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Jeep Liberty Interior and Upholstery
kobe8rice41
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I have a 2005 Jeep Liberty limited. I noticed that the seats easily stain, with water. When it rains little raindrops get on the seats when I open the door to get out and the spots stain. I'm wondering if people have the same problem and if you put anything on the seats, like a stain protector or something?
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I dunno.
Today I called the selling dealers detail shop. The manager admitted the Liberty seats were very difficult to clean. He said he uses plain steam to get it out, but there are some seats that just can't be dome very well. Armed with this information I was loaded for a gun fight. The woman put me on hold for about 20 minuets. Finally she said the 2006 Liberty's have a seat cleaning warning for dealers. These seats are very much like canvass. The material is a very tight weave. When any liquid comes in contact with the seat material, the dirt comes to the top and makes a stain. The DCX instructions say to clean the seats with warm (not hot) water, the whole seat. Then use a wet/dry vac and suck as much as you can out of the material. Then do the same thing with cold water. Vac the seats again. Let dry and vac one more time. She says DCX said it will look like new....LOL Time will tell! My selling dealer said he would have the seats steamed if this does not work. ABOVE ALL ELSE DO NOT USE SCOTTS GUARD!!! Treating the seats will actually make more stains that won't come out. This is what DCX says. If anyone trys this before I do, please tell us how it works.
Farout
I noticed the 2007's have a tag on the seats advertising static and stain resistant. Maybe Jeep took note of your comments and are trying to improve.
My big problem with my Liberty is she is a piggy, 12 mpg city and 14 mpg highway. I have never own another car I did not get in the EPA rating for gas mileage. My 94 Jetta got even better than the EPA rating.
I am naming her Miss Piggy.
Even so, this Jeep is a lot better than any GM vehicle. They just took care of ball joint recall.
With My GM truck you needed a Lawyer to get any warranty or recall work done.
I want to know if anyone has had any kind of problems
with that specific vehicle ...besides the recall...
or your on your 2nd time replacing the ball joints
I am really thinking on taking it back...
Help quick...
I have called the dealership, the general manager, the district manage and chrsyler customer service, all to no avail...and my car is under warranty!!!!!!
This is ridiculous!
This happened while under warranty and the the dealer screwed up not once but 3 times then changed hands and well my warranty was up and well it was tough crackers. D/C was interested at first. Then not. All I wanted was the part for the seat. They are not responsible for their dealerships they say. I was told I cannot just replace the handle. I have to replace the whole mechanical part that makes the back move. I have searched for the part on line however have not looked in an actual parts place yet. The dash recall that was done is falling out again. And quite frankly I don't know where to take it for it's last recall. Salerno and Dwayne in Summit NJ is out :lemon: and now Frystock in Avenel is out. Did anyone have the same situation with this mechanism? And can anyone in Central NJ suggest a reputable dealer? I need to get the ball joints fixed. I am hoping I can repair the seat myself.
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I am interested in filing a class action lawsuit against Chrysler for the material defect of the fabric-anyone else interested?
The dealership now confirms the seat stainng problem and the vehicle jumping or pulsing or whatever you want to call it, when at a stop......
Anyone had any success with the seats?
I bought an 06 with warranty left. Love the color, miss the fact that there were no floormats and now that I know of these two problems, I wonder what else is there?
Oh and already had to have the back window put back on the track.
ugggh.
In saying this I hope to NEVER own a Jeep again! We bought a 07 Chrysler Pacifica AWD Touring with the LIFETIME POWERTRAIN WARRANTY. We take it on the same roads as we did the Jeep Liberty's and get much better mpg and we are not jerked arround as we were in the Jeep's. We don'tforge rivers, or climb huge steep hills, so the Pacifica works for us much better.
farout
On another note - what is that Technical Service Bulletin number for cleaning the seats? The dealer doused my seats in water and then used a towel to absorb some of the water. He claimed it was soap residue that was causing the dis-coloration.
Again, unless we group together on this, Daimler/Chrysler will stone wall us. How about starting a blog for collecting names. This website is OK, but it's not enough to create momentum on this effort.
He uses steam on the seats, plus his usual chemicals and they cleaned up ok but they still look grungy and they still spot every single time you get one drop of rain on them.
I am going to call the dealership and see what they say, but I know my husband wont let them try to tell him how to clean them or what may have caused the damage. He wont take a bad answer.
He also wants to ask why they know the vehicle jumps or pulses when you come to a stop and why the windows go off track. My back window already did, and I never ever use it.
It is pitiful that so many of us have problems.
I wonder if we started a blog or yahoo or MSN group, would we get lots and lots of folks to join in and file complaints?
Maybe we would?
farout
David Hume wrote:
"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
My seats are covered with black fabric, the same style used by BMW 30 years ago. They suffer from no stain nor wear but don't look fancy at all. I just have to brush the dust off to make them look new!
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My Jeep dealership told my husband there is something wrong with the RAIN where we live.
And all the stories on the Internet dont matter one bit.
If anyone did receive an official statement on this from Jeep, I would like to know how to get a hold of one.
I also may consider bailing this vehicle before everything falls apart and looks horrible.
It says the problem is caused by residue puddling when it gets wet. The fix is to douse the seat with warm water and dish detergent, scrub up a foam, wipe off the foam with a cold-water sponge, re-wipe with a sponge, and then wet vac. Allow to dry. No allowance to replace the seat covers fabric. I'll try this as a next step, but it is not a valid fix. How many times will I need to clean the seats this way?
The only true fix is to replace the fabric. If anyone will start a class-action suit, I'll go along with it.
I sure would like a copy of that statement to wave in their face, since they told me it was the actual Rain that was the culprit.
Like I said, we own a carpet cleaning company with very powerful truck mount equipment. We use straight steam and non toxic chemical emulisfiers. This did not work on the spots. You can still see them. It helped a tad, but not much.
And we would be charging a minimum of $70 per visit to clean them.
Thanks for the update though, and providing another look at the whole mess.....
I found a place to obtain the bulletin but I dont feel like paying for getting it, so I am going to keep looking to see if there is a place to find it for free.
Take your Jeep in to the dealer and tell them you want the seats cleaned. When they try to give yoy a bill go to the General manager with the bill and explain you unhappy experience. Bet he lets the bill go.
farout
Are you guys complaining about the water droplets that inevitably fall on the seats when a door opens? In this case it's pollution carried by rain drops plus pavement residues that collect on the seats.
That is just plain silly.
How many vehicles with fabric seats have you had, and how many of them stained when rainwater got on them?
They are perfectly capable of making good quality fabric seats, which look nice and hold up through anything.
I have had a goodly few GM vehicles with cloth seats, which looked nice all the time.
I dont buy the rain story.
And like I said, we clean car upholstery for people through our business and we dont see spots from rain showing up on most of them.
If there is an alteration of the material covering the seats when your children spill their water, then the dye is not fixed well or dust becomes a coloring pigment of the material.
In industrial cleaning processes where ultra pure water is used for aerospace or scientific applications, a cascade of water rinses is standard practice after detergent(s) . It's a matter of dilution in this case.
Not a word you said makes any sense.
I'm sorry, no other vehicle we have ever ever owned gets stained from rain or any other kind of water or liquid.
None.
Also, as professional cleaners we would never ever suggest soaking down vehicle seats. Truth of the matter is, and we all know it, this should never have happened and the only remedy is to redo the seats or buy covers (which I never did like).
Btw, a few weeks ago a nice bit of snow fell off the roof onto my seats.
Just lovely.
Not only about the seats, but other things as well.
My windows were all redone at my request a couple weeks back (two had stopped going up and down).
Well, now I have a horrible squeak screech coming from the window they just fixed.
I have my eyes set on a Hyundai Santa Fe, and nearly was able to buy one last Friday but darn if my stupid Jeep hardly has any trade in value (2006, 20000 miles).