NHTSA Complaint #10579062 — 2002 JEEP LIBERTY

MY CAR EXPERIENCED A SPORADIC ROUGH IDLE OVER A 2 WEEK PERIOD. ONE DAY THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT WHEN ON AFTER STARTING THE CAR. AFTER READING THE CODES CYLINDER 2 WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE ISSUE. A SHOP REPLACED THE IGNITION COIL AND ALL SEEMED WELL. THE NEXT DAY AFTER DRIVING THE CAR ALL DAY WITH NO ISSUE, I RESTARTED THE JEEP AFTER A 10 MINUTE BREAK AND IT WOULD NOT START. WHEN IT FINALLY STARTED IT SOUNDED LIKE HALF THE CYLINDERS WERE NOT FIRING AND HAD A SLAPPING SOUND. TOWED IT TO DEALERSHIP AND WAS TOLD CYLINDER 2 HAD NO COMPRESSION AND IT NEEDED A NEW CYLINDER HEAD. BOTH SIDES WOULD COST $3,500. PARTS WERE ORDERED AND 10 DAYS LATER THEY CALLED ME AND SAID THERE WERE OTHER PROBLEMS AND THE CYLINDER HEAD WAS NOT THE ISSUE. PISTON SEEMED BENT AND IT NEEDED A LONG ENGINE BLOCK AND A WATER PUMP. THIS WOULD COST $7,000. NOT WORTH THE FIX. IT SEEMS CYLINDER 2 IS AN ISSUE IN MANY LIBERTY'S OF THIS YEAR. *TR