The car stalled and turned off while pulling out on a busy road. This happened twice over the past 12 mos. There is also a notable 'kick' in the automatic transmission while lowering speed.
2015 Jeep Renegade transmission complaints
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My transmission shifts to neutral while in motion on city streets and highways on its own and puts me at risk for crashing. I have taken my vehicle in on more than two occasions before my 100,000 mile warranty and the problem still persisted and has become worse.
The vehicle was purchased new from a jeep dealer. After a few months it drove just fine until we noticed an odd behavior that began to get frequent as more miles added on. We had the service department of the same dealer verify issues related to powertrain performance: rought & harsh shifting, shuttering when in 3-4 or 4-5 gear, slow or heavy sluggish acceleration from stop, high engine reving up to 3,4 thousand RPM with delayed shifting to next gear when traveling uphill or high altitude expressway, slamming into gears when up or down shifting, jerky & harsh thump when stopping from gears 1-2 & when accelerating from gears 1-2, 3-4-5, and rought idle when drive is engaged. All complaints have been reported to service department during the past 60 months with only 'computer updates' for transmission offered as a solution and no other alternative offered to permantly remedy the problem. I was told by the service department that these are 'normal charateristics' of my car. We stand firm that the car didn't present these issues when new or we would not have made the purchase. Recently, as of june our vehicle has been at the service department with a complaint of a rumble, whinning, and vibrations coming from the drive train when driving from 30-40 miles and restarts at aprox. 60 MPH.we have been told again that an update to the powertrain would be performed and some bearrings would be replaced. The service manager don't return my calls or answer the 3 messages left with his associates to my tag number and issues. The only responce we get is that they are waiting for parts. I asked if we would get a warranty extension? The responce was 'non that we know of' by the service representative. My factory warranty expires today and my car is in the shop unrepaired with no powertrain solution. Concerned that warranty expire and powertrain issues continue with no avail.
The 2015 jeep renegade has transmission issues and needs to be addressed before someone is seriously injured due the lurking issues. When the vehicle is at an complete stop and you hit the gas to go through an intersection the vehicle lurks and hesitates before the transmission will engage. This issues had created other drives slamming on their breaks to avoid hitting my jeep . This issue has been occurring ever since I purchased the vehicle used 03/19.
I was driving on the highway around 3pm when I attempted to turn on the air and the temperature never adjusted. My coolant indicator turned fully red. My car started smoking and I pulled over and popped the hood to see my antifreeze boiling out of the reservoir. I kept the hood up and waited for it to cool down. The next morning, I drove to my sitter's where I completed my trip and the car started smoking again. Now it's at the shop.
When starting out from a stop, the transmission hesitates when shifting gears almost causing my vehicle to be rear ended several times. This is a constant problem.
My car shifts very badly when I'm trying to drive from a stoplight or a complete stop. I start to go when the light turns green it suddenly stops and then picks right back up. I took it to a shop last week and was told that it is fine...I also try to merge into traffic coming from a parking lot and had almost been hit because of this shifting issue twice so far because I know it is going to happen and normally wait to make sure no cars are anywhere close to me as I try and enter traffic. This issue needs to be fixed and recalled for the transmissions for all the 2015 models.
Vehicle loses permanent power to computer that powers transmission and knocked out computer and the transmission from shifting from drive to park and park to drive rendering the car totally disabled without dealership intervention do to bad connection on the negative battery terminal. This left the car unmovable from travel lane to side of the road in heavy traffic without a tow truck being summoned. At time of incident vehicle would not shift to neutral for removal from highway to safety and placed everyone in danger of high speed collision for the whole entire time that vehicle remained locked down in high capacity, high speed lane of travel.
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 jeep renegade. The contact stated that the gear shifter failed to move from the park position. The cause of the failure was not determined. The local dealer efird chrysler located at 1711 west lucas st, florence, sc 29501, was notified of the failure. The contact was informed that the VIN was not included in the federal safety agency campaign number: 16v529000 (power train). The contact stated that the vehicle experienced the failure listed in the recall. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 80,000.
I bought my 2015 jeep renegade brand new in september 2015 and began having problems right away. There's a power issue where the car will just shut off and lose power and the key gets stuck in the ignition. I have had it jumped several times just to get it moving again. Took the car to several auto zones to test out the battery just to see if I would get a different response but each confirmed that there is nothing wrong with the battery. It either completely shuts off or stops picking up speed in the middle of busy houston traffic. You can feel when it switch gears sometimes, it makes this hard and loud popping noise when it's trying to switch gears. It's always done that. This usually happens if I'm at a slower driving speed, like turning at a light, and then accelerate to pick up speed, it either makes that loud popping sound, or struggles to pick up speed and eventually stalls and/or lose power. It's real scary. I've been having this problem since I bought it and have had it checked out many times but no one can tell me what's wrong with it. I have been monitoring the recalls and have been seeing numerous cases from people with the same issue I'm having but somehow my VIN isn't associated with any recalls.
When driving the vehicle it hesitates to receive gas and it shifts extremely hard between gears. It stalls and moves forward aggressively when pressing the gas. It vibrates hard while idling (at traffic lights) it has become a safety hazard as it feels as though it is ready to stop at any moment
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 jeep renegade. The contact stated that while driving approximately 10 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The gear shifter was able to be moved however the gear would not shift to match the intended gear the vehicle was shifted to. The vehicle would display that the vehicle would need to be in park in order to shut the vehicle off, however, the gear shifter failed to shift to the park position. The contact depressed the break pedal for an extended time to restart the vehicle. The contact was able to proceed with driving the vehicle. The contact stated that the failure was related to the federal safety agency campaign number: 16v529000 (power train). The vehicle was not taken to be diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The approximate failure mileage was 65,000.
I sent 1 service record. I have 3 more if needed. Jeep still is unsafe I was on a busy street at 5pm at a stop light. When I put foot on gas the car would not move then it started out inching away and finally got moving.it took at least 8 or 10 seconds to get passed the green light and the car behind me was way to close and could have been an accident. I have had it looked at 4 or 5 times and all thats been done is updates and replaced a valve body part. I have an attorney and filed suit against chrysler. This jeep is not safe to drive and they dont care. They are going to wait til someone dies then they will get on this issue. I dont know why my jeep was not in the last recall for transmission but it should be, and they should not be allowed to resell this jeep or the 2015 renegades period. They are not safe.there are many complaints about this transmission and still no recall. Its been 4 yrs with this jeep running like its 30 yrs old and I am paying 41000 for it. Do missouri a favor,get these 9speed transmissions off the road, they are causing major stress and hardships to the owners. The speed in this jeep is unpredictable. I was on a city street driving at 35 MPH and as soon as I was going down a big hill the car sped up way more than the usual down hill speed. They all go a little faster but this was like it was trying to go above 55 and was praying it would stop and it did. But when will the day come that it wont ... I will not live to tell if it ever happens. Sad. And all I wanted was a way to get to work,. And all chrysler cares about is getting paid .
The headlights were on too long while the engine was off causing a dead battery. No big deal I thought... I jumpstart the car per owners manual instructions (it has a complex battery so even though I've jump started many different vehicles I wanted to make sure there weren't special procedures, it ended up being pretty standard). When it died it was in a garage so I had to manually unlock the gear selector to put the car into neutral to push it into position for a jump connection. I put the car in park and let the battery charge up a while. Once the car charged up enough, it started right up. At this point I thought I was in the clear, that's when the service engine light and service transmission light came on. The engine is running fine, transmission was fine before the battery died. Not only that, but I could not move the vehicle. It was locked into park. I was blocking the road in my neighborhood while I was manually unlocking the gear selector, I finally get the car to shift into drive and tried to accelerate. Only the engine would rev, no movement. Try to reverse, same thing. At this point I couldn't get the car back into park. I push the car back into the garage to get it out of the way and go to turn it off. The renegade (push button start) will not let you turn the car off in any gear but park. It was stuck in neutral. After struggling more to force it back into park, I finally get it and was able to turn the car off. I'm lucky it didn't get stuck in d or r if it started working! I've never had such an experience jumpstarting a car and this is a huge safety concern. Luckily I was strong enough to push the car back out of the way, otherwise it would be stuck there indefinitely until a tow came. I've read numerous other complaints of this in online forums. Each one said a dealership had to reset the cars computer to make it work again.
When driving the vehicle it shifts extremely hard between gears. It will stall then lurch forwards when hitting the gas pedal. It vibrates very hard while idling (like at a stop light) about 50% of the time. It has been serviced at my local jeep dealership where the pushed a software update. This helped, but did not solve the issues for a few weeks (at most). It is now scheduled to be dropped off again.
I am contacting you due to due to baxter service rep paul at baxter chrysler dodge jeep ram dealer refusal to repair recalls for my jeep renegade. The recalls that generate from my insurance company allstate are indeed recalls my vehicle needs based on performance issues. He informed me that they're not recalls, and when I said allstate made them up, he said 'yeah'! The information for the 4 recalls are from data.gov. The service department at baxter says they are only going to repair the recall (for engine cooling fan) that chrysler website shows! Please advise &/or assist to resolve this issue! I have reported to the assistant service mgr justin sunquist and bbb as well. Thanks
If you have small children do not load them in this jeep! When accelerating from a dead stop will struggle to get up to speed and sounded like I was rear ended at a high speed. I got out of the jeep to see if something fell off. Transmission sounds and feels like its slipping. Not every time but it happens so often it has made me feel unsafe and I do not go out of town or long trips over 45 miles away from home. . Every time I take it to the shop and ask whats going on they say its how the jeep renegade was made, its normal for it to do all this.
When turning on car all warning lights came on and then each one started flickering one by one. Then my transmission light and warning message came on. Car would start but locked itself and couldn't shift gears . I tried unlocking it and shifted to reverse it would not accelerate and would get stuck in that gear so had to manually unlock and shift to drive and couldn't accelerate. Couldn't turned it off gear shift would lock itself. Happened while heading back home. So I took it to the dealership and saw the recall for transmission. They ended up doing something else that I didn't say yes to now they are charging me for it and while my car was getting repaired. They gave me a loaner car, I get in car accident in their loaner car I had insurance but only liability. Dealership won't give my car back until I pay in cash a deductible of 2,500 and plus repairs I didn't agree to.
Car stalls while driving. All lights flash on dashboard flash. Shifter froze.
Starting from a stationary position, the transmission often has trouble getting into gear. It happens getting into reverse or drive. When I switch from the break peddle to the gas peddle and gently press on it, the transmission often has trouble finding the gear. The has happened while driving also. Stopped at a stop sign, I gently press the gas, only to find that my car will not go. It has happened on the highway, while at higher speeds, it tries to shift to a higher gear and it has trouble getting there. It has happened 60-70 times over the last year, becoming more frequent. I had trouble with this the first year I got the car, but they said it was fine. I feel like it's a safety risk.
I live off a busy highway in houston, tx. I feel I play a game of chicken each time I attempt to turn out of my neighborhood in my jeep renegade. The transmission hesitates, the engine light may or may not come on. A host of new electrical messages may or many not pop up. I have had lights stop and start working. The car cut off when making a turn as the car is burning insane amounts of oil. It is not the dependable vehicle I had hoped for. I understand some issues however there appears to be a new one almost weekly. I have hired a lawyer to investigate my case s this the absolute worst vehicle I have ever owned. The car jerks like someone is smashing into the back of you when going 15 MPH or less. It loses power and hesitates on takeoff. The car suffers from major electrical issues and I feel this is a cash cow for the manufacture to keep owners serving their vehicles on a regular basis. Something needs to be done about this. Many owners give the same complaints and the same issues, however no one seems to want to listen or hold the manufacture accountable.
Transmission hesitates so badly going into second gear that I am constantly almost rear ended, and being screamed at by other motorists, especially in traffic. If you're not at a complete stop, it's not as badr. But forget it if you have to stop for over 3 seconds. Traffic and parking lot seems to be the absolute worse (if you're keeping it at 15 MPH or under it seems. First they replaced the valve body, then 2 trans mounts, all at a cost to me, before they decided to replace the trans. Transmission was supposedly "replaced" under warranty, but has only gotten worse. Also, now having engine replaced, because it burns 3 quarts of oil every 1000 miles. Less than 50,000 miles on this car.
Apx 2 months after purchase car would not start in my driveway. Diff codes would appear and it locked up. Towed to dealer and battery replaced. While driving and coming to stop on local roads car would feel like rearended and check oil light would come on and service engine icon and car would stall. On diff occasions when trying to start car in my driveway it would either not start or barely turn over and have no accelarition or 3 MPH and would not go in reverse. Car would stall about 4 blocks from house when I came to stop. Transmission replaced and the rear end feeling fixed. Car had oil change appt recently and day of appt it would not start and engine light came on. Half hour later car started and I took it to dealer. Service said problem fixed. Week later same problem again. Took to dealer and they said problem fixed come get car. Service called me and said car wouldnt start for them even tho they fixed it. My car has now been in shop 3 weeks waiting on part. Part edt is now 9/11/19. I also had motor mounts replaced and now dealer also says problem with my suspension and that has caused my year old tires to wear thin. No photos to submit. Dates car affected approx.
Temperature light comes on while idling. Cooling fan not working at all. Fan failed and fuse blown.
Not even 1 month of purchasing the jeep I was driving on I 40 when all the sudden the jeep shifted into neutral so shifted it back into drive and took it straight to larry h miller and they had it for 3 days I got it back and since that day it pops into neutral again at least 5 more times this time I was driving it on a business road so now I always have to keep my hand on the shifter just inase it happens again and also my lights keep going dim my radio lights and my light in the whole jeep and every time apon acceleration the jeep seems like it skips.
Car will fail sporadically to accelerate while trying to merge into traffic I was almost hit by other vehicles more than once I've talked to others with the same car and all of them described the same exact experience it's only a matter of time before someone is killed.
My vehicle jerks forward when I accelerate from a complete stop. This also happens most of the time when I am driving 30 m.p.h. Or less and try to accelerate. My car will jerk forward and back, then operate normal. My reported this issue with my dealership, but they couldn't find anything wrong and sent me off. I've gone to them twice, and simply gave up, but the issue is still there. I purchased my car in 2015. It's very annoying, but there doesn't seem to be a recall for this issue, although, many customers are experiencing the same thing. Same model year (2015), we're all not crazy, there is definitely an issue with the 2015 renegade's transmission.
We purchased our vehicle at approx 23k miles it immediately started shifting hard. We were advised that these vehicles are know to do that so we didn't pursue the issue! However in july 2017 when on a trip to maryland while climbing mountains and coming down them the transmission would not shift out of 4th gear. On the down side of the mountain when it wouldn't shift we would have to pull to the emergency lane, put the vehicle in park, turn off for a few minutes and then try to merge into traffic again at 70+ MPH. Our transmission acted up more than 4 times doing this. I have asked for the dealership to look into it and they keep stating they can't find anything wrong with it. We live in indiana and the road conditions are not the same however the hard shifting occurs here. We are still under original manufacture warranty at this time. It seems to be a know issue with the 9 speed transmission for the 2015 jeep renegade but nothing has been done or able to be done to fix the issues!
Vehicle will randomly accelerate without any input from the gas pedal. This can vary from a short burst of speed and a spudur to a long term acceleration that only stops when applying the break. Even when stationary the vehicle will raise rpms considerably wanting to lurch forward if not in park. This issue began to be noticeable around the 25,000 mile mark in my case.
My garage has a slight incline. When I put the car in reverse, it jerks back and forth until I apply the brakes. Also when it shifts into second gear, I feel a slight hesitation and a hear a clunking sound.
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