My dad has a 2008 Wrangler with a v6, automatic. The thing has no power, it sees a hill coming an starts slowing down 
. We tried to use it to pull a car out of the ditch and even in 4 low it wouldn’t pull it out. The odd thing is it wouldn’t spin the tires at all either (maybe traction control??). Once we tried going up a steep grass hill and it did the same thing, no spinning, just not enough power to go any further.. It gets 11.5-12.5 mpg. I plugged a code reader in even though it didn’t have any lights on and it showed the long term fuel trim was +17.2 on bank 1 and +13.3 on bank 2 at an idle. When you hold the gas at 2500 rpm both drop to +/- 1. The other thing is on my reader it shows bank 1/bank 2 sensor 2 short term trim at 99.2, it doesn’t move no matter what you do. I am not sure if this is a function of the reader and there is no sensor 2 fuel trim or not? I tried spraying brake clean while at an idle around the vacuum hoses to see if I could find a vacuum leak, but nothing changed the idle. I did change the plugs and air filter with no change... any thoughts on where I could go next? Trying to help my dad but I don’t know a lot about jeeps..
thanks for looks and any comments!!
Dennis
. We tried to use it to pull a car out of the ditch and even in 4 low it wouldn’t pull it out. The odd thing is it wouldn’t spin the tires at all either (maybe traction control??). Once we tried going up a steep grass hill and it did the same thing, no spinning, just not enough power to go any further.. It gets 11.5-12.5 mpg. I plugged a code reader in even though it didn’t have any lights on and it showed the long term fuel trim was +17.2 on bank 1 and +13.3 on bank 2 at an idle. When you hold the gas at 2500 rpm both drop to +/- 1. The other thing is on my reader it shows bank 1/bank 2 sensor 2 short term trim at 99.2, it doesn’t move no matter what you do. I am not sure if this is a function of the reader and there is no sensor 2 fuel trim or not? I tried spraying brake clean while at an idle around the vacuum hoses to see if I could find a vacuum leak, but nothing changed the idle. I did change the plugs and air filter with no change... any thoughts on where I could go next? Trying to help my dad but I don’t know a lot about jeeps.. thanks for looks and any comments!!
Dennis
