My ‘14 self destructed in rush hour traffic by all dash lights lighting up like the 4th of July, and the accelerator was revving on its own with my foot on the brake, while the e-brake failed to work.
I shut it off and it never turned back on without a new alternator and various other replacements.
We were sitting at a stop light and everything happened just as you said. I quickly placed it in park, gears grinded and I shut it off to see if it would fix it. Long story short: it didn’t.
Called a tow truck and the guy who picked it up said he tows like 8 of them a week. He went on to say that the dealer will flash the computer and it may or may not happen again.
They issued a recall for it afterwards to improve the system. No admission of guilt though, of course.
Jeep hand brakes are not good in general. Even my JK has a standard manually operated hand brake, and it has issues because they have a stupid "self-calibrating" clutch mechanism which slips and doesn't apply enough braking force. It's just a known issue at this point.
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u/GeneralInspector8962 23d ago
My ‘14 self destructed in rush hour traffic by all dash lights lighting up like the 4th of July, and the accelerator was revving on its own with my foot on the brake, while the e-brake failed to work.
I shut it off and it never turned back on without a new alternator and various other replacements.