Please help!!
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JK Enthusiast
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Please help!!
So after celebrating my 21st birthday yesterday I was going to the airport this morning to catch my flight to my sister's wedding when my jeep died. At 70 mph my automatic jeep "popped out of gear." the tach rose redlined and would not apply any power. The ESP, ABS, and lightning bolt light all illuminated. I pulled over, attempted to restart with no success. After 2 minutes everything died and I had no lights or emergency flashers. After waiting 10 minutes I now have emergency flashers, but nothing else. It will attempt to crank over, but just dies. I just replaced the battery last week. Any ideas what could cause this please. Having to have it towed back now. Not a good day...
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Could be a bad TIPM (Total Integrated Power Module.) Try disconnecting your battery for a couple of minutes and reconnect them and see if that temporarily solves it until you get it to a dealer for the fix. Sorry for your troubles and happy belated BDAY...
Last edited by aldaman; Jan 31, 2012 at 01:41 AM.
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Here's and old post I found. Hope this helps...
https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...ght=start+fuse
https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...ght=start+fuse
There's a fuse that blows when the static electricity from the keys with the chips sometimes internally sparks the anti-theft 'puter, and it poops.
The dealers are on to this, they do not know how to actually FIX the problem, but, they DO know that resetting the fuse buys time. (You go away and leave them alone...)
BTW - YOU can re-set it yourself the next time.
PS - the starters themselves can go blewy too, and fry out due to ANOTHER bad QA/QC issue...mine melted due to a bad connection from the factory...at about 6K on the odo. (Hard to see, its under a factory "skid plate")
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 dealers are on to this, they do not know how to actually FIX the problem, but, they DO know that resetting the fuse buys time. (You go away and leave them alone...)
BTW - YOU can re-set it yourself the next time.
PS - the starters themselves can go blewy too, and fry out due to ANOTHER bad QA/QC issue...mine melted due to a bad connection from the factory...at about 6K on the odo. (Hard to see, its under a factory "skid plate")
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.
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Got home, started it using a jump box. Took the jump box off and it still ran. Let it run for 10 min. Turned it off and it fired right up first try with no warning lights on now.
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I know you said you just bought the battery but have it checked out
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OP..I didn't catch what year you have? My 07 manual did some strange things until I added an extra ground wire from battery negative to chassis...its just strange to me that you have these problem right after replacing the battery and the fuse trick, or disconnecting the battery for a few minutes hasn't helped.
In my experience if I ever have a problem with something right after working on it, even if the problems seem unrelated, I go back and check what I did recently. What I'm getting at is, have you gone through and double checked that your terminal connections are truly clean and tight? Auto, manual and regardless of year...it seems to me jk's do some strange things with bad batteries and or poor ground...just something to double check and rule out...either way I hope its easy...and more importantly cheap!
In my experience if I ever have a problem with something right after working on it, even if the problems seem unrelated, I go back and check what I did recently. What I'm getting at is, have you gone through and double checked that your terminal connections are truly clean and tight? Auto, manual and regardless of year...it seems to me jk's do some strange things with bad batteries and or poor ground...just something to double check and rule out...either way I hope its easy...and more importantly cheap!
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no expert but
i had similar problems with other vehicles that was caused by a bad battery cable if its faulty it can cause what seems to be intermitant problems with lights on off starts stalls has you chasing a wild goose sand paper both negitive cable and post
Last edited by jeepmojo; Jan 31, 2012 at 05:26 AM.