Keep Smiling All

I nearly bought a 2001 model Cheerokee because they had a nice shape etc. But I researched they “Chewed” out Brakes and “Inferior” Rotors. Jeep knew about this for years and “Never gave a Stuff” about any complaints.

Some people refuse to Install LPG into Jeeps, as they are so Dangerous. I know this for fact.

Like they dont Give a Stuff about Jeeps “Bursting into Flames” either.

They are Death Traps. I Warn You Now, if You are trapped when they catch fire or You are stuck in a Creek / River crossing, keep a Small sledge hammer in the Car
( to Break Glass ) as the windows will “Lock Up” as soon as Power from engine stops.

I will suggest to You, and I have seen this done, either Get Together, All of You who have a Complaint and Put signs (Like “Do Not Buy This Jeep Rubbish” ) or other language Not too Obsene… etc, on Your cars at the Busiest times the Jeep dealers are Open and Go find a lovely “Legal” spot to park out the front of their Business or as close as possible to it. Stay on the Road or public land. ((Do Not go on their Premises for Your Protest!)) “Quietly protest. Do Not start any trouble.”

And place Highly visible “Angry with Jeep” signs next to Your car, voicing Your concern. When you do this…make an Anonomys phone call to the Media about the “Protest” and be Sure to place a sign for the Media, that Clearly reads…”Jeep Warranties, Are Worthless” ! (Arrange for An Independant person to Video or tape any Confrontation, from Jeep or their Dealers).

Then sit back and watch Jeep lift their game, as this will “Kill their sales Over night.”

It is “People Power” not the Individual, who will beat these Idiots at their “Holier than thou” game. You All Deserve Respect! You, keep them Moron’s in a Job! Remind them of That !

I personally like Landrovers, excluding the Freelander, but even LandRover has it’s share of Morons at the Top and (In Dealerships), who “STEAL” your money for a Living.

So I hope I have Empowered You All. I am Not a Lawyer, but I am a Four Wheel Driver who would never take the “BulldS..t these Moron’s give Us…without a fight. And they would Lose with me, I don’t Give Up! ever, even If I have to get Nasty!

Good Luck to You All. I wish I could help you All, but it would cost too much.

Cheers, Lee.
Stay Safe, All.

oh, the window lock on my 1996 cherokee has just started locking the windows up or down on all of its own…but I love my Jeep…

I am VERY glad I found this site, it has been a real eye opener, needless to say that I will rather opt for the RAV4.

Good luck to all the JEEP owners out there.

Tomorrow is the cars final day of warranty!! – it is also the SIXTH business day that it will have spent, consecutively, sitting in a jeep workshop being pulled to pieces to try and establish what the @@#$% is wrong with it this time.

It spent 6 WEEKS off the road over the Christmas period. It dropped its clutch day before Christmas…the clutch kit had to be ordered from Singapore-that took 3 weeks. When it arrived, it was installed, only to discover the car sounded dreadful-reason being the INCORRECT part number had been ordered and installed, so it all had to come apart again.Luckily this time though another dealer had the required part so it didn’t have to come from Singapore. When the car was reassembled, it was even worse-jeep themselves nominated to then dissassemble the whole transmission….they found some damaged parts and reassembled it-to find the car was even worse! So the transmission came out again, but before pulling it to bits they took a 2nd look at the clutch assembly and decided it was the flywheel that had caused the whole drama-this seemed to fix things! By 6 weeks I was beside myself-my car is my office, the inconvenience and stress resulting was just too much.

2 months later the car was off the road again-and needed 2 injectors replaced. The car was stuffed around with for 2-3 days whilst they tried to assess the real problem.

2 months later -it started playing up-yet another seemingly fuel related problem (or lack of rather!)-my apologies to all those stuck behind my car doing 40kph crossing the harbour bridge 3 weeks ago! I was told the car needed after 2 days of stuffing around with it, a new fuel solenoid-you guessed it, from Singapore! That arrived fairly quickly but after installation, the car was 10 times worse. So another 3 days of pulling it to bits-all the injectors have been removed, they’ve tested just EVERYTHING and just can’t figure out what the f’g problem is. Tomrrow it will have its’ computer tested -if it needs a new one, that’ll have to come from Singapore….and you’ll all be invited to my funeral because that’s about where I am at with this f’g lemon!

IF ANYBODY KNOWS HOW ONE GOES ABOUT SEEKING TO HAVE THE CAR REPLACED/REFUNDED…. please let me know pronto!
If you know any legal folk who have handled such cases before I would like their contact details please.

Thanks!!
oh-and no the problem is not the oil!!!!!! (ignorant little so and so!)

As for the brakes, no problems there, but I do go through a set of tyres every 20,000kms. These are not cheap tyres either, the last pair were Pirellis, and I have had them replaced with Toyo’s for another $1200 so hopefully they will last until I can finally unload my expensive mistake.

FYI – Fuel consumption 19lt/100km Tested by Jeep, all fine

Tyres $1200 per year

Last Service $1100 – in which they changed fluids and not much else…

Not owning a Jeep Cherokee – PRICELESS!

Anyone else had this happen, or is mine a one off?

Getting really worried vhen reading about your problems! I have a great wrangler 4.0 litres with manual gearbox, the idea is to buy a crd cherokee with aut.gears, but now you have made me worried..

I have in the past week spoken to 4 Jeep owners, 3 owners of Diesel KJ’s-NONE have had ANY problems. MINE however has been to Scuderia so many times they know my voice as soon as I say hello on the phone!

Two problems keep recurring and I would definitely like to hear from others if they’ve had these problems because no doubt it can save the dealership a lot of trouble if we can simply pinpoint what the fault is-I’m sick of bothering them and feel bad when I do (mainly cos they always wash my car!!) and I’m sick of having to borrow my dad’s spare bomb when the car’s at Jeep.

problem i)
since early days the car has this fault where just out of the blue, seemingly only on holiday and important trips, it starts to slow and lose power as if it’s running out of fuel…and slowly slows and stops/konks out, and wont start. IF however this occurs and you just stop, turn off the engine and restart it, it resets the computer and away you go for another 6 months or so until it does it out of the blue again. After a “software upgrade” the problem went away for almost 12 months…..now it’s back again.

ii) Turbo hoses-f’g inconvenient when it blows because the car needs to be towed! I’ve had 2 hoses go in 12 months and when they go they really shit themselves.

I can’t imagine why a car would do this? anyone know what causes it? shitty cheap hoses? can it do damage to the car as a result? (it sure doesn’t run too well without the hose!!).

NOTE: Yorke Motors are DODGY!! – the car got towed there and I mentioned a rattle, the traditional diesel “niggernigger” noise was really loud and sounded funny. They decided it was low on oil-I said that’s ridiculous it’s a new car and shouldn’t need oil. They gave the car back, serviced ($900!) and said yes the oil was low but they replaced the filter etc etc. Well how come when I got home the dipstick was black??!! Female I may be, stupid I’m not!
Oh yeh-they also told me the discs needed machining and new brakes-the car had only just 16 weeks prior had brakes fitted and the discs machined-when I then got new tyres a couple of weeks later, I made the guys take off the rear covers so we could inspect all discs-they were as smooth as a babies bum!! They did NOT need machining at all.I shan’t be going to Yorke motors ever again!

brakes: rotors-mine went through them quickly too but I drive like a loony and do a lot of km’s and holidays are usually to the Outback, have only just begun to notice some shudder in recent weeks, since replacing and machining the brakes-prior to that there was none. Was surprised that they needed machining so soon.

The car has always blown a bit of smoke at times. Also have a recent problem of the car shutting down a cylinder and thus LOUSY fuel economy…this has happened twice and this time, 2nd in 2 months, I’ve decided the car’s a Lemon I want the car replaced! or something MAJOR

On a positive note the staff at Scuderia, Chatswood, are brilliant-never the slightest indication they don’t want to hear from me and when the nigger-nigger noise was apparent to them, they pulled the car to pieces, eager to create a happy cusomer-was all their idea and their cost, they always clean the car beautifully,car always needs to go back again for yet another porblem but it all seems to be weird electrical faults so at this point I’m sure they are pretty good-it’s the car that’s the problem!

I’ve owned the car for 20 months-it’s about to go to Jeep for it’s 9th visit (incl 2 nominated services). On average that’s a visit with a problem every 2.8 months since purchase. This car I can’t believe will be reliable for me to feel assured it can do what I intended it to ie; go around Australia, or even halfway….10% of the way maybe?????????????????
I want what I thought I was paying for – a RELIABLE car-not this one!!
feedback anyone???

With little over 2200k’s I have traded it in for a new Toyota Rav4. I know the Rav4 is not as capable as the Cherokee but the build quality issues and the auto starting to jump left me with no confidence. So far the Toyota has been fault less and not one squeak. I wish you all the best of luck,

How are you going with the paint issues, Ill agree mine is a little rough in hidden places.

The finish underside is not good but is better now that I got under there and fixed it myself.

Front brake rotors still wearing but does seem to have slowed down. I noticed on a Mercedes sports car the other the exact same issue that we notice on the KJ front rotors, and the merc was only a little 1.8 litre jobbie.

So on my 2.8l CRD cherokee i have 12,500 klms in nearly 6 months, have decided she absolutely hates BP diesel and most standard diesel fuels except the GULL BIOD, purs like a kitten on this stuff and doesnt blow anywhere as much smoke. I decided to try the BIOD because the car is shipped from the US with B5 in the tank and BIOD is B20.

Apparently it keeps the sensors (boost sensor) another bits clean. The result Jerks and funny function almost entirely gone, i notice no difference in power or consumption. The last remaining twitch is only sometimes there after a really hard acceleration, its like when you back off the computers are trying to work out whether or not to engage the lock up in the gear box, its only slight and occasional now though.

Anyway the CRD is in for a late 10,000k service in a week so lets see what the dealers come up with.

On the body of the car there are no loose bits or anything like that but the sun roof rubber needs replacing as its not sealing quite right, leaks air, also leaking a bit of air around those crazy little rubber window seperators on the back doors.

Apart from that shes mostly good. Great fun up and down the beaches north of perth (green head) and is towing beautifully.

I hope all the other issues others are experiencing can be fixed. It really would nice if DC took the bull by the horns and just fixed all the issues people mention, they are really doing themselves a tremendous disservice letting the dealers fob the customers off. Sort of reminds me when Chrysler went south in the 80’s when Mitsubishi came into the picture.

Kind Regards
Jon

At least now I don’t feel like the only one with a dud jeep kj cherokee. (you’ll notice no caps on the name of the car, I wouldn’t dignify cherokee with capital letters, the car’s nickname is “JUNK” and it is the family joke: “what went wrong with the jeep this week”) JUNK is a MY05 KJ Limited Diesel 2.7CRD purchased in 06/05

Here is the latest list of problems

1. rear tailgate squeaked since new. Dealer attempted repair three times. Finally “fixed” except it made the door so hard to open it needed both hands and a pull so hard it nearly dislocated my shoulder. Now I can open the door normally again…but it squeaks.
2. Now on its third battery after original and second batteries suffered “complete catastrophic failure” (dealers words)
3. Blew a turbo hose during a 600km interstate trip (at about 40,000km
4. Wing mirrors loose and wiggly
5. Permanently blows smoke under load, even after service.
6. quickly overheats when going up hills, on sand, on dirt, when towing. On (hard) sand, we found we could get the needle down to the 3/4 mark by turning off the aircon which is really great in a 35 degree queensland summers day.
7. Spent 2000km in second gear whilst stuck in second gear during a recent trip to Goondiwindi, Bourke, Cunumulla, Charleville, Chinchilla. Maximum speed had to be limited to 90km/h to keep engine revs below 2000rp/m. This problem has been attempted to be fixed four times by the dealer after being variously told by them it was (a) a loose wire (b) mud (c) electrical problem (d) valve housing something or other that had to be flown in from germany and that I should disconnect the battery and wait 1/2 an hour and it would fix itself.
This problem seems to be fixed for the time being.
8. just yeterday morning the hadbrake and abs lights stayed on for a ten minute drive but went off later after switching off the engine for 5 mins.
9. Driving from Bourke to Cunumulla, we rang Mondial Roadside assist on the advice of the dealer and were told that if the car broke down then and there we would be towed to Dubbo. Dubbo was about 600 km’s south of us and about 1000km’s south of our destination. No mention of what our trailer, my wife or our two dogs were supposed to do in Dubbo.

I am currently in discussions with Jeep about some sort of extension to the warranty, but believe me I’ll never buy another Jeep again. I’ve had three fantastic Patrol’s with nary a squeek and rue the day I ever set foot in a Jeep dealership.

Good Luck

I would appriacted any ideas or comments on this car, i didnt read this forum before buying and am starting to regret it.

Cheers,
Dan

Due to Christmas / New Year etc Customer Services called and said will meet the regional manager at the dealership to look at paint issues. I have not had chance to look at other Cherokees but do most have bad paint inside doors and on plastic wheel arch covers? the paint has the appearance of being badly sprayed..

Once the issues have been resolved will hopefully start enjoying the car..

You might like to try http://www.aussiejeepoffroad.com.au, lots of good info there.

Hi Qwerty99, how are you going with your Jeep, are you having fun yet?

cheers
Jon