NHTSA ODI #11718177

2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee Complaint

Power Train / Vehicle Speed Control / Engine

Filed February 16, 2026 · Incident date February 9, 2026

Vehicle
2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Component(s)
Power Train / Vehicle Speed Control / Engine
Complaint filed
February 16, 2026
Date of incident
February 9, 2026
Reported VIN
1C4RJHBG8S8

Owner's description

On multiple occasions, the transmission does not respond to gear changes such as moving from drive to reverse or park into drive. On those occasions, the D for drive would be blinking. More concerning and very dangerous is a lack of propulsion mid drive, the transmission would not go into gear. The engine would rev high, and it would not move forward, except by whatever momentum it originally had. This has happened to me on at least four occasions two of which I was in the left lane of three and four lane wide streets with cars passing me at high speed on the right. I needed to pull over turn the car off and then on again, which is the only way that the transmission would start working again. Sometimes the transmission would be jerky, especially after those incidents. crossing three and four lanes while people are going 50 and 60 miles an hour is a very dangerous situation when you have no power. The car is a new car. I have had it for only two months and it has been doing this intermittently the entire time. This has been at the dealer for service two times so far and has not been able to be replicated, however, I do have one incident on video. There were no warning lamps messages, and there are no error codes that are found by the dealer.

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