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Uses a smartphone connected to WiFi to connect through an ISP to use Google to search for a forum to post about the privacy concerns of Stellantis/XMSirius sending mileage telemetry to your Mopar account. ? I would worry about the Jeep telemetry only after I’ve addressed the following: Secure...

That’s not poser rock. That’s just along the trail at BL. I don’t think mine scraped that. I only scraped, and almost got stuck along some wash my confused ass went down. Poser rock is at Uwharrie in NC. No Gladiator is making it over that.

The dealershit experience sounds familiar. I’m in Southeastern (Hampton Roads) Va. I bought mine from a dealership where I had family in management at the auto group. That didn’t make a difference in their awfulness. So I switched to a slightly closer dealer that I’ve had good luck with in the...

Stop driving a brick with 1940s suspension.

CJ’s and TJs on 40+ tires, and buggies break driveshafts attempting to go over poser rock at Uwharrie, but some make it. Any vehicle with decent approach angle can drive up one side. Zero chance you “went right over like it was nothing” in a Gladiator. ?. I’m throwing a flag on that claim. A...

I think most makers actually advertise that their belly skids actually increase clearance over the stock skids (which they replace) and factory cross members. Aluminum may not slide as well as steel, but neither slides really well. They all slide better than cross members and the bottoms of...

The first time I took my new $70k JTRD off road at my old stomping ground, Big Levels in Virginia, it was like Ralphie finally getting his Red Rider and then immediately shooting himself in the eye. The stock truck was worse than my teenage years 91’ Nissan on 32s, by a lot. I had realistic...

The steel bumper group comes with heavier springs. The factory steel bumpers are very light since they’re stamped steel so some of that is to accommodate a winch. However most aftermarket bumpers are heavy because non-OEM manufacturers don’t have access to expensive stamping machinery that can...

I was just watching a recent The Story Till Now https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC_QteyvNZKtK5qPWlPbrl-Q and at one point one of the trucks with some kind of rack (not one of trucks with a cap) goes over a bump and you see their whole rack, racking back and forth from side to side. I have no idea...

I grew up with my father doing 100% of the work on our house and cars. I inherited that same mentality. It’s partly being cheap, it’s partly not trusting people and it’s partly legitimately enjoying the work. Occasionally I encounter something I can’t or won’t do or don’t have the equipment for...

No, that’s it. I have some self grip Velcro (or whatever that’s called) straps I was going to use, or I was going to have to sew it. After playing with it, found that the simplest thing worked. I swapped this: For this: Where the strap runs through the clip end, just run it through the 1...

Finally a good attic! I had a Raingler. There were some issues with its mounting (it tensioned unevenly). But at least it could be tensioned. The big problem is that it’s just open webbing. I usually keep rain jackets in the attic and sleeves are always falling down through its large hole. It’s...

In Virginia on I-95 one of the car ride games used to be looking for flood cars being towed North and salt corrosion cars being towed South.

I even had a bad rivnut when I installed my ARB sliders. I started to freak out because I had a bolt sticking out and you can’t put too much torque on a rivnut. I ran a tap through it and it was good to go.

My dealership’s (although, I don’t feel like I have a dealer anymore) tech (senior guy too) completely covered the driver side of the truck in oil then didn’t torque the filter. Then I went to change it for the first time myself and spilled zero oil. There’s a gd cup that catches the oil. I...

I don’t understand why people freak out about this. The body is full of holes. The cab has huge holes in the floor. Mud, which is basically blasting grit, from water crossings, gets caked all over the underside of the truck around these factory holes. In 120k miles I had zero corrosion issues on...

Since it’s going to be in a parking garage where they can’t get it onto a flatbed, if it’s going to be stored there, just get locking hood latches and disconnect the battery. Of course fully disconnecting the negative is a stupid multi-step process on this truck.

ARB. The main thing a rocker guard or slider actually does is protect the upper side of your body, doors, fenders, etc. Most of the time you’re hitting the underside of the truck and not the sliders. My drop brackets, control arms and skid plates took the brunt of the abuse at the Potts...

Good points. A caveat to my post is that my experience is South East coast and Appalachia centric. I also do a lot of fall and spring overlanding to avoid the humidity. So sun angles are more of an issue. I’m constantly dealing with cloud cover and east coast mountain trails are overgrown. It’s...

Prepping hard for my first 2024 trip…. https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/usless-worthless-mods-and-accessories-wtf-thread.75580/post-1256185 nO, Mr oCifer rAnGer, mAn. ITs wAtEr, nOt rUM!