I think my dealer is F@&:$ing me
JK Junkie
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 2,318
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From: New Hampshire
i dont get the idea
of making parts that prematurely fail such as ball joints , axle joints , cheap bushings , 30cent plastic bushing holding your transfercase cable on , manufacturing a u joint that cant be changed with out replacing the whole drive shaft . At the tune of $ 850.00 for the part alone
Is this realy promoting long Gevity to the jeep ? Or expecting a lot of jeep owners to want to repeat purchasing another one over and over . Seems the old jeeps had it better when you could change out parts with ease.
Is this realy promoting long Gevity to the jeep ? Or expecting a lot of jeep owners to want to repeat purchasing another one over and over . Seems the old jeeps had it better when you could change out parts with ease.
Last edited by jeepmojo; Feb 27, 2014 at 02:35 PM.
JK Freak
Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Seattle
Have to admit I was surprised the first time I crawled under my new JK grease gun in hand and couldn't find a SINGLE Zerk fitting anywhere.
I really searched too, none to be found. Even my wife's little ATV has half a dozen grease fittings.
I really searched too, none to be found. Even my wife's little ATV has half a dozen grease fittings.
JK Junkie
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 2,318
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From: New Hampshire
thats right ! no need for this
put a few greese fittings on a drive shaft that cost nearly a grand !
Last edited by jeepmojo; Feb 28, 2014 at 06:11 PM.
JK Freak
Joined: May 2011
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
It's cause 9 outa 10 people today can't do anything on there own and have no idea what a geese gun is. If they didn't make seal joint the way they do now part would wear out a lot faster.
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Jun 2012
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From: Marysville, WA
To be fair though, I would still have expected that at least the major grease-able points would still have zerks.
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Milwaukee,WI
If the sole concern for these engineers is to make money (which I wholly agree with), how are they best served by intentionally producing cars that have reputations for failing as soon as the warranty runs out?
Of the 10 best selling cars in 2013, half of them are produced by Toyota and Honda, both of which have reputations of consistently running their cars reliably into the hundreds of thousands of miles (my son recently sold a Civic that had 220,000 on it and I'm pretty sure that it'll still be running like a top next year). It's largely this reputation for reliability that causes people to become brand-loyal to them and return to them when it's time to trade in their old car.
Of the 10 best selling cars in 2013, half of them are produced by Toyota and Honda, both of which have reputations of consistently running their cars reliably into the hundreds of thousands of miles (my son recently sold a Civic that had 220,000 on it and I'm pretty sure that it'll still be running like a top next year). It's largely this reputation for reliability that causes people to become brand-loyal to them and return to them when it's time to trade in their old car.
JK Junkie
Joined: Mar 2012
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From: Denver, CO
I encourage you to read up on the revenues created by replacement parts. Remember when the big 3 were in trouble? Replacement parts kept them rolling through for a while whereas sales were significantly down. Do you really believe this isn't a business strategy? Rule #1, keep them coming back. Now, sarcasm alert! go pet your unicorn. 
JK Freak
Joined: May 2011
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
Total agree but when ever you have to replace parts best to just upgrade to something that is greaseable and will give you longer life out of the part