When the warrantee is gone...

[Lew]

So the vehicle I traded for the Gladiator was a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

We made the last payment and THE NEXT DAY the pcm went mad. starting the car with NOTHING on, the wipers would go on high, the headlights to high beam, the ac to high fan, traction control off, abs warning, check engine light and the battery light.

I set up an appointment with the dealer to have the pcm checked.

The girl asked for the symptoms. I said, " It is possessed by a 2020 demon."
She said no really what are the symptoms, I told her.

She got real quiet and then said, how do you spell possessed?

A pcm and an alternator later I needed the whole harness... chipmunks had eaten it. Traded it!

So when the warrantee is gone,

She is going OLD school.

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[ZTMAN]

Bummer. Warranty would not cover chipmunk damage, but your insurance should.

 

[Oil_Burner]

Bummer. Warranty would not cover chipmunk damage, but your insurance should.

I had a packrat eat the engine temperature sensor wiring on my 3.5L Ford Explorer, which happens to fall under the intake manifold. It does fall under the Comprehensive part of your insurance policy.

 

[Lew]

But it would not have solved the problem in the time frame I had to work with.

You see, this is 2020.

My wife was being moved to 2nd shift the following Monday. I had 6 days to deal with the issue. Regardless of if it would be covered, I needed dependable, reliable transportation for 2. A 2011 car in 2020 has 2 years of designed life left. Yes the cars are designed to be crushed and recycled at 11 years.

Is it really worth playing around with a known electrical gremlins in Maine, in November on a 10 year old car being build in June of 2010..... Nope, cut the losses and move on to better days, oh look, I get to have my Gladiator now, shucky darn.

Either that or wait weeks to have a fix cause the harness is not in stock, only to break down again when its -15° F with a 20 mph wind.....

But the real question here is, if it no longer mattered and you had the time and money (admitting I lacked time with the Cherokee....if it had only happened in JUNE ahhhhh dang it!)

What would you do with the Gladiator or JL or JK when you have it paid off and no longer under warrantee.

Rip out ALL the computers.
Rip out the complete harness.

pick some old work horse diesel cat or cummins and spend some serious time on it to have a 100% mechanical system. The battery is there for the lights and starter....

I am so sick of having a car tell me NO.

I once had a Cat engine I put over 800,000 miles on. it never broke.

The last class 8 truck I had did not make it to 50,000 miles before it had def issues and regen issues.

Or go gas with an old school big block hemi.

do I give up fancy features, sure.

but to just run with no bs.... yea I like the concept.

Maybe a 30 horse perkins Diesel.

My first jeep was a 1956 willeys cj5 with a flat head 4 and a triple stick set up. Top speed was 32 mph. it would go anywhere, just not quickly.

It was stolen in Daytona and never recovered..... I miss that one...

 

[Gvsukids]

Get an extended warranty.

 

[PyrPatriot]

Rip out ALL the computers.
Rip out the complete harness.

pick some old work horse diesel cat or cummins and spend some serious time on it to have a 100% mechanical system. The battery is there for the lights and starter....

I am so sick of having a car tell me NO.

I asked this same type of question here
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/can-you-de-modernize-the-jt.24417/

 

[Klutch]

Get an extended warranty.

Yes. You can buy one at any time. Even from the dealer.

 

[SwampNut]

What would you do with the Gladiator or JL or JK when you have it paid off and no longer under warrantee.

Rip out ALL the computers.
Rip out the complete harness.

No, hell no. Also the chipmunk problem isn't solved by either the extended service agreement nor by replacing the computer and digital harness with an analog harness, which they will eat also.

I put the 7 year 80k mile extended Mopar service on mine, and will probably just trade it for whatever is the hot thing then. The service contract was only $1300, well worth it.

 

[LostWoods]

What would you do with the Gladiator or JL or JK when you have it paid off and no longer under warrantee.

Rip out ALL the computers.
Rip out the complete harness.

pick some old work horse diesel cat or cummins and spend some serious time on it to have a 100% mechanical system. The battery is there for the lights and starter....

Super short-sighted IMO. It's only a matter of time before we end up with federal emissions testing and the new party in power is all about getting green bills passed. Old vehicles and diesels are the low-hanging fruit as far as automotive emissions are concerned.

It would suck to have a truck that can't be registered and can't be sold as anything more than a shell because inspection or not, it's still illegal to modify a federally-certified emissions sytem.

 

[Lew]

what amazes me the most is the fact that everyone has answered in a very cloned mind numbed robotic way.

Did any of you ever consider I was never intending to keep it on the road?

It is as though this is the only use for a truck. If everyone thought this then BIG FOOT would never have been built from a ford truck.

No one ever considered making a monster out of this just for fun?

No one thought, gee a giant blower and throttle body sticking out of the hood would be fun?

How about some smoke stacks for a diesel, FOR FUN.

It was intended to get you thinking of possibilities. Would you do all of them, certainly not, but it is always fun to think about what if we did this or maybe that....oh I know we can fill in the blank.....

This question was asked to have fun, not listen to everyone shill for an extended warrantee and service plan.

I now see the forum and forum members for what it is. Too bad, this could have been a ball.

Lurker mode is now engaged. Have fun shilling for each other.

 

[SwampNut]

That's a hilarious nut response. I love this forum's characters.

 

[Gvsukids]

what amazes me the most is the fact that everyone has answered in a very cloned mind numbed robotic way.

Did any of you ever consider I was never intending to keep it on the road?

It is as though this is the only use for a truck. If everyone thought this then BIG FOOT would never have been built from a ford truck.

No one ever considered making a monster out of this just for fun?

No one thought, gee a giant blower and throttle body sticking out of the hood would be fun?

How about some smoke stacks for a diesel, FOR FUN.

It was intended to get you thinking of possibilities. Would you do all of them, certainly not, but it is always fun to think about what if we did this or maybe that....oh I know we can fill in the blank.....

This question was asked to have fun, not listen to everyone shill for an extended warrantee and service plan.

I now see the forum and forum members for what it is. Too bad, this could have been a ball.

Lurker mode is now engaged. Have fun shilling for each other.

I didn't see anything in the OP about this being a hypothetical question. There's also a sub forum for off-topic posts, maybe if this was posted in there it might have gotten that response.
Sorry people took this seriously, but that's how I also took the OP initially.

 

[Rex3rd]

But it would not have solved the problem in the time frame I had to work with.

You see, this is 2020.

My wife was being moved to 2nd shift the following Monday. I had 6 days to deal with the issue. Regardless of if it would be covered, I needed dependable, reliable transportation for 2. A 2011 car in 2020 has 2 years of designed life left. Yes the cars are designed to be crushed and recycled at 11 years.

Is it really worth playing around with a known electrical gremlins in Maine, in November on a 10 year old car being build in June of 2010..... Nope, cut the losses and move on to better days, oh look, I get to have my Gladiator now, shucky darn.

Either that or wait weeks to have a fix cause the harness is not in stock, only to break down again when its -15° F with a 20 mph wind.....

But the real question here is, if it no longer mattered and you had the time and money (admitting I lacked time with the Cherokee....if it had only happened in JUNE ahhhhh dang it!)

What would you do with the Gladiator or JL or JK when you have it paid off and no longer under warrantee.

Rip out ALL the computers.
Rip out the complete harness.

pick some old work horse diesel cat or cummins and spend some serious time on it to have a 100% mechanical system. The battery is there for the lights and starter....

I am so sick of having a car tell me NO.

I once had a Cat engine I put over 800,000 miles on. it never broke.

The last class 8 truck I had did not make it to 50,000 miles before it had def issues and regen issues.

Or go gas with an old school big block hemi.

do I give up fancy features, sure.

but to just run with no bs.... yea I like the concept.

Maybe a 30 horse perkins Diesel.

My first jeep was a 1956 willeys cj5 with a flat head 4 and a triple stick set up. Top speed was 32 mph. it would go anywhere, just not quickly.

It was stolen in Daytona and never recovered..... I miss that one...

If you wanted less tech why didn't you get the base sport (i see you have a sport s) thats as low on the tech side as u can go

 

[PyrPatriot]

If you wanted less tech why didn't you get the base sport (i see you have a sport s) thats as low on the tech side as u can go

Probably because the tech that would be gotten rid of ideally is fundamental to the Sport and Sport S

 

[Dqban]

sounds like he wants this jeep instead...ls swapped. On craigslist inFlorida

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