My wife said the same thing on the last two dogs that aged out with us. After awhile, the quiet and lack of routine taking care of something got to her and soften that stance.
I am talking in generalities and really have no skin in the game since I am not contemplating either option.
Your first post on the subject reads like cost and logistics just got in the way of not springing for the AMW conversion and not that it was technically the lesser of the two options...
Seems like a middle of the road pricing. Not great, not bad. The CarFax looks decent and shows basic maintenance was done with no adverse visits recorded.
2 Owners does not bother me as people buy and change vehicles for a myriad of reasons that are not adverse. Whether one owner or more...
Just my 2 cents, but I think the AMW option is the more mature of the two. While not scientific or data reproduceable by any means, just appears in my perception that AMW conversion owners are more satisfied than I have seen of those that went to some forced induction option with the current...
That has always been the problem with aftermarket and lift springs. They have to make a "one size fits all" part number set for the front/rear that can never match the tuning of OEM shocks that will have a multitude of part numbers with unique spring rates for each corner depending on model and...
Quite honestly, I am tired of the shifting expectations of the tipping culture here in the USA. I should not be in the middle of a restaurants and employees wage determination.
Use to be tipping was a reward for over and above and has devolved into meeting just minimum service expectations...
If you take your front wheel bearing hub off, be careful with those 12 point bolts as they are like $45 or so each from MOPAR for replacement and standard off the shelf bolts will not work. People tend to loosen them and leave a few threads in the hub and try to beat the hub out from the knuckle...
Can you duplicate it sitting and turning the steering wheel sharply back and forth? If so, may need a second body to lay on the ground and observe the front end.
Could also raise each side up front and with the suspension drooping on its own check the ball joints the old fashion way with a...
I am in the camp of sell the rears and buy the application specific ones instead. There is another thread awhile back of someone getting some high end reservoir shocks used shocks for basically “free” and that “free” got to be expensive trying to make them adapt.
The housing cracking at the body where the oil filter sits was primarily a pre PUG Gen 1 thing with most being 2013 and prior with the old oil filter design.
Most times nowadays it is the o-ring(s) blowing out from the housing assembly base to the upper block. Most shop mechanics that see it...
Does not necessarily mean the OEM fuse was bad or faulty. Lions share of the fuse arrays going out can be traced to battery changes or aux battery deletes and people not knowing what they are doing or understand the two battery in parallel system and short the fuse array to include dealership techs.
The fabric that is on the 24+ dash panels appears to be synthetic and treated. I have had mud, coffee, kool-aid, soda, dog slobber and even oatmeal flung on mine and the stuff beaded up and wiped off fine.
Not saying it is better than prior years, but it is not going to soak up like a shop rag...
Since you asked, I think it looks "cheesy".
That being said, I learned long ago to stop caring what others think of how, what and why I do the things I choose to do.