JL welding Issues

[rodhotter]

profits drive ALL businesses, but when the faithful QUITE allowing it aka QUIT buying the poorly made products things will change!!! the faithful hardly bikers put up with hit + miss quality + still buy so Hardly continues to BS them. if a business can sell cheaper made for more they WILL + do you REALLY think anything but their PROFITS matter!!!!

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[old8tora]

profits drive ALL businesses, but when the faithful QUITE allowing it aka QUIT buying the poorly made products things will change!!! the faithful hardly bikers put up with hit + miss quality + still buy so Hardly continues to BS them. if a business can sell cheaper made for more they WILL + do you REALLY think anything but their PROFITS matter!!!!

Well said .

 

[Capt-Zoom]

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[Capt-Zoom]

On the bright side my neighbor, an oil pipeline welding inspector is going to ask a couple of his friends with a different certification to inspect my JLU frame welds. If this happens i will have some more ammunition against jeep for these welds.l0

 

[old8tora]

On the bright side my neighbor, an oil pipeline welding inspector is going to ask a couple of his friends with a different certification to inspect my JLU frame welds. If this happens i will have some more ammunition against jeep for these welds.l0

Weld 10 oil pipes under and attached to the frame , seal the ends with water-proof ends , and Presto : you will have buoyant floating Jeep to raft the rapids . Just attach a big rudder to the spare tire carrier , and you can float all the way down the Mississippi .

 

[Capt-Zoom]

If you have weld issues or for that matter any issue please see this thread.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/nhtsa-development.12067/

 

[Capt-Zoom]

If you have weld issues or for that matter any issue please see this thread.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/nhtsa-development.12067/

 

[Capt-Zoom]

Pics of my welds. These wouldn't have passed my 9th grade welding class let alone should be on a On road vehicle. Sorry about some of the pic quality...my camera is garbage. This is only maybe a 3rd of the welds that had slag and missing paint on them. So we have porosity, slag, lack of penetration, incomplete welds, wandering welds, and a shit ton of weld splash. Not pictured were all the weld drips/overweld
Overall I'd say 85% of my welds have slag on them and are missing paint. A lot of porosity too. Some of the others who have posted have welds worse than mine. Left side seemed worse than the right...especially under the doors. I sent Jeep Cares over 150 pics and they blew it off. at the time of these pics this jeep had seen colorado rain 3 times and had about 1k miles on it.

 

[old8tora]

the others who have posted have welds worse than mine. Left side seemed worse than the right...especially under the doors. I sent Jeep Cares over 150 pics and they blew it off. at the time of these pics this jeep had seen colorado rain 3 times and had about 1k miles on it.

Even a European-owned fca cannot blow off the NHTSA inspectors .

 

[Brew211]

WOW!!!
Is this typical?

 

[redelses]

anyone have photos of what the welds should look like, or examples of "acceptable" welds, on their JL/JLU? just curious, since I'm not an expert in this area. thanks!

 

[ALEX-4LO]

No one is posting pics on how the welds should look like... Example other makes and model vehicles , tacomas , maybe old wrangler JK's...

Everybody is just posting their shitty welds and saying its a SHITTY WELD.

 

[Jeepsforkeeps]

Here you go. Never saw this on my (former) JL.

 

[Capt-Zoom]

Here you go. Never saw this on my (former) JL.

Go to your local jeep dealer and look at the remaining JkU's. I've looked at about 6 now and the welds look acceptable. Occasionally some weld drip on the passenger side but I didn't see anything alarming. Hardly any slag either. If you like the ride of the JKU I suggest going that route rather than a JLU at this point since even the newer build dates are showing awful welds. I've seen this on nearly every JLU at 3 dealers in Northern Colorado for the last 3 weeks. I've been looking a lot. Showed a dealer the pics today and they were stunned and kinda made a scary face when I asked if you'd want your family in one.

 

[Jeepsterfreak]

Go to your local jeep dealer and look at the remaining JLU's. I've looked at about 6 now and the welds look acceptable. Occasionally some weld drip on the passenger side but I didn't see anything alarming. Hardly any slag either.

Wait. Do you mean “remaining JKU”? Not JLU.

The JL frames are galvanized. Tower International hasn’t figured out how to properly weld them yet?

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