Jlu2114
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I’m new to this forum and I’ve been reading for days about the jlu platform and death wobble.
So last year I bought my wife a 2022 jlu and it was great up until about 12k miles. We started to notice what felt like a shimmy or possibly out of balance tire. We did change the tires out 2 days after we bought it for some a/t tires that were a little bit taller 31inch I believe but went almost 12k on them with no problems so we didn’t think that was it. I took it back to the tire shop had them check all the tires and rebalance them. This made no change in the shimmy vibration that was felt. Also it would go away on certain roads and come back on others.
fast forward to now it’s at 15kmiles and has a severe death wobble there are a couple spots close to the house we’re I can duplicate it every time. About 60mph hit the uneven bump in the road and the steering wheel starts shaking violently and rattles everything inside until I slow to at least 30mph sometimes all the way to 10pm before it stops.
I took it to the dealer and told them what was happening they looked at and said the steering stabilizer was the problem and the tires needed to be rotated. Now I was very doubtful that this would fix it and we just had the tires rotated a couple thousand miles ago.
The dealer said that the part was on back order with no eta but they could get one from another dealer if we paid 78 dollars shipping.
I ended up ordering a rough country n3 and had it at the door the next day for 54 bucks so now a new stabilizer installed and tires rotated and it still does the same thing.
now the dealer said that they checked everything in the front end but nothing was loose. I double checked it for my self and found that the drag link had play at both ends turning the wheel from 10-2 there was side to side play in the joint and I could feel see and hear the joint popping. I took it back to the dealer and had the service manager come look at it so I could show them.
now here is where I have started to loose all trust in this dealer. They called back and said they did find play in the drag link “ well duh I showed it to them”but that it wasn’t bad enough to cause a wobble and they said they could not duplicate the wobble even though I showed them a video I took of it while it was happening. Then they said they could replace the inner joint of the drag link but we would have to pay 78 dollars shipping because it had to come from another dealer and the other end was not available at all with no eta.
At this point I’m not going to argue with them about if it’s happening or not and I’m not going to pay money to fix half of the problem so I told them not to touch it and went and picked it up. I ordered a synergy hd drag link and am currently waiting for it to come in the mail. Now i have a keep that in paying on and can’t even drive and it only has 15k miles on it.
Terrible dealer support and stuck fixing it myself. It’s not a big deal to work on vehicles I’ve been a tech for years but it is absurd that this vehicle has such low miles has steering problems and can’t get a dealer to fix it.
now if you have read all that and are still here thanks
has anyone else had this experience
Did you fix it yourself or did you’re dealer step in and help.
should I expect other suspension and steering components to go out so soon as well
So last year I bought my wife a 2022 jlu and it was great up until about 12k miles. We started to notice what felt like a shimmy or possibly out of balance tire. We did change the tires out 2 days after we bought it for some a/t tires that were a little bit taller 31inch I believe but went almost 12k on them with no problems so we didn’t think that was it. I took it back to the tire shop had them check all the tires and rebalance them. This made no change in the shimmy vibration that was felt. Also it would go away on certain roads and come back on others.
fast forward to now it’s at 15kmiles and has a severe death wobble there are a couple spots close to the house we’re I can duplicate it every time. About 60mph hit the uneven bump in the road and the steering wheel starts shaking violently and rattles everything inside until I slow to at least 30mph sometimes all the way to 10pm before it stops.
I took it to the dealer and told them what was happening they looked at and said the steering stabilizer was the problem and the tires needed to be rotated. Now I was very doubtful that this would fix it and we just had the tires rotated a couple thousand miles ago.
The dealer said that the part was on back order with no eta but they could get one from another dealer if we paid 78 dollars shipping.
I ended up ordering a rough country n3 and had it at the door the next day for 54 bucks so now a new stabilizer installed and tires rotated and it still does the same thing.
now the dealer said that they checked everything in the front end but nothing was loose. I double checked it for my self and found that the drag link had play at both ends turning the wheel from 10-2 there was side to side play in the joint and I could feel see and hear the joint popping. I took it back to the dealer and had the service manager come look at it so I could show them.
now here is where I have started to loose all trust in this dealer. They called back and said they did find play in the drag link “ well duh I showed it to them”but that it wasn’t bad enough to cause a wobble and they said they could not duplicate the wobble even though I showed them a video I took of it while it was happening. Then they said they could replace the inner joint of the drag link but we would have to pay 78 dollars shipping because it had to come from another dealer and the other end was not available at all with no eta.
At this point I’m not going to argue with them about if it’s happening or not and I’m not going to pay money to fix half of the problem so I told them not to touch it and went and picked it up. I ordered a synergy hd drag link and am currently waiting for it to come in the mail. Now i have a keep that in paying on and can’t even drive and it only has 15k miles on it.
Terrible dealer support and stuck fixing it myself. It’s not a big deal to work on vehicles I’ve been a tech for years but it is absurd that this vehicle has such low miles has steering problems and can’t get a dealer to fix it.
now if you have read all that and are still here thanks
has anyone else had this experience
Did you fix it yourself or did you’re dealer step in and help.
should I expect other suspension and steering components to go out so soon as well
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