Jimmy_jak
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Glad they helped you. Please post the repair sheet anyway.Hi fellow Jeepers,
I specifically signed up to this forum today to share my experience with this issue...
I have been experiencing the same knocking/clunking in the rear at very low speeds only when I decelerate around 15-25km/h as many of you on this forum. I took my Jeep in to the dealer on Nov 9th for them to have a look at it and directly first thing they said was I modified the tires and it is probably the reason why I hear a noise and simply told me nothing was wrong with the car...I drive on 33's BFGoodrich KO2.
I went back home and started doing my research and luckily stumbled upon this forum... I went back the next day and showed them that hundreds if not thousands of JL's had the same issue.
When he finally decided to look into it with care, he found that the drive shaft and rear transfer case had some issues, when he opened it SOLID BLACK OIL leaked out along with pieces of the gears, looked like small metal teeth if we can call it that... took them 3 weeks to order the parts as they were on back order and another 4 days to install them on the car... all in all a bit less than 5 weeks for me to fully recuperate my vehicle.
They changed the whole transfer case, rear drive shaft, replaced the oils and now the car is running smooth with no noise just like before.
I really hope that Jeep finds a solution to this issue as this is not a permanent fix... it is only patching up the wound with a newer/younger part.. the tech at Jeep told me that it is likely to happen again since we are only renewing the part and not changing the piece model itself for something compatible...If this is to happen again when the vehicle is no longer under warranty it will have to come out of our own pockets... This is insane for Brand new 2018-2020 JL's with barely 24,000km's on the car... makes no sense at all.
The good thing is that I was able to get it fixed, even though it took a long time...Now I am not sure what to do next as I feel it is a time ticking bomb until it breaks again...
Wish you all luck in this repair and I felt like I should post my experience as this forum helped me a lot getting my Jeep fixed, hope this will help new comers as well.
Cheers!
P.S I would post a picture of the 2 page repair sheet I got but everything is in french... I am from Montreal, QC
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