To make a long story short, I got road raged upon this morning and spend the better part of 20 miles on the interstate under extremely heavy acceleration and braking and was pretty much blowing heavy clouds of soot out the exhaust - all trying to excape a crazy person. Is this going to hurt, or help the CRD with only 2000 miles on it so far?

Needless to say, I gave it the full 5 minutes of cool down idle time at work before shutting her down.



For those curious, I was in the fast lane on cruise control with a line of traffic in front of me, so no one had anywhere to go. (3 lane interstate). I looked to my right when I saw break lights and apparently a burgandy Mistubishi 3000GT had come up the middle lane at probably close to 100mph (since the rest of us were already going 70ish) and had to slam on the brakes because he(or she) could not squeeze into the small space in front of me. (I'm still on cruise just realizing what took place).

So, the car tailgated me and I actually felt the car touch the trailer hitch on my Jeep. I tapped the breaks - this made his/her attitude worse - I applied my breakes on harder so he/she would go by and leave me alone. Instead, the car came up next to me and tried to side swipe me, pushed me into the center median. Really shook me up since this was a really nice car and the person did not care that they were going to destroy it. This is where the cat and mouse started and my heavy accelerations actually out ran the sports car (barely) but I had the engine at 4000rpm several times. A large diesel utility truck finally came to my rescue after seeing the harassment and gave me protection by swerving toward the guy/gal and letting the car know to back off. Sucky morning huh?

Yup. This is the very reason why I am glad I live on THIS side of the River.

Glad you weren't hurt though. Some people just need to be on medication. As far as hurting your Jeep...I think you'll be OK. You've got enough miles on it now that redlining it once or twice won't kill it. Afterall, it is a diesel.

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2005 Stone White KJ Limited CRD 4x4
Off-Road Pkg
Trac-Lok
Emu 790s/948s
Skyjacker H7088s rear/Bilsteins front
15x7 Black Rock Lobos/31x10.50 Firestones
GDE HOT Tune + TCM Tune
Euro TC
CB radio
Thrush Turbo muffler
AEM DryFlow filter

Yep. You did the right thing letting the turbo plenty of time to cool - that's the vulnerable bit. You didn't hurt anything.

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Chris
Current:
2007 Steel Blue Metallic Grand Cherokee CRD Limited
GDE Eco Tune and DPF delete
CB Engineering DPF delete pipe
EHM

Past (sold to Mountainman):
2005 Patriot Blue Liberty CRD Limited

Sounds like you were on 465 .................. seen a few people lose their cool on that road .

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'05 Bright Silver Sport CRD
245/70/16 BFG AT KOs (On the second set now.....First set was replaced at 106K miles)
some stereo stuff.........
L.O.S.T. #053490

Try driving in the Baltimore/DC area, I see that kind of crap every day. There would be a lot of dead people if I had a gun (and didn't get caught). I agree with a previous comment about people needing to be on meds or just not allowed to drive. I always thought it would be neat if you had to take a driving test suited to the kind of vehicle you wanted. You want a sports car, you better be able to handle that bad boy on a street course. You want a Jeep, get your butt to Moab.

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KB3MIX
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Black 2005 Liberty Sport CRD

Yeah, i would have let him rear end me, got that nice big spare tire in the back, would have messed up his car real nice....

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05' Liberty Limited CRD

You guessed it! I-465 on the west side traveling northbound. I'm just glad the big rig diesel saw the idiot chasing and swerving at me and stepped in (swerved in) to help!

Being on this side of the river makes no difference, my friend. As noted elsewhere in this thread, the DC area sees this sort of insanity often, and there was a famous case a couple years ago of a gal who was chased up I-81 between Lexington and Roanoke, and in an attempt to get away, wound up crossing the median, flying over both lanes of traffic, and off into the weeds to her death. A number of folks witnessed the whole affair, and said the guy basically pushed her down the road for several miles at speeds over 100 mph. Strangely, nobody managed to get the a%$^#*&holes license number, and he/she has never been caught.

Makes a rear-firing, 5 foot long battering ram about 30 inches off the road, just enough to punch a 6 inch hole in the radiator a fine optional accessory, doesn't it?