Nickyb1302
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To start this off my experience with my JLUR for the last 101k miles has been excellent. I’ve gone through the many little bugs with the steering and suspension but solved those pretty quickly and fairly easy but I’m now at a loss with this one. I have a 2018 JLUR 3.6 with 101k miles the last two weeks I’ve been dealing with my Uconnect radio 8.4 constantly crashing and rebooting like clockwork every minute or so. I attributed it to the aux battery because I know that stupid thing can cause some electrical problems when it decides to die so I deleted it finally.
A week later and my main battery dies (yellow top optima H6) noticed quite a bit of corrosion on the negative terminal so I cleaned it all off with baking soda water solution and a steel tooth brush and replaced the main battery with another H6 yellow top. Replaced the radio fuse and checked all the grounds I could find and pushed in all fuses to make sure none were loose. Few days have gone by since battery was replaced and I’m noticing immediate corrosion again on the negative terminal and I’ve been watching the battery voltage while driving. It slowly creeps down from 14.2 to 13.9/13.8 when the drive is over and these are long drives. Also noticed it feels as if it struggles when braking toward the end to hold the car in place and voltage drops. By struggle I mean feels like a rough idle and then when RPMs go back up its smooths out but the voltage doesn’t go back up immediately. Battery still reads 12.6v with car off and with It running the alternator is still pushing out 14.1v which I think should be ok correct me if I’m wrong please. However I feel like it is dying and this is the cause of some of the issues and the corrosion on the negative terminal due to undercharging. When I first bought this thing (I’m original owner from factory) I always saw 14.7-14.9 for voltage whenever it was running so I ordered a new alternator and I hope this solves the battery issue.
As for the radio constantly rebooting I’m chalking that up to software which I tried to update myself but I can’t get the stupid computer to accept the flash drive no matter what I do. I’ve gone through 3 flash drives and several different methods to update the software all according to Uconnects instructions and I still get the “this software is incompatible with this vehicle” so to the dealer it goes tomorrow morning unfortunately which I’ve been trying to avoid because I literally JUST had my warrant end and of course all this starts happening.
Anyone out there experience something similar to me? Is there something I’m missing with the battery? The grounds etc….. I love this car it just pisses me off that literally as soon as the warranty is over this shit starts happening.
One last thing. Has anyone experienced a noise coming from the passenger side by the grab handle that sounds like someone’s rubbing two pieces of styrofoam together constantly or small popping noise? The tweeter is fine even though I’m about to replace that but it is driving me nuts now that my radio hasn’t been working and I can’t figure out where that’s coming from.
A week later and my main battery dies (yellow top optima H6) noticed quite a bit of corrosion on the negative terminal so I cleaned it all off with baking soda water solution and a steel tooth brush and replaced the main battery with another H6 yellow top. Replaced the radio fuse and checked all the grounds I could find and pushed in all fuses to make sure none were loose. Few days have gone by since battery was replaced and I’m noticing immediate corrosion again on the negative terminal and I’ve been watching the battery voltage while driving. It slowly creeps down from 14.2 to 13.9/13.8 when the drive is over and these are long drives. Also noticed it feels as if it struggles when braking toward the end to hold the car in place and voltage drops. By struggle I mean feels like a rough idle and then when RPMs go back up its smooths out but the voltage doesn’t go back up immediately. Battery still reads 12.6v with car off and with It running the alternator is still pushing out 14.1v which I think should be ok correct me if I’m wrong please. However I feel like it is dying and this is the cause of some of the issues and the corrosion on the negative terminal due to undercharging. When I first bought this thing (I’m original owner from factory) I always saw 14.7-14.9 for voltage whenever it was running so I ordered a new alternator and I hope this solves the battery issue.
As for the radio constantly rebooting I’m chalking that up to software which I tried to update myself but I can’t get the stupid computer to accept the flash drive no matter what I do. I’ve gone through 3 flash drives and several different methods to update the software all according to Uconnects instructions and I still get the “this software is incompatible with this vehicle” so to the dealer it goes tomorrow morning unfortunately which I’ve been trying to avoid because I literally JUST had my warrant end and of course all this starts happening.
Anyone out there experience something similar to me? Is there something I’m missing with the battery? The grounds etc….. I love this car it just pisses me off that literally as soon as the warranty is over this shit starts happening.
One last thing. Has anyone experienced a noise coming from the passenger side by the grab handle that sounds like someone’s rubbing two pieces of styrofoam together constantly or small popping noise? The tweeter is fine even though I’m about to replace that but it is driving me nuts now that my radio hasn’t been working and I can’t figure out where that’s coming from.
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