Mine has had the louder tick at idle since I can remember. It is most noticeable in the garage or in the drive through line. Lately I have been experiencing what I thought was the throttle acceleration knocking and pinging. My question is, I hear the knocking/pinging during engine breaking also...
I also installed the Quadratec dead pedal this weekend. For the life of me, I couldn't break the factory mounting nut loose. Since the bolt is so long, I just mounted the washers and dead pedal on top of the nut and added another nut to lock it in place.
I tried to do this when I bought my Diode Dynamics fog lights. The price was the same as QT, but Diode Dynamics wanted $16 for shipping and no forum discount. With QT, I got the forum discount and free shipping. It was $35 cheaper to order from QT and get them drop shipped from Diode Dynamics.
Mine is a 2021. If you have the bumper with the silver bezels you need to get the "plastic bumper non sport". If you have the all black plastic bumper, you need the plastic sport. I would send a picture of your bumper to diode dynamics and ask them which one to order.
I bought the same fog lights for my Max Tow. I had to contact Diode Dynamics directly to find out which bracket to get.
It took a little back and forth but they told me to order the "plastic bumper (non sport)"
This is what I see on my hood looking out of the windshield. It looks like hammered copper with paint over it. I don't notice a finish like this on my Gobi JKU that I had for almost 4 years.
I have had my Granite Crystal Sport S since the end of September. I love the color but the orange peel bothers me sometimes on overcast days.
Do any of you guys with Granite Crystal see a lot of orange peel in the paint?
I bought it from the bank for 23K and got 32K for it in trade. Which is 9K in profit. Which I consider a "win". By trading it in I saved over 2K in sales tax. If the Toyota dealer got 35K for a used RAV4 with 40k miles than more power to them.
If you lease, you can still realize the appreciation. It just takes a little bit of work. When I paid off my JKU, the residual value was $23K plus sales tax. I traded it in for $32K and received a sales tax offset of $32K against the cost of my Gladiator.
My wife sold her leased Rav4 hybrid...
I got 1.99% financing from my Credit Union on my Gladiator. The dealership didn't even pretend they could come close to that rate. I would start there. I didn't even belong to the credit union before I applied for the loan.
If you want to keep the truck when the lease is up, you should start trying to buy the lease out soon. It took me 3+ months to buyout the lease on my JKU. Now that the vehicle values are so much higher than the residual values, the banks are trying to discourage people from buying the leases...
I just installed the same sport version of the Diode Dynamic amber fog lights this weekend. What a difference they make over the factory halogen fog lights. And the color is not as harsh as the factory LED's I had in my JKU. Just need to replace the headlights now.
I have this same bumper on my Sport S Max Tow. I am trying to buy LED fog lights. Do I need to get the ones for an Overland Bumper instead of a Sport bumper?
My 2021 Sport S Max Tow came with color matched fenders. The piece of black trim on the outside has larger tabs to make the fenders wider. This is the only picture I currently have of my Gladiator.