Hi.
New-ish owner here. Had the thing one year so far. 2014 Overland diesel, not quite 70,000 on it.
Have had a few issues with it, what I'm looking for are tech tricks to deal with potential failures. Basically anything that might make the thing decide to just shut down and refuse to play.
Bought 9/2017. Ran fine for the next 3 months. Hit the coldest day of the year, about -5 F, it dropped dead in my driveway after warning of "battery protection mode" and "Air suspension maintenance" the night before. Dealership had it 10 days, solved nothing. I'd thought bad alternator, dealership's opinion was air suspension valve had frozen, causing compressor to get stuck running when parked, killing battery. I asked dealership guy, if it is known that these things do this, does Chrysler have a plan in the works to deal with it? Having a jeep that drops dead when it's cold kind of defeats the purpose of a jeep. It's a $50,000 truck, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the thing to be able to tolerate temps down to -20 or so.
Dealer said, "No." Chrysler case manager gave me a weak, lame, "Sometimes cars don't quite work right when it's really cold." Bullshit. My rusted-out 2000 GC started immediately under the same conditions.
I did my homework, apparently flawed design, sealed system, but will periodically top itself up with plain air, introducing moisture, giving rise to frozen valve, overheated compressor and dead battery.
Weather warmed up, problem did not repeat. My temporary workaround is to use "Jack mode" to disable the suspension anytime I park it when the temps drop below 10 F or so in the hopes of preventing it from killing the battery.
First question, is there a way to manually disable the suspension during driving, so that if it freezes again, it isn't frying the compressor while I'm driving it?
2nd issue: Exhaust system regen... it gave me "Regen in progress keep driving" twice in 6 months which included lots of idling over the winter. Lately, it did it 3 times through a single tank of fuel, in late summer, with nearly zero prolonged idling. I've heard lousy fuel can cause this, and it may stop recurring after this fuel is done.
However given all the reports of regen failures, I want to have both the ability to manually trip a regen, and clear the latched state if it ever gives me "XX miles till vehicle will not restart"
2nd question: Scangauge- says it can clear codes. If the emissions system malfunctions and gives, for instance, a false read of clogged DPF, will a scangauge at least temporarily allow the vehicle to be restarted?
3rd question, which scan tools will give me manual regen ability? I know the dealership's "Starscan" can, but those are $5k. Anyone else get into this stuff?
New-ish owner here. Had the thing one year so far. 2014 Overland diesel, not quite 70,000 on it.
Have had a few issues with it, what I'm looking for are tech tricks to deal with potential failures. Basically anything that might make the thing decide to just shut down and refuse to play.
Bought 9/2017. Ran fine for the next 3 months. Hit the coldest day of the year, about -5 F, it dropped dead in my driveway after warning of "battery protection mode" and "Air suspension maintenance" the night before. Dealership had it 10 days, solved nothing. I'd thought bad alternator, dealership's opinion was air suspension valve had frozen, causing compressor to get stuck running when parked, killing battery. I asked dealership guy, if it is known that these things do this, does Chrysler have a plan in the works to deal with it? Having a jeep that drops dead when it's cold kind of defeats the purpose of a jeep. It's a $50,000 truck, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the thing to be able to tolerate temps down to -20 or so.
Dealer said, "No." Chrysler case manager gave me a weak, lame, "Sometimes cars don't quite work right when it's really cold." Bullshit. My rusted-out 2000 GC started immediately under the same conditions.
I did my homework, apparently flawed design, sealed system, but will periodically top itself up with plain air, introducing moisture, giving rise to frozen valve, overheated compressor and dead battery.
Weather warmed up, problem did not repeat. My temporary workaround is to use "Jack mode" to disable the suspension anytime I park it when the temps drop below 10 F or so in the hopes of preventing it from killing the battery.
First question, is there a way to manually disable the suspension during driving, so that if it freezes again, it isn't frying the compressor while I'm driving it?
2nd issue: Exhaust system regen... it gave me "Regen in progress keep driving" twice in 6 months which included lots of idling over the winter. Lately, it did it 3 times through a single tank of fuel, in late summer, with nearly zero prolonged idling. I've heard lousy fuel can cause this, and it may stop recurring after this fuel is done.
However given all the reports of regen failures, I want to have both the ability to manually trip a regen, and clear the latched state if it ever gives me "XX miles till vehicle will not restart"
2nd question: Scangauge- says it can clear codes. If the emissions system malfunctions and gives, for instance, a false read of clogged DPF, will a scangauge at least temporarily allow the vehicle to be restarted?
3rd question, which scan tools will give me manual regen ability? I know the dealership's "Starscan" can, but those are $5k. Anyone else get into this stuff?