My CRD is TOTALED.

bigcoupee · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:24 am

darn ur lucky wish i could safely total my CRD in accident. My dash is like a christmas tree, tranny shutters getting worse, still goes in and out of limp mode after cleaning the sensors and replacing the map sensor, have to plug it in anything colder than -4C after replacing the glowplugs just months ago. Injector stuck wide open other day, making wide cloud of smoke... what else. I'm ready to give up I think, get a horse perhaps.

geordi · **Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:10 pm

Clouds of white smoke? That is a coolant leak into the cylinders.

We can try and help you if you post a thread all-your-own about your CRD, and give you some places to look / start on fixing it up. If it runs, that is the first big hurdle, but these engines don't like to suffer problems for very long, and they get very expensive failures VERY quickly if ignored.

turbobike · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:47 am

don't know if you are looking for another CRD, but there is one on EBAY, right near you, in Southbury. Looks good on paper, current bid is quite low ($5000 ish)

racertracer · **Posted:** Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:31 pm

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.

Preferably a Liberty CRD Limited with heated seats.

The warm seats bring happiness to my ladys face when it's cold out and a sense of tranquillity for a spell.

That option alone is worth its weight in gold.

liberty2.8 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:59 pm

racertracer wrote:

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.

Preferably a Liberty CRD Limited with heated seats.

The warm seats bring happiness to my ladys face when it's cold out and a sense of tranquillity for a spell.

That option alone is worth its weight in gold.

Yep, love that heated leather seat option in mine. I have the 2006 White Liberty Limited with 6 disc changer and NAV system with 97,000. I doubt you want to come as far south as north Alabama but let me know if you want to talk.

boilermaker2 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:03 pm

Just saw this...glad you're well. Good luck on your search. 'twer me, I would seek a bluetec GC....

racertracer · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:16 am

boilermaker2 wrote:

Just saw this...glad you're well. Good luck on your search. 'twer me, I would seek a bluetec GC....

Thanks.

I checked on the Bluetec Grand Cherokee and although the bluetec is a superior engine, replacement parts are astronomical and difficult to get.

According to my local Jeep parts dept, if something major goes worng with the vehicle (a need for a new cylinder head for example), the whole engine is offered as a replacement part instead of the head.

The parts manager said that Mercedes parts are virtually nonexistant and you cannot buy them directly from Mercedes, they do not offer them. He said that if you think the Jeep Liberty CRD is a headache to deal with when it comes to replacement parts, then the Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD is an even bigger headache with an astronomical price tag.

The split between Diamler Chrysler must have pissed off some high Mucky Muck at the Mercedes parts department.

By the way here is a link to the Copart auction site where my totaled Jeep is listed. It doesn't look that bad now that I look at it. The engine needs a lot of work though, a new cylinder head gasket for sure and lots of broken parts.

Here's a link to the carnage:

http://www.copart.com/c2/homeSearch.htm ... CH_RESULTS

liberty2.8 wrote:

was it the airbag that caused your injuries?

Yes it was the air bag that caused skin burns to my arm and fractured my wrist.

Something I would like to point out regarding the air bag is that it did not deploy on impact, I prepared myself for its explosion but it didn't occur.

The air bag didn't deploy until after the vehicle came to a full stop and my body was safe at rest, approximately 3 to 4 seconds after impact, which made its service useless and causing harm to my arm and wrist.

I scoured the net to see if others had gone through this same scenario where an air bag didn't deploy on time and discovered that there were many.

I believe that an air bag deployment is capable of causing major bodily harm and possibly even death.

What good is having an air bag if it doesn't deploy at the moment of impact and it being the major cause of bodily damage in an accident?

Furthermore, there's no way to know that the bag is not working properly untill a major crash occurs and by that time it's too late.

geordi · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:35 pm

Dude... For that price, you should buy it back and part it or sell it to Sir Sam. I know that thing was a money pit with the coolant system, but the engine looks like it could be in OK shape in there.

As for the airbags... Its nice to know that Chrysler managed to screw up yet another system, probably with overcomplicating it. The airbag system was supposed to be a steel ball (gold plated) held by a strong magnet, that would only release in a sharp impact, touching contacts on the other side which releases the airbag instantly. Not a delay of 3-4 seconds after all the noise stops!

Be VERY glad you didn't get into a Grand Cherokee with the Bluetec... I don't know about the Chrysler part system, but I do know that they sold WAY LESS of those things than the CRD, and your parts guy isn't wrong about the price or availability. What I have heard about it is that Merc is VERY annoyed at Chrysler about the Grand Cherokee diesel - Seems that the parts availability problem AND a warranty service reputation problem (No trained techs, sound familiar?) is causing MAJOR hurt to Mercedes' reputation with those customers, and Merc has little they can do about it.

Add to the dealer problems, that Corporate decided to ONLY outfit the Grand Cherokee with every option they had once you selected the diesel... (Oh, silver-plated floormats and a solid gold shifter handle? Those are now STANDARD!) and it meant that the person who bought that GC was a stupid rich affluent buyer that would never EVER take it off road on anything other than a grassy field to get to their polo tournament.

This is not a buyer who handles poor quality politely or quietly... And why would you spend so much on a CHRYSLER, when the Merc M-class SUV with the SAME MOTOR was within spitting distance of the price?

I'm sad that Chrysler seems to be doing better with Fiat now - They need to just completely go under and sell the Jeep brand to someone that knows what an indestructible truck SHOULD be - My dream buyer would be UNIMOG.

msilbernagel · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:51 pm

The EMS folks get a lot of training on airbags, as they often deploy while extracting accident victims, injuring the rescuers - or worse.

After the class, many of them go home and disable their SRS systems... :shock:

Nice to be able to walk away tho, isn't it?

Mark

My CRD is TOTALED.

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