Strange object in the Cherokee

[Jared5755]

A buddy of mine just bought a used Jeep Cherokee. I believe it is a 1990. On the inside, on the ceiling, there is a strange black plastic bubble. It almost looks like a surveillance camera housing. Does anyone know what this is?

I thought it may be some sort of temperature sensor or something, but I don't know and am very curious.

Thanks,
Jared

 

[TwistedCU]

It's Big Brother (AKA Mingez). He'll engage the automatic ignition kill if you do anything politically incorrect.

Ok seriously, Was the XJ a fleet vehicle? It may have been for a camera.

 

[Junkpile]

I had a buddy that had that in his 94. We tried to figure it out for about a week, he HAD to know, so he went back to the dealer and asked. They told him it was for the keyless entry.

 

[randomjeeper]

i have a little black dome looking thing on my ceiling and it is for the keyless entry, so that would be my guess.

 

[Jared5755]

I didn't think he had a keyless entry, but they probably just didn't give him the remote when he bought it. Thats probably what it is.

Thanks, that was bugging us a lot...haha

Jared

 

[90Xjay]

My 90 XJ had one too. I think they built it into every Laredo model regardless and if keyless was ordered, waa laa.

I decided to take mine down and enhance it with a nice peice of diamond plating. It would be fun to wire in a flashing light to turn on whenever and tell your kids it is a built in self destruct indicator and if they keep messing with the radio settings........boooom!!

 

[graewulf]

yup.. keyless entry. No loss.. those infrared ones are useless.. they work for about 5 feet when they actually work, and are line of sight only. And forget it if you have tinted windows....

 

[siminsez01]

oh man, my roomate has been trying to figure that thing out on his '92 for so long. we really thought it was big brother.

hah...keyless entry....