This has happened twice now in 3 days. after fully filling my fuel tank and then driving away from the pump my jeep patriot stalls before i hit 3/10 of a mile from the gas station. contrary to some other reports of this issue, that i have read, as well as the explanation of the issue posted on the nhtsa website, from fca, this does not happen only at idle. rather it happens while i am driving. when my jeep stalls i also lose the ability to fully steer (can only turn the wheel appx 1/4 turn) and braking does not work as well as it normally does. when it happened today i ended up mounting a curb and sidewalk in a residential area. the street i was on was turning but i couldn't turn with it. if i had not engaged the emergency/parking brake i would have driven through a chain link fence and into a home. once i restarted my jeep and backed off of the curb the engine stalled again while my jeep was in motion. luckily i was barely moving and already had my hand on the emergency/parking brake. when i restarted my jeep the next time i revved the engine to 3,000rpm for appx 1 minute while my jeep was in park. my jeep did not stall after that for the rest of today. tomorrow may be another story. i see in this form there is the ability to upload photos but i did not know about this being an existing safety issue or the ability to report it before now. as a result there are no photos of my jeep on a curb about to crash into someone's house. with the number of reports of this issue having already been made to the nhtsa i am shocked that a mandatory safety recall was not demanded.
Every single time i fill up the tank, it runs a very short distance from the gas station and starts to buck and jolt like it wants to shut off. when the car stalls out, the steering wheel locks up and the brakes lose power. very dangerous!
Going to town driving between 45mph and 50mph and the front tires stop turning and skid to a stop. therefore causing my head face to strike the steering well resulting in a bleeding nose and a bruised chest. *tr