2015 Jeep Renegade · symptom sheet
Transmission shudders, slips or shifts hard
- 62owner reports
- 40,000median miles
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Jul 2, 2024 · checked Oct 2, 2026
170 of the 511 complaints on this car are about the transmission and drivetrain. 62 of those describe transmission shudder. Only stalling is reported more often on this car.
Narrower sheets: Transmission jerks, lurches or bangs into gear (37 reports)
Tick what matches of 62 reports
Transmission shudder on other Renegade years
Report counts are for each model year on its own, so a newer car has had less time to collect them. Model years with too few reports of it for a sheet: 2016, 2018.
What this problem usually is
This is the biggest drivetrain group on the site: a transmission that shudders, slips, hesitates or bangs into gear. It's the everyday version of transmission trouble, where the car still drives but doesn't drive right, and it has three narrower sheets of its own for jerking, hesitation and slipping.
What got replaced
Owners who name the part that was replaced mention the transmission (4 reports).
Recalls and investigations
One recall on the transmission and drivetrain covers the 2015 model year. A recall on the same system isn't always the same failure, so read the defect text.
The transmission sensor clusters may have insufficient crimps in the transmission wire harness, and as a result, the transmission may unexpectedly shift to neutral.
All 4 recalls on the 2015 Jeep Renegade, with the owner complaints on each recalled system
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 16,590 and 55,000 miles, from the 56 reports that gave a mileage.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 3 service bulletins or notices for the 2015 Jeep Renegade that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
Gear Ratio DTC?s, Transmission Shift Concerns, Does Not Shift At Times, Shudders
JEEP: LATEST SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE TO BE REPROGRAMMED FOR TRANSMISSION CONTROL MODULE (TCM) DUE TO MALFUNCTION INDICATOR LAMP (MIL) BEING ON AND HAVING A HARSH SHIFTING OR TO UNABLE ENGAGED GEARS OF TRANSMISSION. MODEL 2015 RENEGADE. *PE
Flash: Transmission Shift And Drivability Enhancements This bulletin involves reprogramming the Transmission Control Module (TCM) with the latest available software.
What owners wrote
“The vehicle on multiple occasions is shifting very hard mostly in between first and second gear, and sometimes third. The vehicle jerks forward like it had been hit from the back. It has also quit moving even though it was still running on a couple of occasions. it feels as if itâs going into neutral and then back into gear.”
Filed Oct 27, 2023
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 62 reports involved a crash. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
Guide Paid for this repair before a recall covered it? How recall reimbursement works
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