Brake system and calipers, warped rotor at 25,000, cv joints bad at 32,000.
I would like it to be fixed, but don't know if they can convince me that is will be "fine".
It will be. Brakes are a common wear and tear item, and 25K on the OEM's isn't really that bad. And CV Joints are pretty straight forward to replace. Everything should be good to go once they fix it. I'm assuming "they" is the dealer.
You give the Liberty a 1 in reliability due to needing to replace normal wear & tear items???!!!
Just another example of grossly unrealistic expectations.
Are you the same person who claims that Toyota's are unreliable???
I hope you are right. My Liberty is at the Dealer and they plan to go over it with a fine tooth comb. I will give it one more chance to be dependable. My main gripe is that we have an 88 Commanche with 150K on it and a 99 Cherokee with 110K on it and they have not needed anything, but routine maintenance... and never left me stranded by the side of a country road... call me spoiled! As a somewhat "delicate" female, I expect a vehicle that I paid good money for to get me back and forth to work each day without stress. Brakes going bad at 25,000, give me a break, if you pardon the pun...95% of my driving is fairly passive country roads and a little bit of I-70 highway... I hit about 4 stop lights in the "big city" on the way to work and I have 5-speed manual and I do know how to slow down without riding the brakes all the time. If I didn't know how to drive these things, the others would be in Jeep Heaven by now (and the old man would ban me from even getting into the thing! Front end going out at 32K...don't get me started...) I might as well ride my mule or drive one of my tractors on the 100 mile round trip. I am just a little disappointed with my Liberty, Patriot Blue by the way! GO TROOPS! Thanks for responding and cheering me on... I haven't given up on her yet and your encouragement may help me thru this! Pleasure chatting with you.
OK, guys! My 2003 Liberty with 32,000 miles and getting darn close to the end of the 36,000 warranty limit!, and has been at the dealers for one whole week now. Problem: extreme washboard ride between 45 and 55. It always pulled to right and tire rotation helped a bit. For a while. Balanced and checked tires and checked alignment... no problems there. Washboard ride. The dealer has replaced the front drive shaft because they said there was a tear in the boot... but that didn't work... they say they don't know what is wrong with it. May be CV joints, but will have to wait for those parts to come in from wherever they can find them to see if that may be the problem. I just have the feeling that the poor thing is dying from "the disposable vehicle syndrome". Discussed trading it in and the big insult was that the dealer offered less than Blue Book on trade-in on an almost brand new vehicle! Explain that one to me! Call me old fashioned, but I learned to drive on a 64 Chevy BelAir Station Wagon with who knows how many miles on it at that time and don't ever remember it having a problem... even went off the road into a soybean field in my misspent youth and well, it survived me and two teenager siblings after me! But that was back in the day! Anyway, what I asking you all for is questions, suggestions, whatever to give to the dealer to get this vehicle back on the road dependably! Thanks!
Is yours an early model 2003? If it is, it might be under the Ball Joint recall. A prematurely wearing ball joint will most certainly cause pulling to the right. If you don't know when it was built, open the drivers door and look on the white sticker for the build date. Sorry to make it sound stupidly easy if you already knew, it's just a lot of people don't know how much information that is actually on that little sticker.
The cure for a Liberty with a washboard ride is to stop driving it on washboard roads.
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