake pedal. I took it in to the dealership to get it looked at and they could not find the problem. They heard the noise, inspected my brakes and everything but could not find the problem. Coincidentally, I was the second customer that day with the same exact problem.