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The way my family drives, all three of our journeys will break through the 200k mile barrier by mid autumn. Rear struts are NOT FUN to change, and I like the aluminium T-stat and the aluminium oil filter housing.... basically ONE TIME and DONE with few worries. But with 3 of these on the road....just don't get me discussing wheel bearing issue, I've replaced or had replaced 10 of the total 12 so far!

I just joined the 200K club (miles) for the first time.  I've had 180's before, but finally turned a two.  😁 2014 DJ SXT 3.6 FWD   Normally we would have traded this car for a new by now, but I'm having trouble accepting the prices on new cars (bronco sport, escape, equinox, blazer, ...).  Dodge has nothing and I'm not a Jeep guy.  So we've been holding out. The DJ is in the top 2 of the best cars we ever owned. It was definitely the right car, at the right time, at the right price, for us (new in 2014).  Another reason for holding out buying new is I really like the 3.6 6 banger engine in the DJ.  Its just smoooooth, with enough extra when needed.  New cars are 4 bangers with turbo, and even a 3 cylinder.  No way can I own a 3.  (Anything with a 6 cylinder options out at far more than I want to spend.)   Its had several of the typical DJ issues: been through 2 thermostats, power steering hoses and cooler, TCC solenoid, the front allusive squeak, and I think I'm due to replace the oil cooler for a second time.  Relatively speaking these are minor problems and I've learned to do the repairs myself.   I'm going to shoot for at least another 3 years so its due for a second round of maintenance: trans fluid, plugs, battery, serpentine, PVC, and tires.  It is getting a bit bouncy too.  We'll see...   Hopefully I haven't cursed myself by speaking nicely about the car (spoken as I spin 3 times, face north, make a cross with my fingers, and spit into the wind to thwart off gremlins.)

To all our members to the North of the USA border, may you all have a SAFE and ENJOYABLE holiday with friends, family and your DJ's  

I did two years ago. If never apart the taper fit needs lots of force to separate. I have a really old steering wheel puller that fit into the tight recess.   Removing without damaging is the hard part. Harbor Freight has some unusual pullers, that are cheap enough for one off use.   Cowling plastic would be cheap from auto recycler if you are replacing broken plastic.  

Hi. Has anyone ever removed their front wiper arms? If so, how did you do it? I’ve been trying to get mine off so I can realign my wiper arms since the driver side wiper keeps hitting the A pillar because of it being too high when in the park position.   I tried using a wiper arm puller and it wouldn’t fit because of the cowl panel, and then I made the stupid mistake of trying to force it to fit and then ended up cracking the plastic on the cowl panel.   Any suggestions?

Ashley must run Uber or some kind of delivery driving. The journey 2.4 is not the self distructing tiger shark four cylinder for sure. Most people do a crank sensor and electronic throttle body by 100-150k miles. Cooling system manifold tends to leak by then as well. Not a difficult repair.    I wonder how many transmissions and and if starter still original, water pump?  Daughter in laws 2.4 oil pan also rotted out by 120k. It's only at 150k miles now, slight oil usage. It works pretty hard in the big journey body. Simple can be good in the automotive world.    The hour meter in the guage cluster should still be recording in the high milage 2.4 journey. Could do an approx milage calculation using that. 

Well we went out together and the module did NOT "freeze up", but instead connected to MY phone with no service bars. During a stop light I switched to her phone in settings screen and got service bars by the phone icon on the main screen. We did not try making any calls thru either phone setting, nor had anyone try to call us during our "outing". I guess such is life with modern technology according to how old/young that technology is! 🤔🙁

Oh... is that all 🤣🤣🤣

So just to make clear, there is NO failure of the HFM/Bluetooth module.    I checked the '13 for preferred phone setting and set the wifes phone as preferred. The '17 was already set to her phone as she is mostly driving it now. This situation only happened when we were together with both the phones at the same time in the '13. going out today together again with the '17 and will see what happens in that car with both phones.

I have a 2017 2.4l engine that has over 650k miles. I do not know exact because it stops counting mileage at 999,999km which is 621369mi i bought this vehicle in September of 2022 with 36,xxx, and by August of 2025 it no longer counted miles. Biweekly oil changes. Alternator replacement 1 time, spark plugs changed at 200,000k and spark plugs and ignition coils changed at 580k mi. Had a check engine light for p0420 from about 180,000 miles cleared code daily till I finally replaced it when I needed throttle body around 560k mi. These are the only repairs I made on this vehicle. Still drives great but I have noticed an oil leak from pan gasket in the last 70k miles.