Funny (or stupid) New Owner Stuff

[danrhiggins]

Life is easier if you can laugh at yourself. So here are a couple of things I have done with the LR4 in the first 24 hours. (I'm sure there will be more.)

Keyless start. The button. (Now keep in mind this is my 3rd vehicle with this capability.) My wife and I get in the car for our first "drive". I push the button. Nothing. I push the button again. Nothing. I am immediately thinking that the LR electronics gremlins have already struck. Dang! So I shuffle the key around in my pocket. Relocate my phone in case it is interfering. Then I push the button again. Voila! It starts. 15 minutes later we are switching drivers and I'm back starting the car again. And then it hits me. When it wasn't starting it was because I was pressing the Audio Power on button.

Then this morning I pull out of the garage to drive up to the ridge to get pics for you all. As I start going I notice this red "I" light on. Obviously an indicator and obviously "red" is not good. But no door lights. Hmmm. Maybe its the tailgate. Opened and closed the tailgate. Its still on. Darn. Another electronic gremlin. Oh. Wait. I guess I'm supposed to raise the truck from Access Mode when I start driving.

And then there are the number of times I reached for the gear shift. And tried to press a non-existent parking brake. And...

The joy of change!

 

[Soda]

Same! I keep reaching for a non-existent gear shift!

 

[epiclr4]

Then this morning I pull out of the garage to drive up to the ridge to get pics for you all. As I start going I notice this red "I" light on. Obviously an indicator and obviously "red" is not good. But no door lights. Hmmm. Maybe its the tailgate. Opened and closed the tailgate. Its still on. Darn. Another electronic gremlin. Oh. Wait. I guess I'm supposed to raise the truck from Access Mode when I start driving.

The truck will lift itself from Access Mode once you start driving. Same thing if you are in lifted mode. Not sure what else your red I would have been from. I would think it was the tail gate but that should have flashed up in the center screen.

I will say my issues have been with a couple things:

1) There are so many sensors and warnings and cameras and everything that I feel as though there is too much going on when trying to backup now and I have become paranoid that sooner or later I will miss something......

2) Ties into #1 but ultimately after having my flat tire on the trail a couple months ago and trying to get the vehicle in a good position to change the tire the suspension button was pressed multiple times in different directions as we all tried to decide the best approach and by the time I got back in the vehicle the entire system had gone crazy with the flat tire as well so I didn't notice that I was in a lowered state. Well I then went to go over a stump and got caught on the cross member and panicked. Just to realize after I got back in the truck and tried to get myself off of it to scroll through the error messages and look down to see that the suspension was stuck in an in-between state......

 

[danrhiggins]

Ahh. Jimmy Fallon moments! (Assuming everyone saw the video where he got his LR4 stuck in the sand. If not, here's the link.)

 

[Surfrider77]

If you missed whatever error message came up (tailgate, etc) you can use the steering wheel button controlled menu to select "display warnings". It will tell you what is currently giving you the "!" indication.

@EpicLR4: regarding your stump on the cross-member, the LR4 is supposed to automatically raise itself if it detects it has bottomed out on something. Even if you are have full off-road height selected, it will raise further to get off the bottom. It will basically go into "extended mode" until you clear the obstacle. Yours sounds as if it auto extended while not in off-road height (completely normal). The indication would have been two different access heights flashing at once.

The feature is extremely handy and everyone should be familiar with it. It's a significant amount of lift available beyond off-road height!

Read this for more info:
http://www.offroving.com/SuperExtendedMode.pdf

 

[epiclr4]

@EpicLR4: regarding your stump on the cross-member, the LR4 is supposed to automatically raise itself if it detects it has bottomed out on something. Even if you are have full off-road height selected, it will raise further to get off the bottom. It will basically go into "extended mode" until you clear the obstacle. Yours sounds as if it auto extended while not in off-road height (completely normal). The indication would have been two different access heights flashing at once.

Well aware of the "extended mode". Used it once going over a snowbank when I first purchased the vehicle. Sadly, that didn't happen when I got caught on the stump and there was so many messages at the time from the sliced open tire with the TPMS and what not that I had just missed it while everything was scrolling through.

Life was so much easier in a Jeep.......

 

[danrhiggins]

Life was so much easier in a Jeep.......

Ha ha! Funny how all these things that are supposed to make our lives easier end up making them more complicated. 15 years ago I never worried about the battery on my cell phone or whether the route from the car's navigation system would work.