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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    The Q in Chrysler stands for quality.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In my 01 Wrangler, the dash lights are on the same circuit as the tail lights so if your tail light fuse blows you know because your dash lights go off.

    This could be a recall issue but the #1 hobby of newer Jeep owners is adding stupid LED lights everywhere. I would look into that first to eliminate it as an issue.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the dash lights are on the same circuit as the tail lights

    Enguneers.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lot of cars are wired that way. I think it's a safety feature because it's difficult to know when your tail lights don't work but it's impossible to miss the dash lights

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Analog gauges don't disappear. Go back to analog.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, I really sincerely adore the digital gauge I'm my 2012 Honda

    It's just a led "8 segment" display with a few extra segments to make the numerals look really nice. No fancy graphics logic, and I've gotten really spoiled by it, now if I drive anything else I'll miss it lol

    But mine doesn't "disappear" because it's an old Honda and they designed it in a way that isn't dumb 😅

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't go wrong with Honda or Toyota.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's treated me pretty well :)

    I even had a part of the hybrid system fail recently and there was a technical service bulletin for it so the repair itself was free. I'm very glad I got the issue diagnosed independently though even though it cost a little money, the independent shop my mechanic sent me to (he the hybrid system was beyond him) was great, and the dealership was kind of a nightmare.

    Which like, no surprises there lol 😅 the independent shop even left me a cookie, which was cute cause I left them starbursts, so we traded sweets lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Clearly you've never owned a car with a broken speedometer cable, or bad ground for the instrument cluster. Or a GM vehicle in the late 90s with the stepper motor issues that caused your cluster to throw a rave when they went bad. They don't dissappear, but they certainly don't work properly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Analogue gauges still break. Even aircraft use digital displays these days, including on standby instruments. The issue is quality. If it's built like garbage, it's going to break more quickly and more frequently.

    Displays on connected cars are just more susceptible as companies can push broken OTA updates that should never have passed QA, if QA even exists, but again that's a quality issue.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That world-famous American build quality.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Jeep? They don't exist anymore. Its Fiat now.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Jeep is one of many brands under Stellantis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Fiat bought Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler. That company merged with Peugot and that new merged company changed its name to Stellantis. Jeep is still owned by Fiat, just with a different name.

    Multiple models of Jeep have Fiat Multi-Air equipped engines in them. I know this because I worked at a Dodge Jeep Chrysler dealer when the buyout happened, and after they renamed to Stellantis.

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