Hi all, I'm new to this group, and I have been reading. Wasn't sure what the protocol was as far as introducing myself. So I'll just do it how I think I should. My name is Mary and I have a 94, 4 cyclinder, automatic Jeep that I adore. It is black. I live in the mountains of WV (near Gore if anyone is familiar w/ the Jeep tracks there) and I count on my jeep during the rough weather months. Well, my computer took a crap on me recently and so I took it to the Jeep dealership and they want $550 to put a new one in. But they had to order it, so like an idiot, I brought my Jeep back home to the mountain and now it won't start at all. :( So a dealer told my husband (he works in the auto industry for Get Auto/Auto Trader) that he could pull the computer off himself, get the numbers off of it, and just buy one and put the new one on. So we took it off this past weekend, got the numbers and Mike went on a search for a new one. Well, the only one he was able to find was out of Texas, from some dude's personal vehicle and he wants $175 for it. There is no guarantee that it would work once we got it (why would you sell the computer off your personal vehicle?) so we have decided to keep looking. I would appreciate any and all advice any of you could give me on finding a computer for this. Or maybe good websites or what have you. I really need to get her running before another snow. My other car is a Crown Vic police car and she's a beast. I do have chains which allow me to get out if I have to, but there will be no playing on the mountain in the snow in that car. We ride 4 wheelers too, but there's just something about the Jeep, you know, HEAT, music, etc, not to mention she'll go anywhere the 4 wheeler will go, that makes it fun during a snow.
Thank You in advance, and I hope I'm not remiss in how I jumped into the fray. I just need to figure out how to fix her! Mary in Hampshire Co, WV