How to Overide Sentry Key Starter Problem
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JK Super Freak
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,623
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From: Lawrenceville, NJ
How to Overide Sentry Key Starter Problem
K, had the JK at the stealership for a total of around two weeks...
The problem...Sometimes...the jeep won't start, no cranking, nothing, but every thing else works fine.
The wife drives it....it won't start, battery's ok, etc...they tow it in..."Fix it"...we get it back...it strands her at work, they tow it AGAIN....they "FIX" it again...we get it back, it won't start in our driveway...they tow it.....again....they fix it, again....we go to pick it up, it won't start...in the stealership's service parking lot...they DO NOT have to tow it this time...we just keep the loaner. That was LAST WEEK.
They spent "Days" in contact with Chrysler...and, the verdict...its not always fixable...its just a built-in problem....and a few JK's have it...and "Chrysler is working on a solution ASAP" (Selling Jeep?)
The solution if this happens to YOU, and you DO NOT feel like going through this agonizing process?
Pull the firiggin fuse for 30 seconds....then push it back in...and its cured, at least so you can start it, THIS TIME.
Here's my crappy write up:
1. Open the hood, find the fuse box next to the battery, open it.
2. There's a large white fuse case with two little 60 amp blade fuses in it....pull up the white part, leave it up for 30 seconds.
3. Push the white part back down, close the box and hood, start the jeep.
The fuse box next to the battery
Push the two little tabs in to open the top of the fuse box
The location of that white fuse you pull, next to a large yellow fuse you don't.
Close up (Blurry) of white fuse next to yellow fuse....I wrote on the fuse so my wife could tell which one if she had to.
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I hope this saves some poor soul a few tows when it would have been a bad time, etc.
If anything's still unclear...feel free to ask.
The problem...Sometimes...the jeep won't start, no cranking, nothing, but every thing else works fine.
The wife drives it....it won't start, battery's ok, etc...they tow it in..."Fix it"...we get it back...it strands her at work, they tow it AGAIN....they "FIX" it again...we get it back, it won't start in our driveway...they tow it.....again....they fix it, again....we go to pick it up, it won't start...in the stealership's service parking lot...they DO NOT have to tow it this time...we just keep the loaner. That was LAST WEEK.
They spent "Days" in contact with Chrysler...and, the verdict...its not always fixable...its just a built-in problem....and a few JK's have it...and "Chrysler is working on a solution ASAP" (Selling Jeep?)
The solution if this happens to YOU, and you DO NOT feel like going through this agonizing process?
Pull the firiggin fuse for 30 seconds....then push it back in...and its cured, at least so you can start it, THIS TIME.
Here's my crappy write up:
1. Open the hood, find the fuse box next to the battery, open it.
2. There's a large white fuse case with two little 60 amp blade fuses in it....pull up the white part, leave it up for 30 seconds.
3. Push the white part back down, close the box and hood, start the jeep.
The fuse box next to the battery
Push the two little tabs in to open the top of the fuse box
The location of that white fuse you pull, next to a large yellow fuse you don't.
Close up (Blurry) of white fuse next to yellow fuse....I wrote on the fuse so my wife could tell which one if she had to.
______________________________
I hope this saves some poor soul a few tows when it would have been a bad time, etc.
If anything's still unclear...feel free to ask.
Thread Starter
JK Super Freak
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,623
Likes: 5
From: Lawrenceville, NJ
I tried to delete and/or move this to write-ups....or at least spell Starter right in the thread title typo....but I'm a cave man, so now I have about three threads with the same thing....admin...help?
Last edited by TEEJ; Jul 9, 2008 at 09:33 PM.
