I am sorry, that is not is not true. Come to my place in Colorado and I can put your Jeep into limp mode no problem. @CarbonSteel will agree. Every person I know with a 3.6 here has seen limp mode, on the highway. Once it happens you learn and try to not let it happen.
Agree. I had a pickup with a plastic end tank with a crack that would leak so small that it took months to notice the coolant was down. A friend had a pickup he "fixed" a hole from a rock in the core tube with a piece of wood from a nearby bush. It leaked so little that it was in there for years. No absolutes.
Sorry, any coolant leak is a major mechanical issue.
Where in Colorado are you? You are saying you have a Jeep you can 100% put into limp mode doing some sort of "normal" driving or you just stress it until it does?
I'm not exactly arguing either side. My preference is to have my Wrangler running cooler. But, we all know that plastics, when subjected to higher temps degrade a lot faster. 25-40 degrees is a lot higher. Did they use special plastics on the Wrangler to withstand higher temps? No. Just as likely they didn't use anything special or Wrangler specific when manufacturing the engine block or internals and these temps are bad/too high for just about every other engine on the road. Please name some others that run at these high temps? I regularly see 225-239 and have gone into limp mode at 242 with no additional load/no towing.
The same people who think a coolant leak is a minor issue also think a car with 120,000 miles on it isn't worth fixing. No loss of coolant is acceptable. Zero.
What? that makes no sense…. My dodge truck has 350k miles on it. And yes it has a few leaks, both by design and “aftermarket”
Nope normal driving. My daily commute, when I had one, involved the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnel each day. And in summer temps with the right stop and go, a Jeep will limp 100%.
I think we will try to run an Ike test this summer if possible
Just take a run from the Silverthorne side and about 1/2 way up stop and go for 2 or 3 minutes. Then get back up to speed and you will limp 100%…
Saying 100% is silly. I've been through that tunnel a dozen times in summer in all sorts of shitty traffic. The only time I've seen over 232F was a 15 degree incline climbing a trail with loose debris. I use the off-road pages almost by default, so a lot of watching temps in my Jeep's 178Kmi. Your Jeep may have a problem, but don't think that's normal.
Mine is not the only one. And I often see overheated vehicles. Every 3.6 I have ever been in I have seen over 230. It is a thin air thing. I traded it, as I said earlier, -9°F air temp and 235° coolant on the climb. Traded it on a 392…. My buddies 3.6 has gone into limp 3 or 4 time in the last 6 month headed up skiing from Denver.
You know you are just beating a dead horse here. lol
That is great new
