2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee Grease Points?

[murpht3]

Hi all,

For years I have been working on my old 1995 Grand Cherokee, which had several grease ports on its front end. I recently upgraded to the 2006 Grand Cherokee and went to look for the grease ports after changing my oil and I didn't see any. Am I missing the obvious? Where are the grease points?

Thanks!

[xj31]

There are no grease fittings

[msdz]

With grease fittings you can put new grease in and push out the old grease and DIRT. The deal is that most people don't think about greasing their fittings anymore. Either forget to do it, to lazy, don't want to pay someone to do it, or just stupid. So the longer it goes with out fresh grease more DIRT gets into the fitting the more problems occur. So a lot of manufactures are using parts that do not have grease fittings, in their eye it will mean the people that do not grease fittings will have less troubles, hopefully. I started noticing and wondeering about this when replacing the bearings in a riding mower on the cutting deck. The bearings use to come with fittings but when my dad had hit a rock I needed to replace the bearings, went to buy new ones and they said they no longer came with fittings. I asked why and that was the reason they gave me. So I say it goes with vehicles or anything that use to have grease fittings.

[murpht3]

This is the first of this new body style GC that I have worked on so I thought I was just missing them...oh well, one less thing you need to do now I guess! Although I do think I will have to buy a set of ramps. With the chassis so low to the ground as compared to the earlier models, it is a real pain to change the oil.

[dksob81]

MSDZ is right. I work in a express lube/repair shop/inspection station and we get alot of vehicle that do not have grease fittings the reason is because the car manufactures are seeing a decline in maintenance so they are trying to save themself some money in the warranty department by not putting greae fittings on ball joints, steering linkage etc. With fitting you have an attached boot to help hold the grease and when greasing it will push old grease and water and dirt out, but on new vehicle then do not have fitting and have sealed ball joints, tie rod ends, etc, so no dirt and water can get in.

We have also seen alot of people come in and want it greased and we can't do it and the last place they took it to stuck a needle in the boot and greased it which is never a good idea. We have not seen any improvement in longevuty of fittingless joints, parts that are greased regularly (every oil change) will last longer. Most of the time when you get a replacement part it will come with a fitting.