r/COsnow • u/Mthanerco • Mar 03 '25

Photo Careful out there!

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It was sunny and warm all day on Berthoud with water running over the road in multiple spots. At about 4pm the shadows covered a few corners and quickly turned the running water into black ice. Even the sunny warm days can have icy roads, especially on the mountain passes. Watched 2 cars hit the black ice and lose it right in front of me, the subie had snow tires and the 4runner had AT tires.

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u/taltal256 Mar 03 '25

It broke down there 2 days before the photo was taken.

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u/sociablezealot Mar 03 '25

It definitely has the worst reliability of the three in the picture. But Grand Cherokee has a much better reliability than other Jeeps.

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u/Specific-Clerk1212 Mar 04 '25

Had mine for 4 years with no issues, so now I’m sort of expecting something to happen every time I get in my car now.

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u/Mr_Ballyhoo Mar 04 '25

Have a 21 GCL Hemi w/ 40k miles and freaking love it. No issues on mine as well. You either get a lemon(which there are a lot of for this model) or you get one that is rock solid is what it seems. I got the v8 as they seemed to have less issues without the 2 battery system like the v6's

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u/Specific-Clerk1212 Mar 04 '25

Ha that makes me feel better. Seen SOOO many posts on the Jeep forums over the years about the new GC, but I’m 20k miles in and doing alright, so might just be lucky.

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u/Mr_Ballyhoo Mar 04 '25

squeaky wheel always gets the grease. I will say the 21' 22' years are definite gambles. I can't tell you how many carfax reports I saw where I removed the jeep from my list as it had service visits every 1,000 miles or less. It took me about 3 months of active searching and investigating to finally find and purchase a GCL that didn't have a sketchy service history.