2003 Grand Cherokee Overland - Page 2

02psuoverland · 02-08-2011, 03:41 PM

hello everyone,

I have an 02 overland that has had everything listed here repaired or it is still broken i.e. driver seat heater, heating module. To make it worse my 02 has 57k on it. The most recent repairs are the power steering system everyone mentions and the pcu-ecu.

The wrench who repaired the power steering tells me there is a bearing going out in either the front diff or the tranny (as mentioned a few times here).

My question to you all is this, after all of these known problems have been fixed is it worth keeping or does it never stop?

It's paid for and like everyone says awesome inside, so i don't really want to sell it if I'm "out of the woods"?

thank you all for any advice

Mikey_Overland · 06-24-2012, 12:19 PM

I have a 2002 overland with 220,000km and this things an iron horse. I bought the truck with 165,000km. Only things i had to replace so far was window regulator (becuase my wife decide to roll down the window in -35 degree weather), Oil pressure sending unit, muffler, tie rod, and a tune up of course other then that no transmission problems at all, thing runs great i put about 180kms a day on it driving from work to home.

hammerz71 · 06-24-2012, 01:45 PM

I've had ALL the common stuff - blend doors, window regulators, seat heaters, coil spring, split radiator, saggy springs, squished isolators and now I'm doing a complete rebuild of the engine thanks to another 4.7 flaw as I had a valve seat just drop out of a head and do MAJOR HAVOC to the engine - I have a "carnage/rebuild" thread around here somewhere.

I'm hoping after this rebuild I've seen the last of the "common" crap and I can at least get another 50k miles of pretty much just normal maintenance stuff.

This is my seventh Jeep product - had a J10 pickup when I was a kid, three of the ex's daily drivers were GCs and I've had two Wranglers, but this is the first one that was anywhere near 10 years old and had up around 100k miles on it - so I guess I've always traded in the other ones before they had a chance to implode on me - never had much of an issue with any of them before - that I didn't cause (off-roading) LOL...

gtg413i · 06-24-2012, 11:57 PM

I paid about $15k for my 03 overland with 33k miles. Try to find all those things wrong with it or that will go wrong- all happened to me within a year- and try to talk them down to about $13k.

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**pinky2252s** · 06-25-2012, 12:30 AM

I can't believe I read the first page with out looking at the date...

Why are you guys posting in this thread? Just wondering. Its for a guy who was asking questions about and overland that he was going to buy in 2008.

FAlfani81 · 06-25-2012, 11:48 AM

I've owned my 04 overland for about 5 years. I got it with 35k and I'll be at 70k by the end of the week. Only issue I ever had in it was a pin hole in the radiator that wasn't really the Jeeps fault and was covered under my warranty. And the Auto Dim drivers side mirror started to leak its magic fluid and needed to be addressed.

In all honesty... they are the only issues I've had with it! Maybe I'm just lucky.

Other little annoyances are an occasional stumble at idle that happens so rarely its barely even worth bringing up. It does it like 3 times a year at most. And it randomly likes to turn the AC on weather you want it on or not if the outside temp is 54deg or above.

hammerz71 · 06-25-2012, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by FAlfani81

I've owned my 04 overland for about 5 years. I got it with 35k and I'll be at 70k by the end of the week. Only issue I ever had in it was a pin hole in the radiator that wasn't really the Jeeps fault and was covered under my warranty. And the Auto Dim drivers side mirror started to leak its magic fluid and needed to be addressed.

In all honesty... they are the only issues I've had with it! Maybe I'm just lucky.

Other little annoyances are an occasional stumble at idle that happens so rarely its barely even worth bringing up. It does it like 3 times a year at most. And it randomly likes to turn the AC on weather you want it on or not if the outside temp is 54deg or above.

I bought my '02 in '06 with 61k on it and up until it hit 98k miles I only had to deal with the blend doors (which were gone when I bought it and the seller dropped the price accordinly) and the heated seats which were intermittent at best when I bought it. From 61k till 98K I only had to deal with the driver's window regulator - then all hell started breaking loose at 98k. The past 4000 miles is when I've had to replace radiator, springs, isolators, both rear calipers/rotors, coil spring and now the engine rebuild.

BWith only 70k on your '04, all I can say about the future is - brace yourself, LOL...