2008 Impulse purchase
 

Well I know I made a poor decision by not researching this, but I hope I didn't make a bad decision by purchasing a 2008. I crashed my Grand Cherokee right before Christmas (cow walking down the middle of the road at night) so I picked this up the next day to replace it. So far so good, I'm very happy with it. I think some de badging is in order.

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:confused:...now if I can just remember how to upload photos....

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debadging is actually free if you got it from a GM dealer or just bring it there and they will debadge for you. there is TSB for debadging. congrats and and you will love it more than your grand cherokee. how many miles?

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133 K miles on it, but living on the western slope of Colorado, most of the miles were probably highway. I picked it up from the Ford dealership though, so I'm sure I would have to pay
To have it debadged. But I'm pretty handy so I'm not too worried. Just waiting for it to warm up outside. Then again some snow to play with the 4WD would be nice. Of course I can just head up to the mountains to cover that.

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133k miles? make sure everything has been serviced for the 100k mile maintenance which includes among other things; coolant, transfer case oil, differential oil(front and back), transmission oil, brake drain and fill, etc. so, you're assured of happy continued driving. I bought mine new and left nothing to spare when I did my 100k service and now at 153k. original pads replaced at 138k with meat left.

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Thanks for the advise, I'll be getting those things done since I don't have previous service records.

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congratulations on your purchase. You will love the performance up and down mountains.

If it ever does throw a light, Check Engine, Service Hybrid, Brakes, and the bonging of the chimes, do not simply clear codes and see what might come back. It's an old habit. Many hybrid systems can have a once-in-10,000 mile hiccup. Any time a light pops up codes are stored somewhere. More than that something called "freeze frames". Freeze frames are a built in snap shot of what was going on when the hiccup happened. By capturing this on-board data, you can solve the problem much faster.

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Thank you. I'm sure it's going to do better than the grand cherokee did, although it did fine with the popup that we have. As far as the freeze frames, is that something that can be looked at with a scanner, or something it needs to go to the dealership to download ?

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There are some scanners that can get freeze frames. And some dealers don't know how to get them.

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Hi .I'm going to look at a 08 with 112000 on it with new factory dealership installed motor .wondering how yours is doing, ? Any issues?
Would greatly appreciate any insite.
Thank you very much.