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On my way into work this morning my 2011 Journey had the check engine light come on. We pulled off the highway, stopped for 10mins and started it back up again, light is still on. Going into my dealership tonight to have it looked at. I was just there on the weekend for an Oil change..

A few more weeks and I will have had my 2011 Journey for one year, thought I'd write a little post to say how things have been so far! In one year, my wife and I have put 33,000km on our Journey (glad we took the extended warranty up to 100,000km lol). This includes 1 round trip from Toronto to Boston, and one round trip from Toronto to Myrtle Beach, other than that, it’s our daily drive to work. I've had the tires rotated 4 times in the year (4th time will happen this weekend on my next oil change). I've also found that the tires that came with our Journey (the 19' ones) suck in the snow, and next winter I will be looking for winter tires and rims for sure! I've had to top up the Nitrogen in the tires once when all 4 wheel sensors came on at the same time. Gas mileage is pretty good, normally showing around 11.5/100 though the amount of stop and go traffic really kills it (we have the crew with the V6). Shortly after we got our Journey last year, we had major problems with the ABS system. It turned out the control unit had shorted out due to no seals around the module, but this took 3 trips into the dealer before they finally found the problem, since then, no issues with ABS. We had problems with our brakes from the day we bought it, all the way into the fall last year, with the brakes making a really loud noise when stopping, and tons of brake dust on the rims. The dealer finally replaced the brake pads under warranty which fixed the issue, but that took 5 different trips to the dealer to get that fixed up. All in all, I can say we both really love our Journey; there are still a few issues that still bug me to this day. The first is the Speedo defaulting to MPH even though they have flashed the unit 3 times now to fix it. Also the voice controls with Uconnect for audio playback still doesn't work (like play artist). My IPOD still has issues when plugged in, taking up to 20mins before the shuffle options are useable, and CD art is hit and miss. Another ongoing issue which I am going to have looked at is that we can't fill up the Journey to full at all, most of the time it cuts off at the 3/4 mark thinking its full, but I can put another 15L of gas in most times.

MMm good to konw thanks for the info On my next oil change i am going to complain about the issue, see what they say/do about it. I'll post back anything that happens.

My 2011 Crew has almost the same issues. We had a really cold day the other morning, showed -25 outside then the next morning -22, first time I didnt' wait long enough, had almost the same problem as you, the 2nd day, I used the remote stater and let it warm up 5-10mins or so, when I drove away, no problems at all.

Same as you 100%. My normal gas station is an Ultramar (cause its like 5 cents cheaper lol) it always kicks off before the F line and when i normally slow fill it, i too can add in about another 10L in as well. The only station that seems to actually fill it up is my local Shell which is the most expensive in my area. If i take my 04 honda to the same Ultramar, it fills up right to F then turns off like it should.

Here's an odd issue. I have a 2011 DJ Crew, and every single time i go to fill up, i can never get the tank filled up fully. It always cuts off when it thinks its full, but when i start up the journey, its never on the full line. I've found that when it stops filling, if i pull the nozzle out a little and continue to fill up slowly, it actually takes a lot mroe gas into the tank. Anyone else have this issue? And to make it even funnier, this morning I filled up and the pump didn't shut off at all, i think a few $$$ worth of gas ended up on the ground lol.

I was past 8000km and mine never went off, I went in anyways, no way I'd wait 13k to do one. Just hit 27k going in for I think my 3rd oil change since I got my DJ back in March.

Started up the Journey this morning to leave for work, and the EVIC system lite up like a christmas tree warning for low KPA, the two left side tires were at 209, the two right side tires were at 199 and were yellow with the warning. After driving for a bit, 3 of the 4 tires were up to 227 but the back right was at 220 and the two right sides were still both yellow. Could this be a sensor problem or acutally low pressure?

Not sure, i have a few NHL teams selected but I've never seen a pop up come up for them to date.

The feature does work on my 2011 Crew. We got ours in march of this year while it was still cold out in the mornings. When i use the remote start and it was cold out, the heated seats came on.

Well i didn't say they were cheap but at least they are 19's lol

Was looking around the other day in the on going quest for snow tires, and I looked up a tire shop i passed, Kaltire. Went to there website and wouldn't you know, they have a tire that is the correct 19' tire size for the Journey! https://shop.kaltire.com/tiresdetails1/tireid/4138/

There was another topic going about this very same proublem. I have a 2011 Crew and had the issue with my breaks as well. i had it in 3 times and the dealer kept saying nothing was wrong, but the noise would keep getting louder. Finally took it in a 4th time, this time the dealer replaced all the break pads under warranty saying that the pads were too hard??? No clue about that as I am not much of a car guy. Anyways, all was good for a few months but now the noise is coming back yet again. We have 17k on the Journey already. I cleaned my rims a few months back to make them shine like new. 3 of the rims are still pretty clean, the 4th one is very black, so I am guessing that something is wrong yet again with the breaking system.

It also adds a fair bit to the cost of your new tires/rims, i think its like $130ish dollers per tire extra to have senors put onto them...

We took the extended warranty on our Crew as well. In the long run, the extra $$$ will be well worth it seeing as how many issue's i had with the breaks already lol. I didn't get any sweet deal that includes the oil change and tire work though, i wish they had offered me that lol.

So any of these will work? Journey (2008+) 16” Options: Option 1 - $700.00 4 x 225-70-16 Hercules Avalanche Extreme 4 x 16x6.5 Steel Wheels 4 x Plastic Tire Bags 4 x Mount, Balance and Install Option 2 package with Hankook RW07 iPike - $760.00 Option 3 package with Bridgestone Winterforce - $810.00 Option 4 package with Gislaved Nordfrost 5 - $890.00 Option 5 package with Yokohama Geolander I/T G072 - $890.00 Option 6 package with Pirelli Scorpion Ice & Snow - $910.00 Option 7 package with Toyo Observe G02 - $970.00 Option 8 package with Michelin X-Ice Latitude - $1,020.00

Tirerack.com says a set of 16" (16X6.5) would fit, that sound about right? $57 each on their site but if i can find them local even better.

I have 2011 Crew with 19' wheels right now, would i be able to drop down to 16's for winter tires with new rims or is that going to small?

checked on my 2011 Crew and sure enough, yup, very same problem on my Journey as well.

That's odd, i was at like 9600km and never got a notice but i still when in just after that. Now almost near 16k no notice still yet.

My 2011 does the same thing.

Ya I've noticed that my rims are much cleaner now too.

Just a follow up to this. Since they put new break pads on, not a noise at all! I got the paper work from the dealer via mail as they didn't have it at the time i went to pickup the journey. They wrote in as normal, couldn't recreate the problem, but they guess that the old break pads were to hard which was causing the problem???? Does that even make sense?

Mmm no issues with mine, used it this morning that way, told it to go to boneyard and it did correctly. I do have the new updated for the uconect installed, but even before i am pretty sure it was working correctly. i remember the day they changed the chanel numbers when i turned on the journey it took some time to do an update for the sat radio and then everything started to work.

2 days now of driving into work, no noise at all now since the new pads were put on.... Could it finally be fixed......