Feel your pain, my 21 JTR has been in the shop about 4 combined months, then the garage for 3 more. New PDC, ECM, PCM (?), diff censor, then new rear axle due to another censor failure, both batteries, bunch of wiring issues, codes that won’t clear. Fun times with Chrysler
The only Neon I rode in had the turbo’d 2.0 DOHC engine and a 5 speed. Not sure if it was factory but it would flat out run.Feel your pain, my 21 JTR has been in the shop about 4 combined months, then the garage for 3 more. New PDC, ECM, PCM (?), diff censor, then new rear axle due to another censor failure, both batteries, bunch of wiring issues, codes that won’t clear. Fun times with Chrysler
unfortunately we have a saturated marketplace with mass produced gladiators that are becoming a close runner up to the dodge neon for reliability
Nice looking car though
Did they ever get it fixed?Feel your pain, my 21 JTR has been in the shop about 4 combined months, then the garage for 3 more. New PDC, ECM, PCM (?), diff censor, then new rear axle due to another censor failure, both batteries, bunch of wiring issues, codes that won’t clear. Fun times with Chrysler
unfortunately we have a saturated marketplace with mass produced gladiators that are becoming a close runner up to the dodge neon for reliability
Nice looking car though
Amen!!! I bought a car at auction that had been reverse jump started, I won’t make that mistake again.
Goood. They got the pdm yesterday and waiting to hearYessir! Took a bit, but back on the road…for the time being
They said that 2 parts came in yesterday.. maybe that was the other?
Jump starting doesn't matter a lick if you can see colors. You do it like ANY other vehicle on the road.
It can't matter. They both bolt together and go on the IBS - so what if one is the top or bottom in the stack.
There are 5 fuses in that array, each does something different. Blowing all 5? Even then, the aux battery would power the N1 post which is not fused.
the negative cable flip issue is people think the removed ground by taking the negative off the main battery, “therefore power must be gone now” but they don't separate the two cables. Even techs are dumb enough. Trust me. Also, youd be amazed how many people jump vehicles wrong, lots of Fuse Array failures are because of it, and not because of flipped terminals either, people are really good at attaching one battery, while having the clamp sitting on a ground. Also, for some reason, people jump start from the fuse array, “because they saw a youtube video…” and always do the wrong post.Jump starting doesn't matter a lick if you can see colors. You do it like ANY other vehicle on the road.
If you are stupid and reverse the connections of the cables - you short the batteries. That would mean black clamp on red battery post, red clamp on black battery post? Wow, that takes brains.
You will make crazy sparks because you are shorting the batteries like putting a big strip of copper across both posts. Fireworks.
It can't matter. They both bolt together and go on the IBS - so what if one is the top or bottom in the stack.
I could go out now and remove the grounds and put them on the other way around. Both connect to the top of the IBS.
There are 5 fuses in that array, each does something different. Blowing all 5? Even then, the aux battery would power the N1 post which is not fused.
N7 is alternator output - won't matter.
N3 charges the aux battery - won't matter.
Then there's N5 - the cooling fan
N4 or N6 maybe trigger a no start?
Simple as heck to test! Are those studs hot?
N2 comes from the main battery which powers everything seen here -
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N3 goes out from the bus to charge the aux battery.
He was referring to the negative cables being "flipped" in that in 2020 model year, the main battery ground had the stud and was on the IBS first, then the aux battery cable was attached to that cable on its stud.
