Ok,
So I am a new (used) Jeep owner, and I bought a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, Fully loaded...I have a few questions
1) There is a plastic plate attached under the shifter knob, on the Shifter Control, its like a cover plate so you do not have to see the greased parts down below, and somehow this plate brok away, leaving only a sliver left around the knobs pole. Can someone tell me what this plate is called, and are the easy to replace or should I head to the dealer for this?
2) One of my two support struts for the back hatch(door) is not working at all, it will not open the hatch up for me, I have to open it all the way manually, again is this something simple to pick up and install myself?
3) The Navigation system...hmmm...worked great at first, then after a really hot day I am getting a disc reading error, tried everything and nothing worked. Took the disc out for 2 weeks, put it back in and then it was working again...no reason....now the car has sat for a week unattended, and sure enough the darn thing has got a disc error again. Any suggestions?

I know everyone will say, its all covered under warrenty, however I bought the Jeep after it was returned to the dealer from a 3 year Lease. A seperate company then sells them, so the dealer is really not invovled. I purchased a warranty from this company but I am not sure what their Bumper to Bumper warranty really covers...I think i need to get the part numbers first to know if each item is covered. This brings me to another problem, where online can I find part numbers for very specific parts as mentioned above?

Any and all help provided would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks

Blogs are weird. I guess it's my turn for one.

So I live in a fairly large house with two girl roommates at the moment. Not what you think, they're just roommates. It's a big house and my friend's parents (of one of the girls) own it. People have come and gone over the past few years and we usually start looking online for new prospects after they move out. Having the house full gives us a huge rent buffer for making upgrades to the house even though our rates are fixed regardless of occupancy.

Anyway, my friend finds this one guy online who's an ex-motorcycle racer. We screen everyone thoroughly in person at a local restaurant to get an idea of what they are like first. He seemed like your typical upbeat 26 year old and shared some similar interests in our hobbies, so all appeared well -- even more so compared to others we had met in the past. This was around mid-August, just a few weeks ago. We let him come over and check the place out even though it's slightly messy from renovating the upstairs bathroom, a furry 115-lb malamute and worn carpeting. Hey, the house was built in the 20's. It's not a dump at all, it just needs a few minor touches here and there. The 180 degree turn started the very next day.

This guy cannot do ANYTHING on his own. I don't know if he was born with a silver spoon up his *** sideways or what, but he's absolutely helpless. He couldn't rent a U-Haul because of an apparent accident with one some years back so they won't rent to him. Fine. I pay the $75 (which I would normally never ever do), help load the thing (his old room was littered with junk), drive it to our place, help move his******upstairs and take it back the next day as well as top it off as per rental agreement. He draws some sort of disability unemployment so money isn't a huge issue apparently and pays me back promptly. He drives an '06 Charger with the 5.7L Hemi (also littered with junk -- packaging, receipts, clothes, half-empty Gatorade bottles, etc).

He was moving into my friend's room as it has a lot of floorspace and she was moving one room down the hall. He proceeded to whine about how dirty it was (she'd just got off work and started to move stuff without a chance to clean yet) and wasn't satisfied with the perfectly working vacuum that we had for upstairs and storms out to buy a new one. It'll take too much space to type, so I'll just list the other things he proceeded to complain and question about over the next few days:

-the cable modem and wireless .g-router being in my room (I have the only hard-wired PC in the house, everyone else usually has laptops)
-not being able to use his router in his room (it's the same damn model with "powerboost".. oooooh)
-he 'only' gets a 3-bar wireless signal
-the bathroom is 90% done and totally usable, just needs the last bits of paint and trim
-no grass in the back, so the dog drags in a little dirt on his paws into the linoleum kitchen
-leaving the back door open so the dog can come in and out because he gets hot (duh, malamute) but a few flies get in
-the basement being unfinished (hello, again, 80+ year old house)
-I hung up his stupid ******ing plasma TV and two large-framed pictures (of himself at the track) perfectly aligned and level with just a tape so that they were equidistant and centered from the objects around them -- he re-hung one picture too high, took the other down and tried to talk me into remounting the plasma mount a little to the right so it was dead-center with his bed. 16 inches on center? Not happening, bud.
-there being a few dishes in the sink from someone's dinner the night before. Not that I like seeing dirty dishes either but having seen the inside of his car and his old room; pot-kettle-black there, mother******er.
-the condition of the carpet. We know, it's old. My friend's mom was going to clean it that weekend. So I suggest we just tear it out and resurface the original oak hardwood underneath as we did with the bedrooms, hoping it's not in too bad of condition. He goes on about how he knows how to do all that and will help out -- never did a damned thing.

There's probably more, but that's enough of a start. It got even better after that. He invites me out to a lake for some big camping and BBQ party at this big resort but I didn't really feel like it so he goes with his dad and a bunch of friends. He shacks up with some stupid chick from Montana who he met there and it wets his noodle enough to want to meet up with here again which brings us to this weekend. His wallet was left unsecure in his tent and stolen so his cards and accounts were frozen. I know he gets paid weekly for doing jack ******, so I lent him 500 bones to get by and pay bills until the next week. I then get talked into a hiking/camping trip around the same area with the prospects of there being some attractive girls meeting up. I'm no man-whore and have pretty damn high standards, so the possibility was enough to pique my interest but I wasn't going to make it a priority of the trip. If I meet someone cool, right on. If not (more than likely) I'll still have a good time just getting out of the house to camp and hike which I haven't been able to do since my Jeep was stolen last yeat.

I'm told we're going to split the cost of this little adventure. $64 in the Charger and we're off Wednesday night to the lake. Plans change without my input and we're supposed to meet this chick + friends further east near a town that he thinks is on the border but it's just an hour from the lake (i.e., we have to drive really ******ing far as Washington is a good 7 or 8 hours wide from coast to Idaho border). We're a little inland so it's more like 5-6 but still... damn far especially at night in a Charger with no high beams and a driver who has A.D.D. and texts on his stupid Blackberry like the world might end tomorrow.

He gets pulled over about an hour into the trip for doing 88 in a 65. Of course he claims there was no way... oh, and his license is expired. And apparently suspended for a DUI 4 years ago. I heard some rambling about how it was supposed to be suspended upon incident but for whatever reason it wasn't process until just a few days before we left but I think it smells like bull******. So I get to drive this POS now. Great. We get to the lake, set up camp, crash and leave the next morning after a cafe breakfast.

This is a *******ed novel so I'll sum it up:

-I end up paying $33 for stupid wireless Blackberry internet so he can hook up his laptop
-we got to Coeur d'Alene and spent ******ing hours driving around to get a driver disc for the program since all the wi-fi spots were as slow as crap
-we get groceries and he leaves his expired+suspended license there unknowingly
-practically kills my cell phone battery from extended tech support call time for his phone internet problem
-gets us lost looking for a bumble******campground in pitch black (no high beams, remember)
-loses some LCD screen protectors for his new Canon xsi DSLR even though he doesn't know how to take pictures for ******. Just buys******because he gets free money and thinks expensive is the best way to go.
-also loses his camera manual, a lens cap, ipod nano and other various things over the next 4 days; nano and cap were in his *******ed backpack
-I bring up having to pay for gas again on our first refuel (I agreed on this trip to the lake, not ******ing Idaho but I don't mention this yet) and he gets all hostile and defensive about paying cash for everything else (oooh yeah, daddy even gave you 200 for the trip)
-I end up paying for over $220 in gas alone and driving 1000 miles on a trip that should have cost me no more than $100 total and covering 300-400 miles
-his slut friend shows up alone and they fight that night and all weekend
-******es at me for not pulling over on a blind 45 MPH corner (I was looking for a side road or a straight) because she was sick in the back seat from popping 2 Vicodin on an empty stomach and washing them down with a latte on the way to some stupid town I knew would be a waste of time. Like vomit would have made the interior any dirtier.
-asks about 7 or 8 questions about the intricate details of a cafe hamburger in a town with a population of 2000 people
-drives the girl completely insane on a trip 2 hours north to get a refill on his meds by complaining about her driving the whole way because she might not get them back in time for im to take some pictures of the sunset with an $800 camera he doesn't even know how to use (thankfully I avoided this trip but I knew that would happen)
-locks the keys in the car the next day before I'm supposed to make the same drive the next day because they couldn't fill the prescription for more than one day's worth due to its classification until the documents are faxed over. I popped the trunk and snaked my arm over the seat with a screwdriver to pop the rear door lock; I am a god
-gets in a huge fight with her on said trip, calls her '******ed up in the head' and other such lovely names which is set off after another fuel stop where she gets the wrong kind of jerky for him. Of course they are kissing and hugging and making up shortly after getting there
-the rotors are warped to hell on that POS and the road to/from our camp is a twisting 28 mile hilly******with narrow single lanes, blind corners, a deer populace and loose gravel. In a 5.7L Hemi. With no high beams.
-contemplates elopement with girl to which she says yes, I can't tell if she is drunk or not and he's the lightest of lightweights. Later at the bar that night he asks me what her name was.
-racks up over $650 in total debt to me and I find out he's myspaced a friend of his about moving in with him just hours after we get back. 400 miles all the way back after stopping for his worthless license, making it home in 7.5 hours with hellacious Labor Day accident traffic interwoven with returning DMB concert fans -- I am a *******ed machine.
-pisses off my friend with choice comments about the house when he's done absolutely nothing to help thus far. All he does is sit in bed, eat popcorn+Cheetos, drink Gatorade and watch movies at 85dB throughout the night in a house with thin walls while he collects free money in the mail
-asks for me to get his car taken in for brakes and oil change (I assume before he figured he would be moving out)

Christ what a worthless piece of ******. By far my worst weekend ever but in a way I'm glad I went, because it made me feel 100x better about myself through realizing that no matter how bad my quirks and flaws are, I will never be a fraction of the ******* he is. Supposedly he's moving out today and should be having two UE checks coming in the mail (I hope tomorrow while he's gone so I can hold them hostage). I found his buddy's myspace profile that he's moving in with and both his mom's and dad's addresses and phone numbers.

For those interested in having some fun with this piece of ******, here's his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/codiehuston (phone number available upon request).

I was going to give him the ultimatum of not only paying me back but for the incurred extra fuel as well as I didn't agree to go clear to Idaho and if he didn't, I would see him as a non-existant ghost if he continued to stay. I would also tell all of his friends as well as his parents about what a worthless sack of******he is with collaboration of my friend. Now I'm actually kind of curious as to what the terms of his moving out of his last place were...

I'm gonna try and organize a wheelin trip with as many jeeps as we can get! I'm outa Greenville S.C. I'm willing to go to GA, NC, TN,! Let's just do it! there are alot of great rides on here from mild to insaine! Hit me up if anyone is interested! make a suggestion on a location and possible camping spots. I'm thinkin a fall run which is pretty much upon us!

Life is too short so lets get goin!

I have a 1996 Cherokee classic and I am starting to build it up for off-roading. although most of its in good shape, im afraid the rear axle will not be able to handle on trails. Its a Chrysler 8.25", c-clip, non-ABS, 27-spline axleshafts, with 3.73:1 gear ratios. I am looking to upgarde it and possibly swap it for better. any advice for what to look for would be helpful.

First blog here! Thought I'd list my newly revised list of thing I am saving for.

-3.5 inch rubicon express super flex kit/ full leaf spring packs.

-Matching RE monotubes

-Cragar d windows, 15x8.

-BFG All terrains, 31x10.50r15

-Re hackntap

-Junk yard xj front driveshaft

-Spicer flange

-RE track bar, adjustable.

The lift, shocks, rims and tires will be bought in steps, and the lift won't go on until I have all of it.

More stuff-

-Jcr prerunner bumper, with side protection, tie ins.

-C4x4 rear bumper, with tire carrier.

-Some form of tcase protection.

-I plan on ditching the teeth eventually. It wont fit well with the prerunner.

Thanks for reading!

I got my 1993 jeep xj on a saturday and in 4 days I broke 3 things.

Sunday: I want to show off my new toy to my friends so I gather 4 buddies and 4 suv's van's and pickup's and head out to the fields. I start off testing the roll limits of my jeep with turns and skids. I end up doing doughnuts so hard that I dig 12 inch ruts in the ground with a dirt cloud a 1/4 mile high (not my first time in a 4x4) and the exhaust falls off!!! To make matters worse my power steering high pressure hose cracks and is spraying fluid all over my engine. So I limp home and order the hose.

Tuesday: I get the hose and install it fill it with fluid and take it for a spin....(literally)
I pick up a couple different buddies and go to the same field and do more of those doughnuts. I eventually get to the point where I dont have to turn the wheel Im just spinning on a dime(like a monster truck). When I look down at my gauge cluster my thermostat jumps one full rotation from 3/4 and My radiator explodes. So I call my friend with a wrangler 4x4 and he pulls me to my friends house that owns the land I was on and it sits there over night. In the morning I have it towed to my house where I check to see if the motor is siezed (its not) and pull the radiator out. it turns out the radiator was clogged to hell and wasnt flowing coolant to the engine. so its off the junk yards to get a radiator and then the field to break somethng else!!!

I have a 94 cherokee country, and my neighbor and i have rhno lined the inside already, but i need new ideas. What kind of lift kit should i get, do i need to buy new drive shafts if i go higher than 3.5 inches?? I am looking for the best 3.5 inch lift i can get for my country that is in a 600 to 700 dollar price rang

i need help i have a 1995 jeep cherokee i have a bad wobble in the front end i have new shocks new 3 inch lift new rims and tires i have had it alligned tacken it to two mecks i need help in the worst way at 45 mph it starts shimming bad enough it wants to take the steering wheel from me

what would i be getting myself in to taking a 1988 jeep wrangler with the 2.5 and putting a chevy 350 in it

Just letting people know that due to recent events im back here on the threads of JF. That is all.