On 5 occasions at various speeds and types of roads, my vehicle suddenly goes into limp mode, the engine shuts off and power steering goes out. I have very limited time and control to move off the road before the car behind me slams into me. The majority of the instances this has happened, the orange anti-skid light comes on though road conditions were fine. I found a recall of 2016 Jeep Patriots (s89/the federal safety agency 16-v-907 Crankshaft/Camshaft Sensor Wire Harness) and many complaints I've found experiencing the same thing I experienced were included in this recall. Mechanic ran my Jeep's code and it showed a number of things were triggered but he couldn't pinpoint what exactly could be the cause based on the code errors. I have a young child in a car seat in the back of my car and feel extremely unsafe taking her anywhere, let alone when it's just me in the car. Please consider adding the 2015 Patriot to this recall.
2015 Jeep Patriot transmission complaints
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Two issues- First one the vehicle engine tends to randomly sputter like there is a dead cylinder. Which I have found by adding electric jell to the spark plug connector will make the problem go away for a short time. Second one now in the rear transfer case is marking a grinding noise and is getting louder.
***vehcile was purchased january 2021. Later found out the 2015 jeep patriot I purchased had 5 previous owners...making me the 6th owner.*** sept 2021 I was driving during rush hour on busy las vegas city street when out of nowhere and no warning my 2015 jeep patriot lost power...3 dashboard lights came on (lightning bolt/check engine light/traction control). I was able to coast into a hotel parking lot after crossing 3 lanes of traffic. Once parked, I shut the vehicle off, waited about 10-15 seconds tried restarting it again and to no avail the problem persisted. Had the car towed to mechanic shop where they determined/diagnosised the problem to be the throttle body and it needed to be replaced. Car was no longer under warranty so I had to come out of pocket almost $1000. All this during the covid 19 pandemic. When I picked up the vehicle from the mechanic they informed me the traction control light is still on because my rack/pinion was damaged so my alignment is out of whack. They allowed me to drive off with my vehicle even when the alignment being screwed up. When driving my vehicle home, I was so scared because it felt like my vehicle wanted to go in every direction at the same time. The next day I took my vehicle to big o tires to have them test the alignment. After they re-aligned the jeep it ran perfect. But I spoke to soon...just after 1 week, im now starting to experience more issues...car accelerating on its own, hesitation when trying to take off from red light, back firing from either the tail pipe or under the hood (almost seems like the engine is being flooded out with to much gas), my gas mileage has gotten worse. This vehicle should be recalled!!!
My 2015 jeep patriot started making whining noises and jerking when in motion, I had the transmission and converter replaced at 75,000 miles, now I am at 95,000, and it is happening all over again, loud whining noises and jerks randomly when in motion, does not matter the speed or if I am on a city street going 40 miles an hour or highway going 70 miles an hour or even in a neighborhood going 10 miles an hour, I also have noticed the car does not accelerate properly, I currently have my car in the shop to diagnosis the problems again.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 jeep patriot. The contact stated that while his wife was driving 75 MPH, the transmission temperature warning light illuminated. The vehicle failed to accelerate. The vehicle was taken to safford chrysler dodge jeep ram & fiat of fredericksburg (5202 jefferson davis hwy, fredericksburg, va 22408) to diagnosed. The contact was informed that the throttle body needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired however, the failure recurred intermittently. The vehicle was taken back to the same dealer where to be diagnosed a second time. The contact was informed that the wiring harness needed to be replaced. The vehicle was diagnosed a third time and the contact was informed that the transmission was faulty. The vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure however, no further assistance was provided. The failure mileage was approximately 65,000.
My jeep patriot will stall out on me unexpectedly while driving. I have had thousands of work done on it just for it to continue to happen. No shop has been able to figure out what is wrong due to no code showing up. It has been overheating on me and has been causing me to throw away a lot of money. I am very upset about this and the fact that there is nothing happening and all of these complaints is ridiculous!!
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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 jeep patriot. The contact stated while driving 45 MPH, when he heard an abnormal noise. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact was able to drive to his destination. The contact called the local dealer monroeville chrysler jeep (3651 william penn hwy, monroeville, pa 15146, (412) 856-1422) and made the dealer aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 34,000.
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.
Two months ago my jeep started bucking violently when driving after it sat for a month being driven maybe once a week. I refilled the tank with premium and it still didn't help. Took it to the shop and they couldn't find a problem. It stopped doing that for for about two weeks but now it stared doing it again. It does it when I'm am accelerating from a slow down and also once I get up to 60 on the highway
The throttle body assembly was repaired in november of 2019. It is july of 2020, I have driven the vehicle less than 2500 miles since the initial repair and the vehicle is producing the exact same symptoms as it was before the repair. It hesitates, almost stalls, and lunges while driving. Traction control light, check engine light and the drive by wire warning light all flash when the vehicle is started and running.
Purchased the 2015 jeep patriot 02/2018 from carmax in columbia, sc. Mileage was just over 27,000 miles. It came with a 5 speed manual transmission. 3/2/2019 - a t355 transaxle 2 wd, 5 speed transmission was replaced, and clutch. 4/15/2020 - patriot was towed to the shop, carthage, tn. Clutch went out, replaced the slave cylinder, master clutch cylinder. 6/26/2020 - took the patriot to the shop, carthage, tn. Transaxle needs to be replaced. In 2019, the powertrain was still under manufacturer's warranty, we spoke to the jeep dealership in south carolina, they refused to do the work. When we contacted jeep 06/2020 when the jeep transmission was deemed needed replacing again, josh, in management, informed us that jeep would not do anything as the warranty had expired in february of 2020. Research has revealed that from 2007 to 2016, the 5 speed manual transmission is defective. We currently still owe 8000.00 dollars on the vehicle. We are not willing to put any money into another transmission. By the time we did, we would have over 5000.00 dollars in a worthless piece of garbage that is not reliable. Other issues: total right front rebuild within the first year of owning the vehicle. Overall, the vehicle is a lemon, and we need an investigation opened, as jeep has refused to assist in anyway or to correct the issue.
When driving the throttle body going into limp mode. Feels like a hiccup. Dodge in iowa has 40 other vehicles waiting on the same part for the same issue.
I was driving on a street in a residential area and my jeep started to jerk all of a sudden. I was no longer able to accelerate. This started happening in may and the last time is happened was june 22 2020. Jeep needs to put out a recall asap!
I was turning onto my street and my wheels locked up. I parked car (my son was in the back 3.9 years old) and noticed smoke under the hood, opened the hood and saw a huge fire. Went to store so had water - poured 6 water bottles on the fire to put it out.*dt consumer stated incident occurred 5 hours after the oil change that day.*jb
Driving on hwy 90 for an hour going 70mph. Loud whining sound started coming from the engine then transmission temperature light came on and vehicle started slowing down even with trying to keep speed. Speed kept decreasing so I pulled over for 20 minutes and went home.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 jeep patriot. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle loss motive power and stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to dodge chrysler jeep ram of winter haven (299 cypress gardens blvd, winter haven, fl 33880) however, the mechanic was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 59,000.
My car was in motion and I lost power while merging onto the highway and I was unable to get the car started back up. I got the car towed and when it arrived at the mechanic it started back up just fine, they were unable to duplicate the issue as no error message was on my dashboard, therefore their diagnostic device could not figure out what caused my car to stall. The mechanic kept my car for a while and it finally gave out on them again and they discovered by throttle body had gone out. I had this issue in may of 2017 and had it fixed at a jeep dealership and less than 3 years later my car has the very same issue.
When you accelerate the transmission slips. It doesn't do it all the time but at least 50-60% of the time. It started under the warranty and I had a dodge dealership look at it and they said they felt it slip but the road was wet so they couldn't say if it was the tranny or the tires slipping on the wet pavement. It has been slipping for the last year at least. After talking to other people who have these patriots they said the same thing (transmission slipping). It does it during acceleration.
Catastrophic failure of throttle control while driving down the highway. Vechile began to sputter and immediately flashed the lightning bolt warning light dropping from 80mph to 10 MPH. This was associated with the vechile violently sputtering. Vechile will start but when drive is engaged at low RPM nothing happens. With acceleration the car will sputter and not get past 15 miles per hour. During sputtering no power steering is avalible and braking is made difficult with sputtering.
The crankshaft sensor failed causing the engine to stop while driving without warning on a city street in boston. The car was brought to the nearest garage where they replaced the crankshaft position sensor and camshaft position sensor, but then an engine code came up saying that the accelerator pedal also needed to be replaced. I am unsure if this was related to the crankshaft sensor issue or just a coincidence. The car then had to be towed to a jeep dealer to replace the accelerator pedal and relearn the sensors. I noticed there was a recall on 2016 jeep patriots for the same crankshaft problem but no recall has been issued for the same problem occurring in 2015 jeep patriots. The engine died without warning and it is fortunate that this happened at ~20mph, it would have been disastrous at highway speeds.
Transmission shutters and slips between 55 and 70mph. Feels like car is going to stall out, and does not accelerate correctly
When traveling on the the interstate at about 80mph, the transmission oil overheat icon appears and I will begin to lose acceleration.
On march 8, 2019, while driving at approximately 45 MPH on a rural road, the engine stalled causing the car to lose power steering and the rpms to drop to 0. There was no check engine light indication that anything was wrong. On this occasion I was unable to restart the vehicle and had it towed to the dealership for repairs. The dealership stated that the battery failed diagnostic tests and replaced the battery. On march 22, 2019 while idling at a red light, the engine stalled again causing the rpms to drop to 0. I attempted to restart the vehicle and after two attempts the vehicle restarted and a check engine light was illuminated. I was able to drive to the nearest dealership where it was diagnosed that the camshaft/crankshaft sensor was malfunctioning. After subsequent research I located safety recall s89 / the federal safety agency 16-v-907 crankshaft camshaft sensor wire harness issued in february 2017 affecting 2016 dodge journey, 2016 jeep compass and 2016 jeep patriot.
While I am driving, the car stops running., the engine cuts off. I have to put the car in park or neutral to restart the engine. Sometimes it will start up sometimes I have to wait on it to starts. Today it stopped in the middle of the street and it did not start back up..the car had to be pushed out the street. My jeep will stop on the expressway while driving up to speed, it will stop on rural streets and while turning left or right it will shut down in the middle of the turn..this is extremely dangerous because it only shuts down when the car is in motion. This has been happening for 3 months.
While driving I made a right turn and then the "tire light" began to flash and a warning sound was heard then the "traction control light" began to flash and alert sound was heard and then a "red lightning bolt" warning light was flashing on the dashboard and the "engine light" turned on, all lights were lit up and the engine stalled and couldn't get passed 20mph even thought the accelerator was almost to the floor. The vehicle has only less than 32000 miles, and has had its regular maintenance. I've seen several similar complaints on jeep patriot forums and seen that the 2014 and 2016 had recalls for this or related issue. When stopping the vehicle idles high and still moves even though the brake is fully pressed, and the temperature rises fast. I was driving at night on a city street so luckily the wasn't much traffic. The lights came on before I lost engine power and I shut off the vehicle and turned it back on and they went away but that didn't happen the second time it occurred, the lights stayed on and that's when I also lost engine power and the vehicle would stall. Moves fine in reverse but because the vehicle is idling really high it takes off in reverse by itself without using the accelerator.
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!
Driving vehicle along the highway and it completely shut off. Had to put the vehicle in neutral to pull over to the side of the highway.
Takata recall there is a clunking noise in the front end while driving over bumps and the transmission is slipping while accelerating from a stop is when I notice it the mostly.
We own a 2015 jeep patriot, bought used in 2016. It now has about 75,000 miles on it and has served us well. That is, until the beginning of december. My husband heard an odd squeaking sound in the rear, and took it to our local mechanic (who is sae certified, and has worked as a service manager for both chrysler and ford) thinking that maybe we just needed more body clips on the bumper. After driving it around the block the mechanic thought it sounded more like worn shocks, so they put it up on the rack. Good thing we didn't wait much longer to bring it in, because the left rear axle was breaking loose from the frame the welding was still intact, but right beside the welding is a large break. And of course, several other parts are broken as well. Neither my husband nor the mechanic saw any signs of impact anywhere down there. There were no large dents, marks, protruding or bulging metal members of the vehicle's frame, bent or contorted axle members or twisted or torn parts of the chassis. Neither do we have any recollection of running over anything, or being hit by something. Our mechanic's take away was that this was a factory issue and needed to be handled by jeep. But neither the dealership nor jeep customer service are helping. This should still be covered by the power train warranty. But they won't take responsibility for it. My biggest concern is that this is not going to be the only jeep patriot that this happens to. If this is indeed a factory or material defect, then somewhere down the road someone else will have this happen and they might not be so fortunate as to discover it before the axle does fall off and cause injury or fatality.
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