[AlbertaCherokee]

Would like some Feedback on your experience driving the Coquihalla hiway in BC to the Summit with your Cherokee 3.2 L engine.
I figure that should be about the Best test for highway driving in the province. Feedback on the rpm on the hills if it handled it with ease without working hard.
I've driven it a number of times with other vehicles some with 4 cylinder and was hard to maintain the new speed limit of 120kph. But think the 6 cylinder should do a good job.
We all know that highways has the steepest longest grades combined.
Hope to do that run in March!


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[cherokee_whisperer]

I have a 2016 i4 cherokee sport 4x4 and it runs the coquihalla fine. The 9speed transmission really helps the smaller engine. There will be certainly no issues with the v6.

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[AlbertaCherokee]

Good to here the 2.4 is doing good on those grades. I had the 2.4 with 6 speed in a compass and it struggled a bit jumping down in gears and pretty high rpms. Anyways hard to beat BC for sight seeing!!!


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[cherokee_whisperer]

Good to here the 2.4 is doing good on those grades. I had the 2.4 with 6 speed in a compass and it struggled a bit jumping down in gears and pretty high rpms. Anyways hard to beat BC for sight seeing!!!


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Right... jeep's are heavy!! But the 9speed makes a huge difference for the little engine. I can't imagine a 6speed in a 4500lb jeep hooked up to an i4.

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Driven it lots of times , you'll see ninth dropping into Merritt and Hope down the smasher , also towed the boat #3500 lbs , handled it fine , although coming back up the smasher I was in 3rd gear , just about the only place I felt the 3.2 working hard . Think I did the trip with the boat 6 times last year , Kamloops-Fraser Valley . Lots more solo and in the depths of winter . Probably the best car out there for this road !

 

[jamie1]

Done the Coq a few times. The 3.2L handles it with ease. No problem doing 130km/h. Does suck the fuel though. lol Last summer I used 1/2 a tank to go from Hope to Kamloops.:surprise: Yes I was flyin'0

 

[16jeepltd]

Would like some Feedback on your experience driving the Coquihalla hiway in BC to the Summit with your Cherokee 3.2 L engine.
I figure that should be about the Best test for highway driving in the province. Feedback on the rpm on the hills if it handled it with ease without working hard.
I've driven it a number of times with other vehicles some with 4 cylinder and was hard to maintain the new speed limit of 120kph. But think the 6 cylinder should do a good job.
We all know that highways has the steepest longest grades combined.
Hope to do that run in March!


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When I got my LTD last May and went to Edmonton in June, I set cruise on the Coq at 125 and it did not falter one bit, I averaged 7 litres per 100. Mine has the 3.2 with the tow package. Plenty of get up and go to pass. I have a hemi Ram and this Jeep impressed me.

 

[4 Snow]

No problems but roaring up the great bear snow shed Hill to coq summit will really suck back the fuel and is generally unwise, since I usually pop out of the snow shed to find at least one transport trying to pass another and the left lane unplowed......
Driving the Coq at 120 takes about half a tank hope to Kamloops and slacking off to 110 or even 100 on the steepest grades gets you there on a 1/4 tank.
Ripping up the hill on a hot summer day would certainly be an invitation to overheat
Missed getting caught in the two twelve hour closures last week.

 

[4 Snow]

When my colleague designed that highway it was to be safe at 120 kmph and posted at 110 and while my lead foot kind of takes me over that (well over...)occasionally, I kind of know that there are some rather life altering consequences to pushing past Greg S's ? Design speed for the road.

Occasionally road maintenance messes up and you could park at the top of Great bear give the bumper a solid kick and skate the 3 km 9% grade down to see where your cherokee landed. I still keep in mind the sanding crew following me that didn't make it down the Inks lake Hill into Kamloops.
Drive with care.

 

[JKL]

Don't know about the Coq, but I take a 1300 lb camping trailer + kids, canoe and gear, over the Malahat every time we head out camping. The i4 Sport handles that pretty easily. 28% grade if I recall correctly, though not as long as the Coquihalla. Usually end up passing someone on the first two lane stretch out of Goldstream. Revs between 3500 and 4000 on the uphill, but coasts down the other side in 9th sipping 3 litres per hundred.

I think your six will be fine.

 

[4 Snow]

Sorry the Hat is only about 6% and quite short about 1/3 of great bear hill on the Coq.
The big killer roads in the province are the Duffy at 13 on either end and the Bella Coola HILL.
The Coq can noticeably raise coolant temperature though.

 

[JKL]

Sorry the Hat is only about 6% and quite short about 1/3 of great bear hill on the Coq.
The big killer roads in the province are the Duffy at 13 on either end and the Bella Coola HILL.
The Coq can noticeably raise coolant temperature though.

Whatever

My point was, 2.4 litre i4 4 x 4, handles the hat with a camping trailer at 90kph, with no strain ... I think 6 cylinder 3.2litre will handle the Coquihalla with no problems. It's not that awful. I did it several times in a v6 chevy S10 blazer with no problems whatsoever, oh! and a Subaru GL 1800 wagon (1.8l flat four) but if the thought of over heating your modern Jeep 3.2 litre frightens, you could maybe stick to the lowlands. Perhaps move to Southern Ontario. Leave the mountains to the big folk. :smile:

 

[4 Snow]

No question any cherokee can make it up -- even 90 year old grandmother can do it in her S10 weaving around and past the prairie chickens that forgot to shift down for the hill and boiled over, or the Porche turbos that still blow up below the snow shed because of poor driver engine management. Count the scorch marks on the asphalt leading up to great bear each one marks the end of someone's fancy turbo )

On a serious note the *?* ! Road is closed for the night and avy control again tonight

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It will save you a night stuck out on the coq.
It is closed often enough on my monthly run into kamloops

 

[4 Snow]

Cruised the Coq again today. March madness has definitely set in. 2 busses and several semis crashed last week in one pile up with 29 people injured. This Tuesday there were close to 30 chained up semis trying with mixed success to get up the hill. And one only heavy wrecker doing extraction and towing.

Today, Friday going down the snow shed hill the trucks were not making it up the hill and Highways and Transportation closed it uphill at 4:10 pm. It was looking congested at 3 when I went down it. But the loonies were already out with pickups and cars passing a pair of tri drive snow and sand trucks that were plowing down hill in formation. Among them wait for it .....an all wheel drive car pulling a tandem axle Uhaul box trailer with a front passenger side wheel shredded off the saggy looking tandem trailer. Amazing but he made it down the hill and around the curves without losing it all.

So of course the Cherokee made it down tucked in behind the first semi after the plows and
I watched the show. First gear actually holds at 9% if you give it some throttle.

Of course with so many loonies on the road it was inevitable that they would all crash together with another two or three semis, the freeway closed again downhill south bound at 4:30 pm with an estimated time of reopening sometime after midnight. .

There is nothing on the hill with or without snowplows that a Cherokee with proper winter tires can't handle, but give the crazies lots of room, take a lunch and a winter sleeping bag. It would be an easy drive without the side show.