First of all I was able to get my coolant problem resolved thanks to the forum here so I'm back to trying to get my brakes fixed since I have had this issue day one.
I bought this in February 2017 and pointed out some weird problems that I had day one. We had a snow storm and my driveway was a bit icy and I noticed that the Jeep would just take way too far to stop which seemed like either bad traction or something else. After some of the ice would melt and my lower part of my driveway would be completely dry I was noticing that the Jeep would slide all the way down my driveway until the front tires hit the dry pavement which is where I started to see the problem. I let Jeep know immediately that this was a serious concern and took it to the dealership to which they were going to look at. Well the dealership told me this was operating under normal specifications which it clearly wasnt. I couldnt find out exactly what was going on and during the non-snow times it seemed to just take a bit more to stop. So here we are another winter and I contacted Jeep once again that this was a problem. They seemed to continue to ignore the issue so I took it to a 3rd party. The guy told me he had fixed about 50 Jeeps 2017-2018 that had this problem and wouldn't tell me much more than it was definitely a Jeep defect. Clearly he was exploiting this flaw so the shop wasnt going to disclose too much there but I realized that Jeep should investigate this so I continued to pursue getting them involved.
Well today I took a video of the Jeep going down my driveway just for my own sanity to see if what I suspected was true. You can see 52 seconds in to the video that the front brakes lock and the rear just keep rolling. I am extremely disappointed it had to come to this to get a car manufacturer to acknowledge a possible safety issue but I'm sure they get a lot of BS complaints often however this has been going on for 2 years now and I've not seen a recall yet so here it is:
Has anyone else had this issue as I am wondering if it is an issue with all 2017-2018 or just possibly this model. I'm trying to find out so that I can know what to expect to pay when I take it in to a shop rather than them say we have to replace the whole rear brake system at my cost and its something like a pinched brake line.
Thanks
I bought this in February 2017 and pointed out some weird problems that I had day one. We had a snow storm and my driveway was a bit icy and I noticed that the Jeep would just take way too far to stop which seemed like either bad traction or something else. After some of the ice would melt and my lower part of my driveway would be completely dry I was noticing that the Jeep would slide all the way down my driveway until the front tires hit the dry pavement which is where I started to see the problem. I let Jeep know immediately that this was a serious concern and took it to the dealership to which they were going to look at. Well the dealership told me this was operating under normal specifications which it clearly wasnt. I couldnt find out exactly what was going on and during the non-snow times it seemed to just take a bit more to stop. So here we are another winter and I contacted Jeep once again that this was a problem. They seemed to continue to ignore the issue so I took it to a 3rd party. The guy told me he had fixed about 50 Jeeps 2017-2018 that had this problem and wouldn't tell me much more than it was definitely a Jeep defect. Clearly he was exploiting this flaw so the shop wasnt going to disclose too much there but I realized that Jeep should investigate this so I continued to pursue getting them involved.
Well today I took a video of the Jeep going down my driveway just for my own sanity to see if what I suspected was true. You can see 52 seconds in to the video that the front brakes lock and the rear just keep rolling. I am extremely disappointed it had to come to this to get a car manufacturer to acknowledge a possible safety issue but I'm sure they get a lot of BS complaints often however this has been going on for 2 years now and I've not seen a recall yet so here it is:
Has anyone else had this issue as I am wondering if it is an issue with all 2017-2018 or just possibly this model. I'm trying to find out so that I can know what to expect to pay when I take it in to a shop rather than them say we have to replace the whole rear brake system at my cost and its something like a pinched brake line.
Thanks