2008 Jeep Liberty: battery drain or dead battery

6 of the 541 complaints about the 2008 Jeep Liberty describe battery drain or dead battery.

owner complaints: 6
of this car's complaints: 1%
typical mileage: 99,000
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 5 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Battery drain or dead battery by model year

2012
2
2011
1
2010
1
2008
6
2007
1
2006
1
2003
1
2002
4

What owners say

Filed Jul 24, 2018 · Electrical, Lights · 140,000 miles · AR

The problems started with the new battery going dead for no reason until I installed security cameras on our house and saw the head lights would randomly turn on and off running the battery dead when the car was parked in the driveway. Then the windshield wipers would come on and not turn off and sometimes the car wouldn't start and when it did on these events it would shake acting like it was running out of gas

Filed Dec 28, 2015 · Electrical · 83,000 miles · NJ

I am the original owner of my 08 liberty. I have been using the dealership for all maintenance. I've had issues with my skyslider roof in the past which, after 5 years of haggling, has been fixed. The problem I am haveing now is with a dying battery. Replaced the battery only to find out that the battery was still good. New battery doesn't last overnight. Found that there could be 3 issues causing it. Radio, fuel pump or tipm. Cd player began to constantly eject a cd when no cd was present, so I pulled the radio fuse to stop the drain on the battery. No good! Next day, dead battery. Listened to any sound that the fuel pump was running while engine was off. Did not appear to be running. Checked with the jeep forum, wow was I shocked! Libertys have nothing but electrical problems with the tipm. Chrysler/jeep/fiat have been aware of the issue but have not done a recall, causing all it's customers hundreds of dollars t repair a known issue. Class action suit only pushed them to repair tipm's from 2010 and up vehicles leaving everyone else high and dry. I now need to disconnect the battery cable every night so the care starts in the morning. Dealer will diagnose the problem, at cost and then fix the problem, at cost, plus labor. All on a vehicle with 83,000 miles. In the last year, I have replaced the PCM, ECM, 4 o2 sensors and catalytic converters. Thanks to the governments emission control warranty of 8/80,000, they were covered. The tipm is not! When issue is confirmed by the dealer, I'll be calling detriot!!!!!!!!

Filed Oct 22, 2015 · Electrical · 91,141 miles · AZ

Jeep stationary in driveway overnite started burning all wiring harneses until battery died, interior saturated with burned wire smell, electronic dashboard said no-bus, towed it to jeep-chrysler dealership had to replace all harnesses, fuse relays, modules, harness grounded out to metal bad factory installation, cost 4,400!

Filed Mar 11, 2015 · Electrical · 66,606 miles · TX

1 year old battery died, bought a new one everything worked fine for a month, then my evap system malfunctioned, bought new one had system pressurized. Ok everything is fine for about two months, lights flicker a little here and there, car doesn't turn over immediately, cd player shuts down on it's own, lost positrac in the rear, heater not warm unless over 2000 RPM, car still runs though. So battery dies just under 3 yeras later (still under warranty) odd.replaced free yay, only free thing in this whole endeavor. After replacing battery clockspring goes out, dammitt!!! Replaced, not a week later lock fuses keep blowing. Found out alternator has a built in relay that if it goes wreaks absolute horror on computor, and entire elec. System, it even controls the light on your dashboard indicating that it has gone out,brilliant. Had I known this it could've saved many hours and close to $1,500. This should be fixed.

Filed Jul 31, 2014 · Electrical · 99,000 miles · NJ

Recently the battery died in my 2008 jeep liberty. I changed the battery and when I started up my vehicle and error message was displayed in the odometer window. I searched the internet and found that this is a common problem with this model vehicle.

Filed Jul 8, 2014 · Electrical · 100,000 miles · NJ

My car battery died. After replacing battery I have an error message displayed across the odometer. I have tried resetting the panel. Had it scanned and found nothing..disconnected the battery cable for over an hour, did not reset the message. Was told the pcn needed to be flashed. Cost $200 dollars. I have seen numerous complaints for the same thing and wondering why there isn't a recall of what ever is going on. All of the stories are the same. Loss of battery power when they turn car on after reconnecting battery. The error message occurs and does not go away. This should really be a recall it is effecting a lot of jeep liberties.