Hi Guys,
I stumbled upon a youtube video that someone have driven through a 4-5 inches puddle and killed the car. His description as follow:
"I thought that when I purchased a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT AT $93K that I would at least be able to drive through 4 to 5 inches of water, WRONG !!! MY JEEP sucked water into the engine (6.4 Litre V8) destroying it, now after seeing all the Jeep ads you would expect your jeep to be able to traverse a bit of water, after all the ads show the Jeeps barreling through creeks and rivers deeper than what I went through, covered by warranty you say? not a chance, the people that I contacted were rude and arrogant and would not even entertain the idea that it was warranty, as far as they were concerned it was end of story, one of them even inferred that I had driven through much deeper water, I had a look at the air intake and found that unlike other models that had a tube from the air box to the front of the car just under the bonnet/hood to take in air, my air box opened straight down to between the chassis and the wheel arch so that any water splashed up from the front wheel went straight into the air intake, very bad design flaw and Jeep do not want to address it, shame on Jeep Australia, anyone that owns an SRT should lift the top off their air box and remove the air filter and you can see straight down to the chassis, and above all do not take your SRT through water"
What do you think? I believed this is the 2nd one I have heard it happened.
I stumbled upon a youtube video that someone have driven through a 4-5 inches puddle and killed the car. His description as follow:
"I thought that when I purchased a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT AT $93K that I would at least be able to drive through 4 to 5 inches of water, WRONG !!! MY JEEP sucked water into the engine (6.4 Litre V8) destroying it, now after seeing all the Jeep ads you would expect your jeep to be able to traverse a bit of water, after all the ads show the Jeeps barreling through creeks and rivers deeper than what I went through, covered by warranty you say? not a chance, the people that I contacted were rude and arrogant and would not even entertain the idea that it was warranty, as far as they were concerned it was end of story, one of them even inferred that I had driven through much deeper water, I had a look at the air intake and found that unlike other models that had a tube from the air box to the front of the car just under the bonnet/hood to take in air, my air box opened straight down to between the chassis and the wheel arch so that any water splashed up from the front wheel went straight into the air intake, very bad design flaw and Jeep do not want to address it, shame on Jeep Australia, anyone that owns an SRT should lift the top off their air box and remove the air filter and you can see straight down to the chassis, and above all do not take your SRT through water"
What do you think? I believed this is the 2nd one I have heard it happened.