953 nut 56,369 #1 Posted January 11 We are considering buying a 2018 Grand Cherokee from my brother-in-law's estate. It has 27K on it and has been well maintained so being ten years newer and having 120K less miles than my wife's SUV it seems like a winner. I'd appreciate any owner input on this model, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,217 #2 Posted January 11 We have a 2019 Cherokee that we bought used with around 37,000 miles on it. Was a rental car. All in all, we are happy with it. It just turned up 88,000 miles. It is a 4 cylinder Active Air engine with an 8 speed automatic. Yes, it is shy on horsepower. You need to anticipate and keep the revs up when you need more power. It gets around 20mpg around town and about 30mpg on the highway. I've had to replace the battery and there was a low speed noise/vibration that was solved by replacing one of the drive shafts. The drive shaft was covered mostly covered by warranty - my part of the bill was $200. It is not for hard core off roading. With the Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice tires I got for winter use, it has been the best winter vehicle we've owned. Yes, the CJ's we've owned were more capable off road and in the snow, the Cherokee is a much more comfortable vehicle. 99% of the time, it is driven on road. It will occasionally see a short distance of a fire road or out in a field. There is a computer between you and the vehicle, so you have to get used to the resulting electronic quirks. Ours is the Latitude trim level. Nicely optioned and appointed - I wish that it had a hard point front and back to attach a tow strap, though. We traded in a Caravan on the Jeep. Noticed the much smaller cargo volume right away. One other bit of trivia - I was the tooling enginger on the dies for the base steel wheel. The company I worked for was acquired by a Brazilian company at ste same time I was working on those dies. The new company had a more centralized tool engineering than the previous company. We ran into an issue where the metal was thinning in a small area, creating a visual defect. I told my boss how I wanted to fix it, but the corporate tooling group (in Brazil) did not think what I wanted to do would fix the issue. Quite a lengthy discussion in a conference call. My boss settled the matter saying that since I was on site, we would try my fix first. If it worked, the corporate engineers would bring beer from Brazil next time they visited. If my fix didn't work, I would take beer to Brazil on my next trip. That beer from Brazil was pretty tasty. 1 1 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ri702bill 8,614 #3 Posted January 11 Stellantis acquired Jeep about the model year and proceeded to switch the Engine Management electronics to their Fiat based platfowm. NOT a quality product - puts you on a first name basis with your Mechanic..... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8ntruck 7,217 #4 Posted January 12 The engine/engine controls in our Cherokee were developed by Fiat. Maybe we are lucky - just normal maintenance on the engine. Most common item being oil changes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
6wheeler 653 #5 Posted January 12 That model year has several recalls. A friend of mine had an 2018. Seems like he was always taking it in for recalls. Not sure what for. I know he was always having electrical glitches. But, I had 2 caravans with electrical glitches too. I just thought it was a Chrysler blanket issue. One of several reasons I won't own another Chrysler product. Up here in Mn. they seem to rust out quickly. Probably, because we use more salt than a potato chip factory. Get the recalls checked out. And, with good maintenance it may serve you well. Also, keeping it in the family is nice too 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
