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Some vehicles now will idle for an hour and shut off after an hour (unless you tell it). I believe the trigger is opening the driver door.
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Most vehicles are fine sitting idling. There are a few that have oiling issues at idle and long idling will eat them up. I have not heard that issue with Gladiators.

We had a member that was a wind turbine guy. He escorted the turbines to the location and lived out of his truck in the cold north. His truck ran almost 24/7 for heat during the winter.

It consumed very little fuel in idle, and at the end of his first year, he already had 100,000 miles on the vehicle, with only regular scheduled maintenance.
 

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don't let the wife take the Glady anymore. Problem solved!
I've made mine hard to climb into and have unexplainable shakes and wobbles around 40 mph so it was a self healing problem
 

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dont see an issue at all. Look at it this way, the wear and tear of idle for 3 hours would be less than 3 hours of driving.
 

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I'm sure 8 hours of offroading is worse
 

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This is starting to be fun in Germany.
It used to be normal. Wake up, go out to the car, start it and let it idle while you make a coffee and then start getting the snow off of it.
Of course, they made idling your vehicle illegal, ;) Germany. Ranging from e few €€ on public roads (is a small violation in part founded in the traffic law) to €€€€€ if you do it on your private property, they then go after you for pollution :LOL:
So you get fined if a cop is in a bad mood and sees you start your car and get out and de-ice it... thats why remote start etc is all illegal. Now if it was only that, I would be like hey whatever.
But...
Germany used to love (and many still do love) their diesels. Cold diesels going straight onto the Autobahn is a no no, so people would let their engines warm up before going to work etc. taking that on ramp and needing to merge into some nice fast traffic. Many love their cars more and rather pay a fine.
So what happened is they started a campaign where the car experts, ADAC (AAA equivalent with added testing facilities, insurance and some legal advice for members etc), and car magazines, as well as governmental notices are now telling everyone they are breaking their engines by idling them😈:rock:🤫 Gotta love it.
I have a large PDF file of locations in the U.S. that prohibit idling. It's mostly aimed at trucks, diesel engines, buses, and that sort of thing but some of it is aimed at the consumer-level auto and light truck.
In more than one place, leaving your car idling warming up for over x minutes is illegal and some cities have bans on idling under other circumstances. It makes sense, IMO.

Before I met my wife - when she lived in an apartment with open-lot parking, she used to get up in the night and start her car and let it idle for a while then shut it off. When it's 0 degrees (F) vehicles with carburetors could be a bit cranky in the winter. They'd argue and not want to start.

I feel sort of a connection to Germany in a way - as a child I had a pen pal who was a German lady, then my first wife was a Hafermann, and my current wife is a Hoch.
 

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I need to retry my driveaway the already running JT without the key test, since I've had a couple of software updates.
Last time it would let me go with no issues.
 

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don't let the wife take the Glady anymore. Problem solved!
But it's a problem with many modern vehicles including her own Grand Cherokee
 

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Tazer allows you to disable that.
Why? Most of us appreciate it save for a small handful that complain about simple stuff. I'm glad for the reminder and know and understand why it's there.
 

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Why? Most of us appreciate it save for a small handful that complain about simple stuff. I'm glad for the reminder and know and understand why it's there.
I appreciate all the features on my jeep. Plus i have learned complaining doesn't fix anything.Some people could use a lesson on how to properly use active features that have been on cars for years instead of complaining about the passive ones. Like turn signals!!
 

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I have a 21 and never disabled the horn while walking away. I keep my fob clipped on my waist all the time, and i'll get out and go do things while letting it idle. Never had the horn go off. It does ding on the dash and display a message about the fob leaving the vehicle though.

Idk how it would be with extended idling in the diesel JT, but i've had my diesel idle for a about 7 hours without any issues. I've had the Liberty idle many many times for over 12 hours
 

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I have a 21 and never disabled the horn while walking away. I keep my fob clipped on my waist all the time, and i'll get out and go do things while letting it idle. Never had the horn go off. It does ding on the dash and display a message about the fob leaving the vehicle though.
Do you close the door? The operation I've seen most often is that what you describe happens if you get out and leave the door open, but once you close the door it does the honking.
 

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Do you close the door? The operation I've seen most often is that what you describe happens if you get out and leave the door open, but once you close the door it does the honking.
Yup. Exactly.
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