2007 Jeep Patriot Other or unknown Problems

“I heard a knocking noise when I was backing out of my driveway and took it to a mechanic. They showed me that the rear sub frame was rotted. There is a huge hole from the rust. My car has always been garage kept and well maintained so this did not seem logical from everyday wear and tear.”

“On 3 occasions within the past year by car has just been turned off while I'm driving by I believe my knee bumping the ignition switch. I know chrysler has had other recalls due to similar issues on other makes/models but not on the '07 Patriot from what I've seen. I believe there may be a similar issue on the '07 Patriot. Car just totally dies. I then have to put it into park and restart car and it'll work fine at that point.”

“The right rear cross member and trailing arms fell down while driving, causing over $2500 in damage. Luckily I was going slowly enough because someone could have been seriously hurt. I was without my car for over a week.”

“This 2007 Jeep Patriot began having issues with the CVT aproximately one year after I purchased (2011). While driving home from work on the highway vehicle slowed to about 10 MPH then chugged quite a bit before refusing to start again. Replaced transmission twice at $3,500 (2012) for the first and $4,500 (2013) for the second one, also purchased the 5 year warrenty on the second CVT trany. Vehicle is in the shop every 3 months to work on transmission as of today (8-6-2015), which is very frustrating.”

“Filled gasoline up and had car idle while driving. Had to place car in park, turn ignition off and back on to get it to turn back on. This happened two times and happens everytime I fill up gas in car. Other Patriots have reported same issue and I have been very close to accidents due to this.”