Was driving to work this morning, driving at about 70mph on the freeway and out of the blue, my traction control and check engine lights came on. When I got to work, I shut the engine off and restarted. The traction control light went off but the CEL stayed on.

Thought?

 

I read some other posts in the past regarding CEL. In most cases, it had to do with the gas cap not being secured correctly. If it is something as simple as that, you're good to go. If not, I would check your battery. With temperatures dropping, it is not uncommon for older batteries to begin to fail. If not, the battery, you could always go to Autozone or local part store and hame them run the tester to see if you are getting any engine codes.

Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Yep, the gas cap was the 1st thing I thought of too. Was not the issue. Mine is a 2013 JKU with only 2,000 or so miles, so should not be an old battery, although new batteries do fail.....

I tried the sequence described in some other posts to get the codes, but I could not get that to work. Maybe that was only valid for the older models?

 

Without fear of being absolutely flamed like I was in another post for making this suggestion (and it's already been suggested once, in here) --a code reader is a worthy investment. Places like autozone will let you borrow one to plug in to the Jeep in the parking lot, but it's also nice to have around for questions like this. They're not very expensive.

The CEL will also illuminate for the 2013 oil pressure sensor issue, not just gas cap and emissions stuff. I know this because we got a CEL with P-code for the oil pressure sensor issue stored in our 2013 and apparently it's a common issue in the 2013's. The only way to know is to read the code and find out.

There is supposedly a trick to reading the code on the dash, but IIRC it doesn't allow you to clear the code from there.

 

I made a quick trip over to the dealer at lunch time. It was a failed cam position sensor. They had one in stock and swapped it out for me.
I sure hope reliability will be better than this in future.

 

Chrysler had an issue with these things a while back and were replacing them commonly. Prob just finally caught up to you. Only other time you get that code is if you have induced water or debris into the engine and gets into the lubrication system then the cam phasers can't do their job to adjust the timing. But glad to know it was something that simple and they took care of it.

 

Could be although this is a couple month old brand new 2013. It is not my daily driver and it has yet to be driven off the pavement, literally and only driven in the rain once. Hopefully just a fluke thing. I'm a little discouraged right now with Chrysler products in general. I have a Dodge 2500 Cummins also. It has only 62000 miles on it. Last week, I had to spend $1000 replacing the oil pan on the engine. It rusted out!!! The month before I spent over $2000 on ball joints, tie rods, steering box and alignments. It is actually the second time I have had to rebuild the entire front end. So far it has been 4 times back to the dealer with this new Jeep. Twice were for alignment issues which I blame on an incompetent dealer. Then the transmission line recall, then the cam position sensor.

Time will tell I guess.