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justrok

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So when I upgraded to the 3.5" standard Rubicon Express kit and 37" MTR's I also added the Superchips Flashpaq. I originally installed the 87 Octane Tune since I had a full tank of 87 gas. The power was great and everything worked fine. I still had stock gearing, and I felt that the programmer ALMOST made up for the tire size increase.
With the more is better attitude, I figured that I would step up to the 91 tune. I installed the program (but did not drive), and when I went to take the Jeep the next day, a lot of the electrical functions were not working. Headlights, turn signals, and windshield wipers will not work. At night, the headlights are on, but the light switch will not work.

So I went back to stock programming, back to 89, back to stock and finally back to 89 before I gave up. Each time, none of the items would work. I also tried to update the programmer but nothing was available.

I have called Superchips and they have not heard of this problem, so I am wondering what to do next? Could it be a fuse? Am I going to have to take it back to the dealer to have it reprogrammed. It is out of warranty so I don't have to worry about voiding anything, but I would like to rule out other options first. Please help me!!!!:bawling:
 
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just a thought here.

When I did the Procomp programmer on my wife's JK to change tire size. After programming the speedometer did not work at all. Returned to stock, and still did not work. I searched online and found others who had had that same problem. The answer was to return to stock, then disconnect the battery for 10 minutes. Reconnect the battery, and then do the new programming. Worked perfectly.
 
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justrok said:
So when I upgraded to the 3.5" standard Rubicon Express kit and 37" MTR's I also added the Superchips Flashpaq. I originally installed the 87 Octane Tune since I had a full tank of 87 gas. The power was great and everything worked fine. I still had stock gearing, and I felt that the programmer ALMOST made up for the tire size increase.
With the more is better attitude, I figured that I would step up to the 91 tune. I installed the program (but did not drive), and when I went to take the Jeep the next day, a lot of the electrical functions were not working. Headlights, turn signals, and windshield wipers will not work. At night, the headlights are on, but the light switch will not work.

So I went back to stock programming, back to 89, back to stock and finally back to 89 before I gave up. Each time, none of the items would work. I also tried to update the programmer but nothing was available.

I have called Superchips and they have not heard of this problem, so I am wondering what to do next? Could it be a fuse? Am I going to have to take it back to the dealer to have it reprogrammed. It is out of warranty so I don't have to worry about voiding anything, but I would like to rule out other options first. Please help me!!!!:bawling:
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Did you get it from Jeff Love?
 
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justrok said:
a lot of the electrical functions were not working. Headlights, turn signals, and windshield wipers will not work. At night, the headlights are on, but the light switch will not work.
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sounds like problem with your clock spring or steering control module, I had same thing nothing to do with the superchips.

Disconnect your battery overnight it fixed mine and I know another guy had same trouble fixed his. It happened to mine about 3-4months ago and his 8months before that. If the battery doesnt fix it you'll probably need to replace the clock spring in the steering wheel.
 
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this is interesting. I also have the flashpaq and have some gremlins. I also have the aeroforce interceptor gauge. Maybe one of these is causing my gremlins. The first issue is the dang MIL light. it comes on at highway speeds at all different tranny temps, could be anywhere from 135 to 200 and its very random. When I check the DTC's, nothing comes up except a TCC out of range (i'm missing a TPMS stem). So I reset the DTC's, the light goes out and I'm good for another run until I hit the highway. Very random and I'm convinced my tranny is not overheating. My other gremlin is with the factory remote starter. This is odd, now that its getting colder out we have tried the remote starter a few times. It works fine starting the jeep, but after about 30 seconds, the jeep just shuts off and will not re-start via the remote. here's where this gets weird, I had the oil changed today (go ahead blast away for paying someone else to deal with it). I explained what the remote starter was doing to my friend behind the counter. When the tech brought my Jeep around front I hit the remote starter to show them the problem, guess what? yep it didn't shut off.. go figure how an oil change can fix that?:confused: maybe it was the tire rotation... I dunno, it just did it when I started it to go get the dang oil change.
Sorry to hijack, just figured I would merge our issues and see if anyone else has similar..
I might try the disconnect the battery idea.
 
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Hoopa there are many many more people having electrical gremlins with the JK that dont have the superchips, I really dont think it has anything to do with it. Return yours to stock to see if any of them happen without the superchips programming, I bet they do.
 
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Hoopa70 said:
roger that, whats the recourse? should i have it re-flashed at the dealership or?
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have what reflashed? if you mean to put the jeep back to stock, no you hook the superchips back up to the jeep then instead of installing 87 or 91 tune you will see "stock" in the list, that returns jeep to stock, completely removes the superchips programming. You are supposed to do that when you goto the dealer for any work where they may need to hook up their scanner to the jeep as their scanner wont read the superchips program correctly.
 
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tkob1060 said:
have what reflashed? if you mean to put the jeep back to stock, no you hook the superchips back up to the jeep then instead of installing 87 or 91 tune you will see "stock" in the list, that returns jeep to stock, completely removes the superchips programming. You are supposed to do that when you goto the dealer for any work where they may need to hook up their scanner to the jeep as their scanner wont read the superchips program correctly.
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Sorry, I left out the fact that I actually did return it to stock for a few days with the same results. That's why I asked about trying the dealership for a re-flash. I will try the free version and disconnect the battery overnight first before dragging it to the dealership.
On a side note, the whole transmission temp thing is really pissing me off. The temperatures are always so random on the highway. One day It might hit 200 and stay there for a half an hour, then cool down slowly to 190. the next day it may never get over 150. the next day it might be 165-170.
I'm talking about the same stretch of road at the same speed with the outside temp being reasonably close within 5-10 degrees.
One thing for sure, once the temps get up around 180, it just climbs on up to 200 quick and does not cool down even with the B&M cooler that everyone raves about. If its under 180, it will cool down pretty quickly. The great thing is the friggin light comes on at all different temps, but ONLY at highway speed. Rant over:pissed:
 
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tkob1060 said:
sounds like problem with your clock spring or steering control module, I had same thing nothing to do with the superchips.

Disconnect your battery overnight it fixed mine and I know another guy had same trouble fixed his. It happened to mine about 3-4months ago and his 8months before that. If the battery doesnt fix it you'll probably need to replace the clock spring in the steering wheel.
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It worked just before I switched out the program, so I doubt that it broke while sitting in my driveway. Remember it was installed and working correctly well after the install of the lift and alignment.

I will try the battery disconnect and see what happens........thanks for the tips!:beer:
 
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justrok said:
It worked just before I switched out the program, so I doubt that it broke while sitting in my driveway. Remember it was installed and working correctly well after the install of the lift and alignment.

I will try the battery disconnect and see what happens........thanks for the tips!:beer:
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ask Jeep School they are going thru clock springs every 10K

When I had the problem, it was fine when I shut it off earlier in the day, then came out and started it and everything was fvcked up, thats pretty much how any computer or mechanical thing breaks.

Also when I had the trouble it was before I got the superchips, I had the hypertech at the time and going back to stock changed nothing, the only thing that did was leaving battery disconnected overnight, I had tried leaving it disconnected for about 15min before that.
 
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Actually I had the same problem. What you have to do is:
1. If your already programmed, change what you want updated such as tire size etc.
2. RE-FLASH whatever grade of gas you want to use.
Changes to gearing or tire size doesn't change until you actually reflash the octane programming. I had the same prob, made the changes, told it I wanted to optimize for 87 octane reflashed again and bingo bango bongo works like a dream. Just changing the gearing doesn't update the computer until you actually reflash octane settings. I don't know why but it works. G'luck!
 
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Thanks for the help guys......the battery disconnect worked like a charm!
 
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