Really? let's use some better terminology, the term glith or glitchy means nothing.
Jeep definitely has "glitchy software" for sure, but at least mine have had to do with the radio/camera and not anything to do with the whole vehicle shutting down. It's not that unusual (although my 2020 is better than my 2019) to get in randomly have no volume, sometimes have a display screen, sometimes not, maybe the backup camera works, or maybe it's just a blue screen. The only way to fix it is to pull over, leave the car and radio on, pull the radio fuse, wait a few seconds, and then put it back in. That reboots the system and get's the radio and camera back online immediately, but generally also makes me lose the climate control functions for 10-15 minutes.
I recently had a momentary power loss...same vehicle as yours. I couldn't replicate it until this past Saturday. I was under the hood hooking up some rock lights. I normally use the Aux wiring and the built in grounding bolts but I wanted an internal switch. When I went to ground it on the negative battery post I found the cable to post connection to be really loose even though the bolt was screwed down as far as it would go. I also noticed it had lifted upwards about 1/4". I replaced the terminal connector and it fit like it's suppose to. I don't know if that could have been your issue but I only have about 10k on my mileage and this connection wasn't right.This is a STRONG WARNING to all Jeep JL owners!
Yeah, unfortunately that flavor of software glitch isn't unusual in cars. Losing car radio functionality sucks, but it's not as big a deal as the other failures being described where the engine shuts off or the brake boost doesn't work or the power steering assist doesn't work or whatever. That's a bit more than a software bug, that's bad system architecture.
it shut off the infotainment like it possibly had a short . It reboots in a few seconds . The doors were always closed and car running just out of nowhere it will do that no warning whatsoever.
I would suspect with a manual you should have more control over the vehicle in terms of either maintaining speed by shifting into neutral or slowing by simply down shifting.
It wouldn't slide into neutral at all? On my JT it slides from drive to neutral without pressing the release button. I've accidentally knocked mine into neutral once or twice...
That is how they are supposed to work when everything else is working correctly. The situation I had apparently activated the “locking” mechanism when the computer system went “haywire” and caused a “jam” at some point and did not allow the selector level to move. With it “locked” (for lack of a better description) in drive and the engine off as in the case at the intersection there was no way to attempt to restart the engine as it must be in park to do so.
Wow. This is super suspicious. The transmission should go into neutral no matter what the computer is doing. This is a safety feature to prevent runaway situations. Remember Toyota and their big class action suit? As for restarting the car, you should be able to do it from neutral but only when the vehicle is stopped. I’ve never owned a car where I couldn’t start it in neutral. With my JT it needs to be stopped though. It sounds like Jeep has some pretty serious questions to answer.
