Mojito! Now Available on Jeep Gladiator For First Time!

[MudderNuker]

Mojito! Mojave X, tonneau cover, sunrider (forced to get that to get the MOPAR cover), and RSE power steps.

It's the exact same thing I was looking at in the 2024 models a year ago - but with this new color.

Was going to either buy a roll-up tonneau later or move mine over.
Barbara said - new truck, start new.
So got the factory roll-up tonneau. They force you into one of two option packages to get that these days - the sunrider or the trail rail package.
So it's the Mojave X with roll-up tonneau, MOPAR spray-in bedliner, sunrider.

I wanted something at least as nice riding as an Overland and nothing less as far as options.
We both insist on body color fender flares and roof - the X package is the only way to get those since 2024. So it had to be an X package Rubicon or Mojave.
The power seats are a good thing as my wife drives my JT now and then and she can't easily deal with the manual seat settings with her handicap.

The biggest NEGATIVE for me is the lack of LSD. I really rely on that a lot at times when towing, pulling my trailer up the gravel hill, and when plowing snow. that LSD in the Overland handles the snow plow around turns and on the straight like a dream. In fact, the traction control never kicks in even when plowing snow.
So the open differential of the Mojave will by a huge negative for me - We'll see how much I hate that the first time I have to pull my trailer up the steep loose gravel incline and up my neighbors gravel driveway, and plow snow up our steep driveway and around corners. I have zero use for a locking differential but it's forced.
If it doesn't work out, I'll see about swapping the rear locker for an LSD differential later.

Last year about this time, I was looking at a 2024 Mojave X in hydro blue.
I didn't really care for how the green interior looked against the blue (blue shows inside, too of course, it's a jeep LOL) and the orange on the hydro blue just didn't hit me right. I could have been ok with it, but the finances and other things didn't line up well at that time either. I have been looking since that day - checking out colors, prices, and saw that the 2025s had a fair price drop so kept watching even closer.
The thought of transferring all of my stuff to a new one was almost sickening, and my situation body-wise (my body) also killed it for last year. That's when I ended up in ER twice, emergency surgery, then the stupid doctor getting me into a tangle of drugs. So everything fell apart last year.
Except for Barbara's heart problems this year, finances are a bit better and the color and timing is right - mine will be 3 years this year - Edmunds says it's a sweet spot and mine is is really nice shape, a sweet spot for miles on the odo, too.

I tow a flat bed trailer and a camper with my JTR. When going up our 1/4 mile gravel driveway I just put in on 4h. Once off of our driveway the county gravel road is another mile out so to the black top. No issues in 4H. With the previous JTW the LSD was all I needed. Now I'm used to having an open diff in the back and it doesn't bother me to shift into 4H.

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[legacy_etu]

Mojito! Mojave X, tonneau cover, sunrider (forced to get that to get the MOPAR cover), and RSE power steps.

It's the exact same thing I was looking at in the 2024 models a year ago - but with this new color.

Was going to either buy a roll-up tonneau later or move mine over.
Barbara said - new truck, start new.
So got the factory roll-up tonneau. They force you into one of two option packages to get that these days - the sunrider or the trail rail package.
So it's the Mojave X with roll-up tonneau, MOPAR spray-in bedliner, sunrider.

I wanted something at least as nice riding as an Overland and nothing less as far as options.
We both insist on body color fender flares and roof - the X package is the only way to get those since 2024. So it had to be an X package Rubicon or Mojave.
The power seats are a good thing as my wife drives my JT now and then and she can't easily deal with the manual seat settings with her handicap.

The biggest NEGATIVE for me is the lack of LSD. I really rely on that a lot at times when towing, pulling my trailer up the gravel hill, and when plowing snow. that LSD in the Overland handles the snow plow around turns and on the straight like a dream. In fact, the traction control never kicks in even when plowing snow.
So the open differential of the Mojave will by a huge negative for me - We'll see how much I hate that the first time I have to pull my trailer up the steep loose gravel incline and up my neighbors gravel driveway, and plow snow up our steep driveway and around corners. I have zero use for a locking differential but it's forced.
If it doesn't work out, I'll see about swapping the rear locker for an LSD differential later.

Last year about this time, I was looking at a 2024 Mojave X in hydro blue.
I didn't really care for how the green interior looked against the blue (blue shows inside, too of course, it's a jeep LOL) and the orange on the hydro blue just didn't hit me right. I could have been ok with it, but the finances and other things didn't line up well at that time either. I have been looking since that day - checking out colors, prices, and saw that the 2025s had a fair price drop so kept watching even closer.
The thought of transferring all of my stuff to a new one was almost sickening, and my situation body-wise (my body) also killed it for last year. That's when I ended up in ER twice, emergency surgery, then the stupid doctor getting me into a tangle of drugs. So everything fell apart last year.
Except for Barbara's heart problems this year, finances are a bit better and the color and timing is right - mine will be 3 years this year - Edmunds says it's a sweet spot and mine is is really nice shape, a sweet spot for miles on the odo, too.

I’m with you on the LSD. I wish there was an option , either LSD or Locker in the Mohave ………..but only if it was a Tru Trac. LOL. I‘ve had the clutch based units and a tru Trac and I much prefer the mechanical LSD. The locker is not the best use case for me.

 

[MudderNuker]

I’m with you on the LSD. I wish there was an option , either LSD or Locker in the Mohave ………..but only if it was a Tru Trac. LOL. I‘ve had the clutch based units and a tru Trac and I much prefer the mechanical LSD. The locker is not the best use case for me.

TrueTracs are amazing. I have a '92 YJ with front and back TrueTracs and as long as you don't lift a tire in the air, (you can modulate the brakes) that thing is unstoppable.

 

[legacy_etu]

TrueTracs are amazing. I have a '92 YJ with front and back TrueTracs and as long as you don't lift a tire in the air, (you can modulate the brakes) that thing is unstoppable.

Agreed. I can’t imagine having one front and rear. When I first had mine installed in my JK I was amazed with how instantaneously it locked up. It honestly feels like a locker it’s so fast and positive locked.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I like Gecko!

He likes you, too...........

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I tow a flat bed trailer and a camper with my JTR. When going up our 1/4 mile gravel driveway I just put in on 4h. Once off of our driveway the county gravel road is another mile out so to the black top. No issues in 4H. With the previous JTW the LSD was all I needed. Now I'm used to having an open diff in the back and it doesn't bother me to shift into 4H.

Time will tell. The 4H auto is what I use snow plowing - it's wonderful. My driveway is so bad that this past winter when coming home I decided instead of backing down the slick driveway, I'd just pull in so I could be even more careful - got part way down going REALLY REALLY SLOW, came to a stop or tried and literally slid off the driveway into the yard. You can still see where my tires peeled the grass coming off the driveway. I put it in park, shut it off and that's where it stayed for a while. I finally drove through the yard in a huge circle and back onto the driveway closer to the garage where the drive is more level. There was nothing at all that could have handled that.

 

[MudderNuker]

Time will tell. The 4H auto is what I use snow plowing - it's wonderful. My driveway is so bad that this past winter when coming home I decided instead of backing down the slick driveway, I'd just pull in so I could be even more careful - got part way down going REALLY REALLY SLOW, came to a stop or tried and literally slid off the driveway into the yard. You can still see where my tires peeled the grass coming off the driveway. I put it in park, shut it off and that's where it stayed for a while. I finally drove through the yard in a huge circle and back onto the driveway closer to the garage where the drive is more level. There was nothing at all that could have handled that.

That happened to me too in January. I foolishly stopped going uphill on our driveway and when I attempted to drive up it couldn't, so I backed down but instead it slid towards a slope on our land. It slept down there and the next morning I tore up that slope. You can still see the marks. We woke up to snow today, but it is too cold and windy to break out my new snow plow for our UTV. Forecast call for wing gusts of up to 70MPH.

 

[Splenda]

Snow?! We have the threat of tornadoes, but I'll take our 76° today.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

 

[Slojo]

I like the fact that Jeep continues to make real colors, even though the car-buying public prefers black, white, and gray.

I believe the car buying public buys those because it is a "self-licking ice cream cone". They buy white, black, silver because the vast majority of the vehicles on the lots are produced that way as an economics move by the manufacturers.

 

[Tsqtomnkaren]

Sweet! You done did it... Let us see its where your gitt'er.

 

[Slojo]

I fully endorse Jeep pumping out colorful Jeeps. Wish they'd offer some variety in the cockpit other than black on lower MSRP versions. I won't change JTs until they do a new powertrain. I'd prefer the Hurricane SO but the long promised, never seen hybrid might be a temptation as well.

 

[Slojo]

I understand it adds roughly the same as a fart can does.

My dad always said put a chrome dipstick in the engine to reduce friction and it would go faster.

 

[Minty JL]

He likes you, too...........

Where have you been Bill?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I fully endorse Jeep pumping out colorful Jeeps. Wish they'd offer some variety in the cockpit other than black on lower MSRP versions. I won't change JTs until they do a new powertrain. I'd prefer the Hurricane SO but the long promised, never seen hybrid might be a temptation as well.

The JT 4xe will have a very different transmission and electric drive motor - more torque, more HP and up to 30 miles on electric vs the 25 most of us typically get with a JLU 4xe. Not a lot more, but for us 4 or 5 more miles is a huge thing with my wife's driving. So the combined HP and torque should be hemi territory.

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