Heads up New Rubicon owners

Bloomer said:

Mine is supposed to arrive tomarrow and this post makes me nervous. If they knew about it maybe they fixed the issue with newer builds.

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There are a lot of threads making me nervous.
http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/heads-up-new-rubicon-owners-195476.html


http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/update-on-ticking-pentastar-new-head-137608.html


http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/why-the-2012-leaks-under-the-passenger-floormat-181506.html


http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/jeep-2012-engine-squeak-help-173145.html


http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/fyi-water-sound-behind-dash-diagnosed-by-chrysler-186603.html

http://www.wranglerforum.com/f33/heater-in-jk-188959.html


Being forced to find the time to get any of these issues fixed is a concern. I am often on call when I am not at work and I consider my time off to be valuable.

Potts said:

holy crap that would freak me out

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Yup, I wanted a Jeep when I was younger and loved the one I rented while on vacation in Oahu a few years ago. At the time I just didn't want to give up one of my other cars to give it space in the garage. Now, I'd be will to drop the Audi and give its spot to the Jeep if it just wasn't beginning to read like Jeep sells cars using the "there's a sucker born every minute" philosophy.

Money isn't the main issue and I assume that to be the case for most people looking at the higher end Jeeps these days. but what worries me is having to take my time to deal with a problem Jeep sold to me because I was a "sucker" in their minds. I am a physician and almost always on call even when I am not at the hospital I can't say I won't be called back at a moments notice. Getting to a dealership requires massive amounts of planning and schedule changing on my part. My wife doesn't know shit about cars so they'd tell her they fixed the flux capacitor and changed the headlight fluid and she'd happily walk away.

Sure a Jeep is still a unique product. There is nothing else like it on the market and I would honestly love to have one that was at least built to the quality standards of other cars in the price bracket. But just based on all of my reading while combing forums in between patients, it really does appear to have more quality control issue than any other car I've ever looked in to.

I started reading about this stuff because my dad had a Dodge truck some years ago and within a few years everything but the Cummins fell apart or stopped working. The steering wheel literally fell off while he was driving that truck. He turned around to look behind him while he was backing up and the steering wheel popped off like it had been duct tapped on. We just looked at each other like...did that really just happen?
Before I buy one to use for a daily driver and take hunting and off roading trips i want to know I am not going to have shit like the OP posted happening or have water leaking in causing me to culture mold all over the place.

Please don't take my post as a dig on the Jeep, I do really like what they offer it. I like them and I may end up ordering one but I will say that if another company that cared about putting out a quality product made something similar, I'd be all over it in an instant.


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