LBJ - I Found a 'SECRET'!

QuestMan · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:10 pm

I was at a Dodge dealer, yesterday, working on a printer issue in their parts dept. While there, I was grumbling about the fact that It's looking like it will be late May or June, before my ball joints get replaced. The parts mgr. stared at me in amazement. "We HAVE LBJs in stock"! I replied, "My dealer told me they are only getting 3 sets per week, I've been on the list for 6 weeks, and from the list, it looks like it will be another 2 months, or so, before I can get mine done"!

This dealer doesn't sell Jeeps, specifically. Anyway, since they don't sell Jeeps, they don't have as many people coming in for the LBJ recall work, and have plenty in stock.

Sooo.............if you want your LBJs done sooner, find a Dodge dealer in the area who DOESN'T sell Jeeps, and see if they can do it for you. (It's STILL Chrysler) :shock:

2006 KJ · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:21 pm

hahahah i wish i would've known this a few weeks ago.. i just got a post card in the mail saying my LBJ's were in at the dealer.. so it's going in next week to get those replaced. quality secret though..

rs4mtnitro · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:05 pm

I went to the dodge dealer which doesn't even sell jeeps and they had the new design in stock.

KW AV8R · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:26 pm

I went into the Jeep dealership here for some other stuff and they asked me if I want my LBJ replaced right then; that it would only take an additional hour. I never even got my recall notice.

QuestMan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:26 pm

Way to go!

Pablo · **Joined:** Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1201

I think this backorder stuff is a lie. Perhaps it is more because they don't want to do the balljoints and hope you will go somewhere else (guess they don't pay the dealer very much to do them). I was told that the ball joints were out of stock by a dealer's service writer over the phone. He said I could not get ball joints for months-- I took my Jeep in to the dealer for the tranny on the very same day-- figuring I would at least have them look at my tranny.

They could not fix the tranny (right before F37-- so they "could not duplicate"). Instead they asked me if I wanted to get the ball joints done while I was there. I asked them if they had "found" some. The service writer said they had plenty, it was not a problem. So in three hours it went from "can't get them for months" to "sure, plenty of them laying around". I don't think the stories about the ball joint shortages are true at this point.

lucas/liberty · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:35 pm

my jeep dealer replaced my lbf 2 days after i called(just because i couldnt make it the next day...glad to say my jeep dealer is a true 5 star dealer.............

hooperswish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:00 am

Thst is awesome that the dodge dealer would do that for you.
I must admit that I am a little confused. My '06 has a May '06 manufactured date, and it has the lbj's with the blue line. Did I miss a post? Will this be a recall as well? I typed my vin # at the sight and it responded "No recalls as of this date" or something like that. But I see that some member's '06's are getting it done. What's up?

hooperswish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:01 am

Thst is awesome that the dodge dealer would do that for you.
I must admit that I am a little confused. My '06 has a May '06 manufactured date, and it has the lbj's with the blue line. Did I miss a post? Will this be a recall as well? I typed my vin # at the sight and it responded "No recalls as of this date" or something like that. But I see that some member's '06's are getting it done. What's up?

KW AV8R · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:33 am

hooperswish wrote:

Thst is awesome that the dodge dealer would do that for you.
I must admit that I am a little confused. My '06 has a May '06 manufactured date, and it has the lbj's with the blue line. Did I miss a post? Will this be a recall as well? I typed my vin # at the sight and it responded "No recalls as of this date" or something like that. But I see that some member's '06's are getting it done. What's up?

If I'm not mistaken, I think the recall applies to those '06s with a build date before your's. I'll have to do some research but I think the cut-off was something like April 1st, 2006.

Did the research and found that the recall applies to KJs with a manufacture date prior to March '06

hooperswish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:59 pm

Awesome, Thanks Pete. Some day I think I will go with moogs just to be sure...

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