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2008 Jeep Patriot Questions & Answers
TCM location in jeep patriot
The Transmission Control Module AKA TCM is combined with the PCM on your Jeep. You will find the PCM inside of the right-side fender, which is located within the engine.
5/18/2020 8:58:57 AM •
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on May 18, 2020
Where is the safety switch in my 2008 Jeep patriot
Assuming you mean neutral safety switch, it's at base of clutch pedal in stick shift vehicles and can be a base of floor mount automatic shifter or on tranny itself. Chilton/Haynes repair manual for you vehicle where tell you where it's at and how to replace it. Given the redundant safety systems in newer vehicles I would definitely get a repair manual and go from there. Trouble shooting section is an excellent place to start.
9/16/2019 3:54:08 AM •
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on Sep 16, 2019
Jeep patriot won't crank
I had this exact same issue w/ my 08 Patriot. Had it towed the first time and mechanic changed the starter. Worked for about a week, then same issue. Found that moving the vehicle, even just a couple of inches, or putting in neutral helped start it. Issue stopped once weather warmed up. This all occurred last March (2014).
Until two weeks ago that is. Horn stopped working so I started looking for any corroded connections. I came across some relays under the left headlight. When I pulled them out, I found two had corroded pins. One was so bad that there was no pin left. It had barely been making a connection before I pulled it and now it wasn't going to at all. The wires to that pin were completely shot too. And guess what, car wouldn't start! Same symptoms as in March.
I ended up going to my parts recycling place and piucked up the whole relay enclosure w/ 4 relays and about a foot of the wiring. I used my smallest watch screw driver to carefully remove the spade connector from the recycled relay enclosure. The corroded connector in my Jeep completely destroyed its slot. I ended up having to gently remove the other spade connectors for the relay and relocated the surviving spade connectors to an open/unused location (luckily there were 2 open spots) and splicing in the salvaged connector. I used some dielectric grease on all of the relay slots, before putting everything back together, and was able to relocate the entire enclosure up next to the fuse enclosure (as recommended by by someone in anothe post. I apologize for not being able to find the link to it at the moment).
It's been working well for just over two weeks now. I hope this helps someone else.
BTW - horn turned out to be dead and I just ended up replacing it. Not related to the relays at all.
9/8/2017 2:00:20 AM •
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on Sep 08, 2017
Beaming Headlights
if you are looking down at the headlights from above there is a whiteish nylon screw that you can use either an allen wrench or a phillips screwdriver. Clockwise lowers, Counter clock raises.
9/7/2017 1:46:53 PM •
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on Sep 07, 2017
My dashboard and gauges keep flickering on and off
sound like you have a lose connection it could be the cables on to the dash or the socket it fits to. you would need to remove the dash and clean the connection and re fit it. if you push on the dash does it stop. ? just check this first as some times its just a tiny amount of play in the connections that's the problem .
7/3/2017 4:42:52 AM •
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on Jul 03, 2017
Quand changer timing belt sur jeep patriot 2008?
OMG , my translator says this is Frechlish,frenchQuand changer = "when to chaNGE' okthat was fun to decode.are you in France?We here in usa have like 3 enginesand there, 5 and diesels, one can say EU isdiesel city,no?all our jeeps usa (but 2.4L)are chains or gears.all of our belts are 60km miles or 100kmetes.if we use GATEs belts or real JEEPfleabay belts, china junk? "funny names" way less.so take the tests:1; where are you, country not IP address2: gas or diesel3; size engine, in liters,or use real name for engine, jeep'my guess, NO BELT ON THE CAMSthere in Europe, gas (petrol engine)if diesel, nows that time to say.
2/25/2017 1:13:11 PM •
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on Feb 25, 2017
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