2001 Jeep Cherokee from North America - Comments

We bought A 2001 GJCL. just 5 months ago,AS we test drove the jeep, we noticed that the coolant light was on. not either my husband or me knowing anything about cars and what they do. we get the oil changed and put gas in it. well unknownling are problems were about to begin with the oil pressure. we did put coolant in it at the dealer ship. the thing is we trusted that being a certified vehicle would be just what we needed. We bought the jeep and from then on we had problems with the oil pressure, going to zero. the check gages light would come on, but as soon as we would push the gas it would go off, well we thought that was normal. hahah. dropped to zero, while driving. the jeep started to slow down and it broke down on me I could not start back up. my brother-in -law picked me and my 2 boys up. we had the oil pump fixed. the thing we noticed was that the origional oil pump had an extra hole, once we would cover that extra hole it would work great like is should. when we let go of the hole then there were problems. would not work propperly, we found out and feel that the crysler oil pump may be defected. so hopefuly we fixed the problem. We are trading it in before we have more problems.

GJCL? Grand Jeep Cherokee Limited? um... what? and the Cherokee is a great vehical (mostly due to the 4.0L being in them). I had an old 87' Cherokee with the 4.0L and that thing went and went and went and finally died at 300,000 miles. and then I have friends with 96's and such that are just great vehicals...can't really speak for the newer ones (aka with the "new" front end, but they are all basiclly the same.

Could anyone comment on a 2001 with 129,000 miles? The offering price is $4,200. It is with a small dealership that doesn't know the repair history. Looks good, ran nice, noticed rust under the rear side window.

I have a 2001 jeep cherokee. I had the car since 2002. In 2003 I had to change the sensor, which was six hundred dollars. I took it to a place that didn't know much about jeeps. In 2005 I was having trouble again. I thought it would be a good idea to take it to the Jeep dealership. Bad idea. They charged me six hundred dollars again. I picked it up and the next day the engine light came on! The Jeep dealership looked at it and said it was a different problem!!! They claimed a hose must have fell off, yeah right. After repair the engine light came on again! I brought it down again to find out that there was a leak in the engine. I let it go, now I am having a oil pressure problem so I changed the oil and what happened was ,in the middle of nowhere, the oil gauge went all the way to zero and it said to check gauges. After you step on the gas the pressure goes up. Jeeps are headaches!!!

"Could anyone comment on a 2001 with 129,000 miles? The offering price is $4,200. It is with a small dealership that doesn't know the repair history. Looks good, ran nice, noticed rust under the rear side window."

To get a ballpark idea, go the Kelley Blue Book website, at www.kbb.com. That is pretty high mileage for a 2001, so probably the $4,200 price is fair. As long as you know you're getting a used (very used!), high mile vehicle and don't expect that it will be like buying a new car. Count on making some repairs, so don't complain when you have to get something fixed. For good measure, offer $3,500. You can always count on the dealer adding some padding to the price.