Doom And Gloom vs Reality

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I'm 84,000 miles in. Have a 1.5" leveling kit and running 35's. About 40,000 miles had some corrosion on the door hinges which dealership took care of. I now notice another hinge has corrosion. If it didn't point it out no one would probably notice. Seems to be contained to the hinge for now.
Around 50,000 a stability control error warning would come on. Took to my independent shop. Not sure what they did but hasn't come back on.

Main battery just died about 2 weeks ago.

That has been it. Really no more issues than any other truck I've own.

Also my ESS had never really worked. Not sure why but I'm not complaining. Sometimes it will work but probably 85% of the time I'm driving it doesn't work. I actually consider that a win.

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[CKayaks]

I expect the main to go...no OEM installed battery lasts very long.

Don't know about that. I just replaced the OEM battery in my 2018 Ram 2500. Can't complain about 7 years! Hope to get the same legs from my Gladiator's!

 

[Gvsukids]

Some guys at work said when you plug a trailer light system into a truck the start/stop doesn’t work. They said some people put an adapter in light plug in to keep the start/stop from working.

Is that true? Can someone shed some light on this?

There's a button that will turn off the ESS too. Then there's a Tazer, or jscan.
If you worry too much, you won't enjoy the truck. If you have problems, and you have warranty left, take the Jeep to the dealership and have them fix it.

I view the Jeep as a daily-driver-off-road-tool that, at 104000 miles, it still cleans up like new for a parade. Yesterday, a person was shocked at the age and miles. The Jeep has had issues, but most were fixed under warranty. The Jeep runs and drives great. Performs very well off-road, and if there will be a repair, we take it in and have it fixed.
Have money in the bank for repairs.

 

[TheGrendel]

55K on my 2023. For the most part, its been trouble free. Aux battery went out early. I have a slight leak in my rear axle. Going to have that looked at. It's not a perfect truck. It's not a perfect offroader. But, it does lots of stuff pretty well.

 

[Chasm]

no OEM installed battery lasts very long

My Dakota lasted 14 years and just started to slow down when I replaced it. (I was so used to the truck that my key turn was "mechanical", and the first time my normal timing didn't start the truck I started pricing batteries)

My Challenger was noticeably failing at 2. Same thing though. Still started fine, just had to hold the button a little longer. I let that one go another six months to change it right before winter.

I didn't know about the extra battery in the jeep until I had the hood up to plan hooking up a subwoofer and saw the tag. Now I dread the failure, but don't want to make any major changes on a brand new truck while it's still working.

 

[Chasm]

Also my ESS had never really worked. Not sure why but I'm not complaining. Sometimes it will work but probably 85% of the time I'm driving it doesn't work. I actually consider that a win.

One factor is how hard you hold on the brakes. Before I got a good habit of turning it off, the main place it would "remind" me is a stop sign on a hill when I'm almost all the way to work.

 

[Chasm]

Some guys at work said when you plug a trailer light system into a truck the start/stop doesn’t work. They said some people put an adapter in light plug in to keep the start/stop from working.

Someone on here said that they tested and it does not work on their 24. I would assume 25 is the same.

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