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Any suggestions???
Could this be electrical?
Any suggestions as to what the cause/fix might be?
Thanks
Sometimes it will start and run perfectly. Other times, it will not even attempt to start but I will hear the CD changer in the back of the SUV loading all the CD's. I can then wait 5 minutes and it will start perfectly. I notice when it won't start that the instrument dials do go crazy but only when attempting to start it. When it is running, it does seem to run fine.
I have it at a mechanic right now. Initially they told me it was the battery however, I know that is not the entire problem.
Stay tuned,
Donna
Over the last couple of months I have had to put my key fob almost at the window before it would open. don't know whether this is related.
btw ive also had a problem with starting it, i can turn the key to turn the radio on but its takes a couple of goes to turn the engine on as it just make a clunking noise. also aircon hasnt worked and one of the electric seats doesnt work.
ours doesnt stall it just seems to brakes shapely, engine still running.i think it does it when its trying to go in to 2nd gear.
does anyone know if the gearbox had completely gone if the car would move forward, because i would have thought if it was the gearbox had gone it just wouldnt go into 1st or 2nd gear
weve been driving round for about 12 months now without the prob shaft on the front of the car. could that have caused something to happen to it.
its as if the car is tied to a piece of rope and once the rope runs out it just comes to an instant hault (if you get what i mean lol) if that helps.
It works fine in Drive,2nd,1st, and Park.
So now I have no Reverse lights due to the fuse being blown. I have tried disconnecting the reverse light switch from the transmission, no luck... Also I have removed the reverse light bulbs, no luck... I have checked other bulbs for corrosion,etc. no luck....
Why would my Reverse gear be taking out my turn signals and air controls?
Can anyone tell me what might be the problem here??
I have never had any electrical problems before,until now. And I have never heard of anything like this.
The culprit was the neutral position sensor harness. It seems that over time the harness had rubbed against and bracket mount for the transmission and exposed bare wire for the Reverse causing a ground short.
Here is how I trouble shoot it. I started the vehicle and then unplugged the neutral position sensor and the placed the vehicle into reverse and it did not blow the fuse.
So I then started checking the harness for problems back to the fuse box. Luckly I didn't have to look far. I had bought a Hanes Manual to get the wire diagram so that I would know where/what was all tied into the reverse electrical system.
After three days of brain racking, all is good now.
NOTE: The vehicle will not start with the sensor unplugged, so be sure to start the vehicle first.
Sometimes I'll go out and it will start right up, other times it won't even click when I use my power locks. When it doesn't start I have to sit there and continue turning the key on and off until it eventuallyyy starts up. Usually it won't make a sound when turning the key. The battery is only a year old, I have a warranty on it but Autozone checked it and said the battery and alt are fine.
still sounds like battery
btw ive also had a problem with starting it, i can turn the key to turn the radio on but its takes a couple of goes to turn the engine on as it just make a clunking noise. also aircon hasnt worked and one of the electric seats doesnt work.
if older than one year sugust you change that first as most intermit prob are a bad battery one cell could be going bad and not make contact all the time will cause all diffrent problums
Now......When I try to start my car, the starter kicks over then stops and all of the electronics die in the car. No lights or anything. Can't restart it. This happened a few times to me but tonight it finally completely stopped. I went hunting quite a ways out of town and came back to the car and it locked me out!!!! No response from the controller. No lights. The gauges were going crazy on the dash board. I couldn't manually open the door because the keyhole was locked up.
Needless to say, I had quite a long, pissed off walk.
thanks!
Wow, that's bad. I never had those symtoms, however, my previous Jeep Cherokee had the problem where the gauges went crazy (I sold it soon). Are you located in a cold area? My situation in message #205 seems to happen when it is cold outside. What year/model is your Jeep?
Thanks, DJ
It's sad when you have to guess whether or not you car will start, or when will it died while you are driving it... We have taken it to several auto shops and each time the mechanic is at a lost- they have no idea as to what the problem may be. I think the biggest issue is the problem is hard to reproduce, since the problem is so sporadic.
From what I’ve read in the different forums, this problem is pretty common, leaving me to believe Chrysler is aware of the problem...
If you are still having this issue, contact Chrysler at1-800-853-1401 or 1403
or the National Highway Transportation Safety at 1-888-327-4236
Also, I don't think it's accurate to conclude that your starting issue is a widespread problem based on you reading a few forum posts. Please remember that the posts here (and in other forums) are coming from a small sub-sample of Jeep owners and not necessarily representative of all of them. After all, one doesn't often see the posts about things running just fine, because there's no need to post about it .