2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Consumer Reviews
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2023 GC Overlander
I have been leasing Jeep GC for over 30 years, so I am on my 11th or 12th Jeep GC. This is the first Jeep GC Overlander 4xe. Not sure I would get another EV. The engine is peppy but obnoxiously noisy. When accelerating, the engine often sounds like it has no engine oil. Its transmission is "jerky" when slowing down to about 10 MPH then accelerating back up. The auto parking brake has a mind of its own. Sometimes its actives and sometimes its doesn't. The additional weight makes exit ramp turns feel sluggish and feel less nimble. The display when in split screen mode, will not allow you to adjust the map size. Also, the maps car icons are too big. It can be misleading looking at the map when approaching a turn, all my jeep have had this issue too. The rear wiper is about two inches too small for the rear window. The A/C seems to take a long time to cool the car down on real hot days. I tried turning off the auto braking but I cant seem to get it to turn off. The door panel design offers no protection from door dings. I have two already in just a few months. Hopefully Jeeps engineers will improve on some of these items, I guess I will see in two years.
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Beta Released Abomination
We thought we were buying innovation with the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe—a luxurious, eco-friendly powerhouse ready for adventure. Instead, we got a 5,000-pound paperweight that spends more time at the dealership than in our driveway. Transmission Troubles? Check. First came the leaking transmission pan, followed by a full transmission replacement that left us carless for over 45 days. Charging Woes? Naturally. After multiple trips to address charging issues, they finally replaced the charging module. Add another 10 days of downtime. Leaking Gaskets? Why Not? The rear drive gasket decided to join the party, sidelining our car for another 2 days. Save yourself the trouble and get a bike—you’ll spend less time walking to work.
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Favorite All-rounder Vehicle
This Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Overland has been probably my favorite vehicle that I've owned in my young adult life. I've owned older Lexus, Infiniti, and Lincoln cars, as well as a recent Audi A6 with the supercharged V6, Mercedes CLA250, Volkswagen Tiguan, and had access to other Volkswagen, Lexus, and Toyota cars. The Audi A6 was my previous favorite and I'd have to put this Jeep on par with that Audi A6 actually. In my nearly year of owning this Jeep, I've surprisingly had no warranty issues and no major recalls. All of the other new cars and lightly (~3 years old) used cars I've owned have had SOMETHING wrong in the first year of ownership, like sticking fuel door or rattling heat shield or underbody panel. In general this is a do-everything vehicle. I use it as a daily commuter for going to work, I use it to run errands on the weekend, I use it to carry my dog (with seat covers in the back!) to the vet, park, or road trip, I use it to haul new furniture or materials home. It's worked great for all of those purposes. It feels big to drive at first but it is easy to handle, it doesn't feel like a lumbering heavy giant when cornering. The 360 cameras and parking sensors make this easy to parallel park downtown. This has one of the best/most lenient adaptive cruise control with steering assist that I've used. The steering assist only requires you to lightly touch the wheel somewhere to remain active. The Audi A6 and VW Tiguan I've owned that had these features, the adaptive cruise control worked great but you had to have a death grip on the wheel for the steering assist to stay active. The Audi A6 was a little more accurate than this Jeep at staying centered in its lane without feeling like you're riding closer to one of the lines in more scenarios though. It's very comfortable in the city and on the highway, it does ride more like a "truck" compared to the traditional sedans and VW Tiguan I've owned but the air suspension seems to help soften it up a bit. Being able to drive through 6+" of snow is definitely nice and new to me. The seats are comfortable, just the right amount of firmness to be supportive, but still soft, you don't feel like you're sitting on the hard frame of the seat and my legs don't go numb after marathoning a 4 hour drive on a road trip. The interior quality is great with a lot of soft touch materials, the leather seats particularly feel great. The heated/ventilated seats and heated wheel work incredibly fast, this isn't my first car to have those functions but this is definitely the fastest working heated seats and wheel I've had, and the ventilated seats actually blow COLD air, not just ambient air or a trickle of air flow. Love the ventilated seats on a hot day. The fuel economy as advertised seems underrated. The 18 city/25 highway is basically what I get if I switch the hybrid drive mode to Charge so the gas motor runs and charges the battery and the electric motor does not run. I seem to get closer to 27-28 highway on those 4 hour or so road trips if I leave the drive mode in Hybrid mode which does include the battery being fully charged at the start but no charging until I'm at my destination. 26 miles of full electric range seems to be accurate for me, plenty to get errands done around the city. And I can just charge it on a normal 120V outlet overnight. For such a big heavy vehicle, that is impressive. Even the power/acceleration is impressive. Throw it in sport mode and the acceleration feels insane for how heavy this vehicle is. 0-60 mph in the low 5 second range. Sorry V8 fans but this is the superior powertrain. And that is repeatable regardless of the battery level, it seems there's always some amount of battery reserved for acceleration when demanded by the accelerator pedal. As long as the electric motor doesn't get too hot from constant acceleration/deceleration cycles with re-gen braking on a very hot day. I only have a few basic negatives for this vehicle: 1. The infotainment software could be faster. It's relatively easy to use but sometimes there are delays when going to certain pages. Startup time for the infotainment is kinda slow too. 2. The heated wheel needs more than an on/off setting. It needs 3 stages like the seats. The wheel gets HOT if you leave it on even on the coldest winter day. 3. The 2.0L turbo 4 cylinder gas engine is not particularly refined, it doesn't sound the greatest. The German automakers definitely have an edge with all of their 2.0L turbo 4 cylinders. 4. And I wish the re-gen braking were a bit better in a couple ways. I wish it would take the vehicle to a complete stop. It does significantly slow the vehicle so you don't need to use the actual brake pedal until you're about to stop, which gives you a boost to battery usage. Maybe the electric motor isn't strong enough to hold this heavy vehicle and they don't want you to depend on it to hold it at a stop sign or stop light? I don't know. And I wish the vehicle warned you if re-gen braking wasn't going to be applied, if you're going up and down hills repeatedly and it's hot outside, I assume the electric motor gets hot so it doesn't accelerate as much and doesn't apply re-gen braking. It's strange to have the braking behavior change significantly suddenly without warning. You can kind of see when re-gen braking isn't working in the meters on the left side of the driver's screen, it shows power flow out of the gas motor, power flow out of the electric motor, and power flow in the electric motor/battery (because the gas motor is charging it or because of re-gen braking) but you have to be paying attention to that.
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Love hate relationship
I bought my jeep in March of 2023 after the first month I was left hopeless like a bad break up no calls no text lol my jeep decided not to turn on for my 0500am work time , mind you it was fully charged and topped up with gas . What do I tell my boss? But anyway onto more good news , since I’ve had my jeep for the past 8 months I’ve had to visit the dealership 11 times ( and I’m not exaggerating) , from electrical issues to cosmetic issues …. But I love the jeep tho , make I just like toxic things who knows .
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Nothing but problems
I loved driving this car it had plenty of power and was very comfortable. In the 1st 1.5 years, it had 5 recalls. The final straw was taking it in for non working electric seat. This was a nightmare. After replacing parts 2-3 times, a code kept coming up on the dash. The dealer had it for over 3 months and the geniuses at Stellantis couldn't figure out how to clear the code. I finally gave up any hope and confidence in this car and traded it in. Now to put salt in an open wound, these 4xe lose 1/2 their value in 1.5 years. Stellantis should start from scratch and buy all of these back.
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