Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery - Storm Mountain DOA jeep

Wednesday the 17th Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery was dispatched to a call west of Loveland, Colorado on Storm Mountain's eastern side.

The day prior the owner was exploring the area and came upon a nice camp spot to sit and enjoy the view, after shutting the jeep off for a bit, the ignition was not responding to the key and was throwing a bunch of codes about low circuit voltage etc.

We suspect a wire shorted somewhere either in the engine bay or under the dash, and possible took out the computer. The battery was fully charged and there was power to the usual always on circuits in the fuse box, but we had found some blown fuses on accessories that were installed (by a previous owner) and think that it might have taken out the computer onboard when it shorted. The act of shutting the jeep off severed the connection to everything and then it was just dead.

we couldn't even get the dash cluster to respond!

we did try turning the key on in case it was actually working, and just the dash was dead. but manually jumping the starter relay proved to be ineffective. the starter was not engaging with the flywheel at all.

we jockeyed the jeep around and proceeded to FDT "flat dead tow" the vehicle out to the spot the tow truck would pick it up from.

All in all a pretty simple recovery, just a slow drive out as there are some rocky loose and steep spots along storm mountain on the way out.

Видео Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery - Storm Mountain DOA jeep канала Justin King