Episode 1043 – Oil Cartridge Or Filter?
GoTopless Day 1 dead, 2 injured!
You hear this every year, or at least we do in S.E. Texas. Our beach is Galveston, and GoTopless Day happens in several places on the sandy border of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bolivar is generally a bad place to attend the event unless you have new body armor and driving to Detroit is just too far to try it out.
189 arrests were made, and the local TV station is calling this “Jeep Weekend” Did someone copyright GoTopless Day?
On the Bolivar Peninsula, there was one fatality among the victims, but it’s unclear if they died at the scene or if they died later.
Does it matter, they are D E A D dead!
Jeepers let the NON-Jeepers cause the problem. We don’t want people to associate Jeeps with bad actors, you know like the BMW and Bro dozer people…
Grand Cherokee 4xe “Bricked”!
We here are the Jeep Talk Show don’t enjoy bringing you “we told you” news about another 4xe issue, okay maybe we do a little, but Edmonds.com is reporting that their 2023 Grand Cherokee 4xe died 300 miles from home.
Roadside assistance was called, and they could pay $2300 to be towed the 300 miles home. Free to be towed 20 miles to the nearest dealership, or $3.99 for a gallon of gas to burn it to the ground.
Wussys they decided on the dealership. It took 6 days for the dealership to report… “We found a pin disconnected from the back of the electronic control unit.”
I think this means a wire was disconnected from the computer, the ECU, the PCM, and that thingy that makes the Jeep go.
In the end, our Jeep spent 14 days out of service. All repairs were done under warranty. We learned it was also due to two safety recalls. The tech performed one and part of the other while troubleshooting the main issue.
- Problem 1: The car bricked.
- Solution 1: Reconnect pin 10 to the ECU and repair the wire leading to pin 10.
- Problem 2: Safety recall 04B; defroster.
- Solution 2: Update parts and software.
- Problem 3: Safety recall 10B; steering knuckle to control arm bolt.
- Solution 3: Parts not available.
All service was done under warranty, but they were still without their Jeep and had to travel 1800 miles to get it. 300 from where it died. 300 back to pick it up (two people) then 300 miles to get it home.
Warranty is nice but it doesn’t pay for everything.
We have a link to the full story at edmunds.com in our show notes for episode 1043.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2023-jeep-grand-cherokee-4xe-stranded-long-term-update.html
Jeep Talk Show Gladiator Update
After the recent trip to EJS, the 2021 Jeep Talk Show Gladiator now has 22k miles on it!
Low Patreon subscriber count, Apple trimming 27% of our downloads means even less money coming in for the show. It’s great having sponsors like Bawarrion and JeeTops otherwise I’d be picking up aluminum cans. Although I think these days it’s catalytic converters and the random A/C unit for the copper.
Even though times are tough I didn’t want to get too many miles on the 3.6 before adding some protection that I believe in since Kevin of Baxter Performance talked about right here on the show.
The MS-201-BK cartridge to Spin-on adapter.
This do-dad keeps oil in the filter and then dumps that oil into your 3.6 upon startup. Getting oil to the critical engine parts that are known to fail.
A quick Google search identified that TrailRecon.com had the best price at $325, with free shipping.
It was quick getting here, in fact so quick I don’t have an oil filter yet.
Bill let me bounce this off of you. I can’t change the oil on my gladiator as it will end the extra warranty I have, but I think I can install the adapter, and oil filter and then just do the double pedal and turn the engine over but not start to prime the filter.
I need to check the Gladiator but I think I have an oil change coming up, so I may wait to do this until after the oil change.
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