lohr500
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So after 30 months of 2.2D JLU Rubicon ownership, I filed for divorce.
Sadly, I have to say that I have never owned a less reliable vehicle in over 40 years of driving.
My Wrangler spent many weeks stuck in various UK dealerships waiting for ineffective repairs with poor support from Jeep UK.
It is such a shame as it was a great vehicle when it was working and ticked so many boxes for me. I bought it as a keeper to see me well into my retirement but it wasn't to be.
I parted company with it today and I will never buy another modern Jeep/FCA/Stellantis product again. It made Land Rovers look reliable and that is saying something.
Perhaps I was just unlucky but I was simply not prepared to put up with the ongoing worry and risk over what would fail next.
I hope others have better luck than me and that your ownership experience is proving less stressful.
Sadly, I have to say that I have never owned a less reliable vehicle in over 40 years of driving.
My Wrangler spent many weeks stuck in various UK dealerships waiting for ineffective repairs with poor support from Jeep UK.
- Too many hours spent driving to and from dealers only to find the same failures kept returning even though they were supposed to have been fixed.
- Weeks of driving around in various courtesy cars and a couple of ruined planned trips away as we couldn't tow our dinghy.
- Waving goodbye to my Jeep on a recovery truck twice in the space of one month due to the same failure (which took three attempts to fix).
- Alarm still going off randomly, despite two changes to the internal sensors and reassurances that it had been sorted.
- Three month wait for a replacement heated rear screen.
- Wasted trip for it's 1st service because Jeep couldn't supply an oil filter even though it was booked in for the service three weeks in advance.
- Incorrect parking sensor module fitted at the factory which meant the front parking sensors never worked until the 5th dealer visit where the fault was finally diagnosed.
- Three replacement exhaust system sensors and resulting limp home mode during my brief ownership.
- ESS system that only works if the batteries are charged manually despite the batteries being replaced.
It is such a shame as it was a great vehicle when it was working and ticked so many boxes for me. I bought it as a keeper to see me well into my retirement but it wasn't to be.
I parted company with it today and I will never buy another modern Jeep/FCA/Stellantis product again. It made Land Rovers look reliable and that is saying something.
Perhaps I was just unlucky but I was simply not prepared to put up with the ongoing worry and risk over what would fail next.
I hope others have better luck than me and that your ownership experience is proving less stressful.
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