I've counted about 8 people who've broken bolts so far. Who knows how many more there are who are not even on here. Or who had an off-road shop do it, and they broke the bolt. Or a dealer even. It does almost sound like a bad batch of bolts given the blue Loctited bolt snapped on that one guy.
$50! Okay I'll ask my dealer, lol. That's worth just avoiding the potential headache alone.
How'd it go @marv1294?Lol happened to me the other day, add me to the list
I thought I was being careful, got the whole driver side on and this happened to the front passenger side bolt
Got an appointment at the dealership on Friday, hopefully figure something out with jeep cares before I go back to school because this is some bull
I did Ace Rocksliders last Friday. I used my impact wrench (see my other threads on this). The middle and rear bolts came out like nothing. Although I’d convinced myself heating the head of the bolt would not transfer enough heat to the locktite, I heated the front two bolts with a propane torch for 5 minutes for good luck before putting the impact wrench on it. Both sides came right out with no problem.
Dealership called me back saying that they tried calling Chrysler cares and they just straight up said no even though she tried to reason that others have gotten it covered.
Removing the body seems pretty extreme. Assuming you broke either the driver or passenger side front bolt, my course of action would have been to remove the carpet above the broken bolt and drill into the floor with a bit large enough to see what’s going on. Then try to get a bolt removal tool in there (hardened left handed drill bit and then an easy out. The guy I bought my Ace sliders from broke a bolt and he said it took him a couple of hours to get the old one out.
Called two different times, denied
