Sorry to drag this back up but I'm having some 'trans over temp" issues that don't necessarily match any of the other issues people have been describing here with it, and are really getting irritating. And yes I'm new so I hope this is an appropriate location.
About a month ago my wife's 2006 5.7 Limited (64,000 miles) popped the "trans over temp" message while driving at work. When the message appeared she said the jeep automatically revved up almost to redline, clunked really loud and seemed to lock her into gear so it wouldn't decline at all or downshift when braking. All the while smelling of horrible burning trans fluid. She called me to come look and I drove into town, saw the message and though if I turned it off maybe it will reset. So I turned it off and unlike a lot of the problems associated with this message that I've seen described on the forum it starts right back up minus the message and drives fine. The Jeep drove fine the rest of the day. The following day on her way to drop off the kids it popped the message again with the same symptoms. When she got to her location she turned it off like before and restarted and it was gone. I told her to take it to the dealership to have it looked at. On the way it popped up again with the same symptoms. Luckily it's under warranty so we figured just get it fixed.
So it's at the dealership for a week and they finally say the tranny is toast and needs replaced. The dealership orders the tranny which takes another week to get in and get replaced. On the tech's test drive it throws the message and grenades the new tranny. So... another new one ordered, takes a few more days and get it replaced really quickly as it's approaching 3 weeks at this point. Everything appears to be normal so we come pick it up. On our way home message pops up, rpm's start to scream and the jeep smells like it's going to explode. So... back it goes. This time they apparently had done some research and found where people were having problem with starters so the dealership hastily replaces the starter and associated wiring and declares it "good to go" and hands it back over.
Well, you guessed it, after picking it up AGAIN this morning, it did the exact same thing. Same message, symptoms, and smell. So... another return we've made. I told the service manager this morning that this vehicle is absolutely unsafe and I won't be taking it back unless he can prove it is fixed. Problem is, I know that's unrealistic, though, how am I suppose to let my wife drive this with our kids in it? I mean, wouldn't let ANYONE I know drive it at this point.
I don't really know where to truly go from here so I figured I'd see if any one here had any really detrimental things such as this occur in association with this message. Any advice, direction, or ideas I can get them to look at from here would be really appreciated. I'm not sure what to do with it as they obviously are too incompetent to find the real problem and fix it, and I just can't trust the vehicle. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading and any advice.
About a month ago my wife's 2006 5.7 Limited (64,000 miles) popped the "trans over temp" message while driving at work. When the message appeared she said the jeep automatically revved up almost to redline, clunked really loud and seemed to lock her into gear so it wouldn't decline at all or downshift when braking. All the while smelling of horrible burning trans fluid. She called me to come look and I drove into town, saw the message and though if I turned it off maybe it will reset. So I turned it off and unlike a lot of the problems associated with this message that I've seen described on the forum it starts right back up minus the message and drives fine. The Jeep drove fine the rest of the day. The following day on her way to drop off the kids it popped the message again with the same symptoms. When she got to her location she turned it off like before and restarted and it was gone. I told her to take it to the dealership to have it looked at. On the way it popped up again with the same symptoms. Luckily it's under warranty so we figured just get it fixed.
So it's at the dealership for a week and they finally say the tranny is toast and needs replaced. The dealership orders the tranny which takes another week to get in and get replaced. On the tech's test drive it throws the message and grenades the new tranny. So... another new one ordered, takes a few more days and get it replaced really quickly as it's approaching 3 weeks at this point. Everything appears to be normal so we come pick it up. On our way home message pops up, rpm's start to scream and the jeep smells like it's going to explode. So... back it goes. This time they apparently had done some research and found where people were having problem with starters so the dealership hastily replaces the starter and associated wiring and declares it "good to go" and hands it back over.
Well, you guessed it, after picking it up AGAIN this morning, it did the exact same thing. Same message, symptoms, and smell. So... another return we've made. I told the service manager this morning that this vehicle is absolutely unsafe and I won't be taking it back unless he can prove it is fixed. Problem is, I know that's unrealistic, though, how am I suppose to let my wife drive this with our kids in it? I mean, wouldn't let ANYONE I know drive it at this point.
I don't really know where to truly go from here so I figured I'd see if any one here had any really detrimental things such as this occur in association with this message. Any advice, direction, or ideas I can get them to look at from here would be really appreciated. I'm not sure what to do with it as they obviously are too incompetent to find the real problem and fix it, and I just can't trust the vehicle. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading and any advice.
