The 30-day fix-me list

[jantrit]

Went out to the rental car this morning and said hello to the hamster who just glared menacingly at me...he knew what was coming. So I get in and start the thing up and have a coolant light staring back at me. WTF!?! I mean seriously? Late for work already, having to deal with a pi$$ed of hamster for and engine and now a warning light? Then I noticed that, well that's odd the light is blue. What the hell does a blue coolant looking warning light mean? I figured maybe it was wiper fluid out so threw some washer fluid in it...nope. So there I am in in the drive way with my iphone looking up the owners manual for a Versa. It is a "Low Temperature indicator Light." What the hell were they thinking? Lets put in a warning light that comes on under normal expected conditions. I mean I can't think of a time when I'd be driving down the road and be worried that my engine has suddenly gotten too cold.

Ugh...round two with the hamster in the morning. :-(

[cico7]

If it starts, drive it. Call the rental co after you get to work and let them figure it out.

[jantrit]

If it starts, drive it. Call the rental co after you get to work and let them figure it out.

Was working as designed. Someone thought it would be a good idea to put a warning light in for something that is totally expected.

[jantrit]

Thought I'd throw an update out there. Got the Hemi back on Friday. They are replacing the windshield with a factory one that will have the rain sensor and think that will fix the headlight issues. The parts get here on Monday. The coolant leak was coming from the thermostat housing, they fixed that. They found a leak in the rear pinion seal and fixed that as well. Carmax had to send it to the local Jeep dealership to figure out the headlight issue and Jeep did the other work as well.

Now the more interesting part. The Carmax service rep said that there wasn't anything due at 60k miles. There was no need to replace the dif fluid, trans, transfer case until 90k unless it was a fleet use vehicle or heavy towing / off road. I'm having it all done anyway since I have no idea what the previous owner did with it and it would give me peace of mind knowing all the fluids are fresh. That and I have to give it back to them on monday to put in the windshield anyway. What do you guys think? 90k before a fluid change in a QD-II system seems like a lot of miles. What are your thoughts?

[Sal-XK]

Change the fluid he is on something that guy. he's must be assuming all the maintenance was done including your 60k mile service and the service is all up to date.


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[jantrit]

No they didn't do the 60k when they took the car in. He said the website they use to determine what maintenance is needed didn't recommend to do change the fluids etc. To be honest though I can't fault them for following what their information said. They have been very good in fixing my other issues and putting me in a rental / loaner when they work on the car. Overall customer service has been great but they are just off a bit on what the maintenance schedule should be.

[Sal-XK]

Considering all there doing paying for some fluid changes is no big deal sounds like your coming out on top.


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[superacerc]

You guys are hillarious..... All the new small cars have a "NOT WARMED UP JUST YET" blue coolant light. It's pretty silly. When it goes out after a few minutes of driving it's just telling you it's done warming up the engine. If it turns red you have a problem. Just another thing to fix I say. Hope everything turns out ok with the XK.

[jantrit]

Thought I'd give an update.....

Took the XK back to them on Monday so they could put the new window / rain sensor on it. Also told them to do the 60k service. They didn't have a loaner again so Hertz picked me up and I've been in a Nissan Altima since Monday night. Tuesday they got the windshield in but then didn't get it back from Jeep in time to do the service. They did the service on it today except they had the wrong fluid for the diffs so they ordered in the right fluid and will finish that up tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be back in my XK tomorrow night.

[Sal-XK]

Well good news is you should be in good shape when you finally get it back.