2015 Jeep Patriot: CVT failure

Filed Mar 1, 2021 · Transmission · 12,000 miles · VA

Transmission is overheating in various driving conditions. It used to be at highway speeds on hot days. Now it occurs in any conditions down to 49 degrees at 45 miles per hour. The problem is common in this vehicle, chrysler knows about it and does nothing to correct it in manufacturing. Problem has been occurring since the first year but was too infrequent and got too little response from dealership to invoke lemon law in time. Chrysler and some dealerships attempt to wait out the lemon law and then the warranty period. Transmission overheats with much greater frequency now. The safety problem is that the vehicle goes into limp mode and goes to zero power very quickly. My wife could find herself stranded in an strange or unsafe neighborhood,or worse, along crowded stretch of interstate like i95 n at chester, pa or in the middle of any clover leaf. The vehicle becomes a hazard to my wife and other drivers. Or imagine virginia, i95 n heading for dc where traffic is both heavy and fast-moving. A slow vehicle merging is nearly impossible in some places. And now a vehicle dies in the center lane. Boom. If this was the failure of a wear item and could not be helped, that would be one thing. But chrysler/jeep knew they were putting out bad transmissions for years and did nothing. In our case champion in mississippi misdiagnosed the problem as the throttle body and replaced it. The problem remained. Bayside in virginia replaced the throttle body again, the transmission and then the wire harness. The problem persists and is worsening. We are in our 5th year of dealing with this. This little fiat trans is too small and weak for a midsize SUV. Any vehicle, midsize or larger, with this CVT transmission in it should be taken off the road. Date below and original mileage reading are approximate. Problem continues to this day. Please help us.

Filed Sep 27, 2020 · Transmission · 90,000 miles · WI

Cvt transmission started to slightly slip at around 90,000 miles and at the time I did not know that this was in fact the problem. As time went on it became more obvious what it was and of course after 100,000 miles is when the warranty was good nolonger so lost out on that.

Filed Jul 20, 2018 · Transmission · 47,000 miles · VA

When driving at normal highways speeds for extended periods the transmission temp warning light will come on and slow the vehicle speed to 40mph or less and if you do not pull the vehicle over and shut it off it will lose all power to the transmission and the vehicle will stop moving totally. This has happened several times, the first being a two hour trip from chesapeake virginia to richmond. We took the highway and maintained the speed limit of 55-70 MPH as posted and about one hour into our journey the vehicle lost power abruptly and slowed to 40 MPH while we were traveling 70 in the left lane and then totally lost all forward travel almost causing us to be slammed into by an 18 wheeler. The most recent time was two days ago july 18,2018. We were driving to connecticut from chesapeake virginia and about three and half hours into our journey the transmission temp warning light came on and the vehicle within less than 2 minutes had lost all forward motion leaving us stuck in the left lane on the new jersey turnpike for atleast half an hour while cars zoomed by. We were traveling the posted speed limit of 65 MPH. Then again a few hours later in the trip it did the exact same thing. I called the dealership and they said that it's stated in the owners manual that this will happen. I find it extremely frustrating that they are able to sell a car that under normal operating conditions will just shut down! This is not an isolated incident with the patriot and after some research it seems jeep no longer puts the CVT transmission in the patriot due to this exact problem. I googled this and there are so many forums where people are so frustrated that jeep is able to sell this lemon. We've taken it to a mechanic and they agree this is a problem that can't be fixed as it's a CVT transmission design flaw and our only course of action is to put a brand ne transmission in.fixthis!

Filed Jul 14, 2017 · Transmission · 38,000 miles · NY

When it is hot out 85-100f, my transmission overheating light goes on while driving at expressway/interstate highway speeds. The engine temperatures are within normal limits. It occurs without the A/C on. When this situation happens, my vehicle will no longer accelerate and will become slower and slower until I'm going >20mph. This is hazardous on high speed limit congested roadways. This has happened to my 2015 jeep patriot freedom drive 2 CVT at least 5 times during hot spring days or the summer. I have had to park on a shoulder of an expressway for 20-30 minutes for it to cool down so I could safely reenter the highway. I have heard of two other people with this issue and I do not know many people who have this model. All vehicles should be capable of getting to highway speed on an on ramp and merge in. I do not know if it is a cooling issue, a thermostat malfunction, or something else. I own the latitude, trail rated model, 2015. I bought it with only 2 miles on the odometer and I do regular fully synthetic oil changes. When I know the issue is starting I hear a distinctive winding sound when accelerating. Almost like the sound a drill or remote control car makes (like it's stuck in 1 gear, even though my car is a CVT I usually feel a "shift" when accelerating or passing. When this occurs, it sounds like something is restricting the "gears" and causing the winding/whining sound, like if you put a manual transmission into 1st or second and kept accelerating up to highway speeds.

Filed Feb 7, 2017 · Transmission · OK

Went to get an oil change and technician found CVT disptick tube on the splash guard. Google search shows lots of people complaining and talking about this. Since the CVT tube does not have any end user serviceable parts it was never touched . Seems to be breaking from poor design/vibration. Dealer will not cover nder bumper to bumper warranty a simple google search shows this is a common problem on these engine/CVT combos https://www.google.com/search?q=jeep+patriot+transmission+dipstic+broken&rlz=1c1chbf_enus723us723&oq=jeep+patriot+transmission+dipstic+broken&aqs=chrome..69i57.20303j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=utf-8