If you’re in the market for a Jeep Renegade, it looks like you won’t have a problem buying one from a dealer now, despite what Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne might have us believe.
According to Automotive News, the software problem affecting the Jeep Renegade was within FCA, not with the car. Their source said an issue with the identification numbers on roughly 20 affected vehicles could’ve made it difficult to get them registered, which is why the Renegades were being held. Those vehicles should be headed to dealerships this week, according to the same report. .
It’s still unclear, however, why Marchionne made a comment about having,” a very bad engineering day,” on May 19 in reference to the Renegade and its mechanical sibling, the Fiat 500X. That led many people, myself included, to wonder if the Renegade had a transmission software update coming. Chrysler declined to comment on the matter when Carscoops asked on May 20. After all, Marchionne also said this:
“It’s a combination of attributes of that vehicle that is making my life horrible.”
A previous headache for Marchionne was when Chrysler held cars to fix a software glitch was in the launch of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, where thousands of vehicles were stockpiled by the company to sort out problems with its 9-speed automatic before even the press drove them. The Renegade and 500X use the same 2.4-liter four and 9-speed automatic offered in the affected Cherokee.
But it looks like, for now at least, a transmission glitch isn’t one of the reasons you can’t go buy a Jeep Renegade now.
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