Just a friendly word of advice for my Petawawa Ont...

Just a friendly word of advice for my Petawawa Ontario, Canada friends. Be extremely cautious and know your warranty before taking your vehicle to Lapointe Chrysler in Petawawa Ontario, Canada FOR SERVICE. I changed the gear oil on my diffs as my kids and I were about to head out on our annual summer camping trip and noticed large chunks of metal in the fluid.

After a week of the dealership giving me the runaround they finally said that my broken spider gears are not covered under warranty. That these things just don t break. Even though I m only at 54,000 km of a 100,000 km powertrain warranty. I had to pay $300.00 just to get it out of the shop, they quoted me at $3200 to fix it parts $1100 and labour $1848.

Please note if anything I bought this vehicle from them used at 12,000km at the time they had 35 tires on it on a 7 rim. Not the 8.5(minimum) which it should have been. I downgraded the tire to a 33 as the ones on it were some knock off brand from China and wore out after 30,000km.
I ve taken that thing off road twice and just down a beginner trail. IT IS A JEEP. Other than that the kids and I use the Jeep for camping.

Further according to Lapointe Chrysler it is ok for a vehicle to sit outside with the diff plate off apparently the huge storms we had here this past week wouldn t affect it. According to their service manager rain only falls straight down, humidity and moisture won t hurt the diff. Well There was water in my diffs, bearing and joints. Just paid 300 for literally nothing.

If you look at the photos you will see the first two the day i changed the gear fluid and noticed metal chunks. So i inspected.
Then you will see a photo of the rear of the jeep with no diff cover on 7 days later and a puddle under it, from a severe storm earlier in the week. Then you can see condensation on the diff. There was water inside the case.