tedcarney wrote:
jrsavoie wrote:
tedcarney wrote:
Grand lake, co. About two hours nw of Denver
A lot of people that have taken their CRD's to a dealer are sadly disappointed in about 20,000 miles or so. They do not get anything extra that really needs to be done, Like the tensioner double checked several times before it is called good.
At the dealership they slam it together and rarely double check, they do not check the rockers. They just change the belt and within about 20,000 miles you have huge issues. I've read about this happening several times and seen it in person once.
I do not know what you have done so far, but if you plan to keep the vehicle, I would go whole hog and do everything.
Right now the timing belt kit and everything associated with it, the head studs and new rockers.
The Weeks elbow, the Eco tune and the lift pump in the future.
If I may ask, why did you have to put in a new engine at 142,000 miles. Is it even worth it at this point to keep putting money into this car?
I bought the Jeep as a basket case. I've never seen these engines before and ended up having to hire it done. We had to put a new engine in I suspect, because the dealer didn't do a proper job of installing the timing belt. The rockers went 17,000 miles after the belt was installed.
The previous owner took the jeep to a dealership that said they had a guy that was good with the CRD's.
Turned out he was a complete idiot. He took everything apart as far as he could. He lost the head gasket and did not label the injectors. He bent broke and lost other parts. Pat had his hand full working on this. At least he had some spare bolts and stuff to get things back together correctly.
We were looking at rebuilding - I already had the head checked out and a parts list to order.
We priced a new engine and got a list of everything that was supposed to be included. We made our decision based on that list and after reconfirming several times with the dealer.
I ordered the extra stuff I wanted on a new engine. Green tune, FS2500, lift pump and maybe a couple other items.
The engine came in as a long block. and I already had all this other stuff bought. Had I not had the other stuff there already, I would have gone back to the rebuild plan A.
Plan A was to get the Jeep running and sell it. Not to put a bunch of extras on. I've never been all that trusting of rebuilds and these Jeeps seem to be expensive to maintain. Sp I was just going to sell it with no extras invested.
With the new engine I was hoping for a fuel miser that would last a long time without issues.
No fuel miser here. It gets slightly better than our 6.5 GM's and they are dependable for a lot of miles and much more usable.
Would I do it again? Heck no. But I'm in it booty deep now, so hopefully we can drive it long enough to get our money's worth out of it.
If the dealership hadn't promised all the parts would be on the engine that were not there, I would have just installed a used engine or rebuilt.
Can't say I'll ever buy a Jeep or Chrysler product again. 2 heavy screwings from 2 different dealers
I think I'm into the Jeep for about $16,000 now. And it doesn't act like it's done eating yet.
I'm also used to putting 3 to 500,000 miles on my vehicles. I had heard from people that didn't know, that this would be a good running low maintenance vehicle. On the lines of the 6.5 diesels I have. New injectors for the 6.5's are about $500 every 100,000 miles. The timing chain will last up to 500,000 miles or more. I know I drove one that long. We've got close to or over 300,000 on all of our 6.5's. We've replaced 2 transmissions, 4 Fuel filter Managers, about 10 PMD's, 6 lift pumps and one injection pump so far other than normal maintenance. That's about $5000 dollars worth of repairs - not including maintenance items - I am including front end work in maintenance items - in a total of about 2 million miles. With a total of about $25,000 invested in the vehicles at purchase
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