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Yeah, I wasn't speculating that the market would remain stupid-high as it has was during '21-'22 with the ridiculous dealer markups - anyone with any sense knew that was not sustainable - but I DID assume they'd keep selling at or near MSRP - as Wranglers/Gladiators usually do. I did NOT count...

I just bought my '22 Gladiator Sport S last year (almost to the day) - brand new for just under invoice due to the company I work for having a relationship with Stellantis for fleet vehicles. I still thought it was stupid expensive for what it is but wanted to try one anyway - and justified it...

Correct... the strike is not expanding further at Stellantis, but it also isn't ending there yet. The Jeep assembly plant in Toledo that produces the Wrangler and Gladiator is still shut down.

Some people are jerks... whatchagonnado? Obviously, not everyone is into ducks, so I only duck them if they already have one or more on their dash. As others have said, I also thought it was silly... until I got one. It's harmless fun and it makes your day when you get one. There is SO much...

Because it IS the same engine. Yes, it has been revised/improved over it's lifetime as issues have been identified and addressed... but I think it IS correct to say that over 15 million of them have been produced. Obviously the more recent ones have all of the revisions and should be the most...

I think that's true for a lot of cars... like maybe the Nissan Sentra forum... but true not for the Wrangler and Gladiator. Jeeps are very different vehicles that are typically heavily modified and used in very different ways than your average car/truck. TONS of people come here daily to talk...

While it's true that I started riding motorcycles over 40 years ago, I'm still riding them today... have four of them at the moment, so yes, I'm well acquainted with the differences between the various battery types and have used most of them at some point... from plain old-school flooded...

I disagree that there is an equal chance of the main failing as the aux. I think the aux is far more likely to fail sooner - and there are plenty of first-hand accounts of exactly that happening on here and in many other Wrangler/Gladiator forums/groups. The aux is a dinky little thing...

Okay… I’m sure there are rare occasions where the main battery may be defective and fails first, but I’d bet my next paycheck that the vast majority of the time, it’s the little aux. battery that fails first. You’re right… I’m sure the dealership load tests batteries to determine whether...

I have an aftermarket tray in the top of my console that has a slot designed into it to allow a cable to pass through the rear edge of it - and there's a similar indention made into the console/lid. I originally had a nice short cable plugged in there and running out the side of the console to...

What most likely happened was, your aux. battery was weak/dead and slowly killed your main. The dealer should have known this (likely DID) and changed it out when you took it in with those obvious warning signs (for over a year!). If/when I get those warnings and it's still during the 3/36...

Regarding whining about what a CEO makes, when I was a couple of years into my first "real job" after graduating college back in the late 80's, I saw one of our Exec. VP's (our top salesman and the right-hand man of the founder/CEO) come rolling into the parking lot one morning in a shiny new...

I also come from the sports car world, but I don't think the Gladiator/Wrangler fits that niche vehicle category at all. They build a crap ton of them and they're pretty primitive compared to a modern sports car. FCA/Stellantis had built over 10,000,000 (10 MILLION) 3.6L Pentastar engines as of...

Reminds me of the issue Chevy had with the new C6 Corvette back in 2005 - where the outer skin of the targa roof panel would delaminate from the frame and fly off at speed like that. Apparently it was a problem with the adhesive they were using (either the adhesive itself or the way it was being...

I've used the orange RainX fluid for years in other vehicles and never had any trouble. I had JUST filled up the reservoir in my Gladiator a few months ago when I came across a thread like this one... so I promptly siphoned most of it back out and pumped out the rest through the nozzles... then...

That photo doesn't prove anything because we don't know what LED bulbs are in that particular Jeep. The light pattern they throw is VERY dependent on the way the bulb is constructed. There are some out there now that exactly mimic the halogen filament position, size and thickness. Those cast a...

It totally depends on the LED bulb. If it has LEDs that exactly mimic the position and thickness of the halogen bulb's wire coil, it will produce the same beam pattern and will not blind oncoming drivers...

I used to preach this same sermon, but thankfully it's no longer relevant. Many/most (all?) of the current better LED bulbs/lamps are designed to be used in reflector housing made for a halogen bulb. They are designed so that the light source on the LED is the same height from the base as the...

I don't buy that the majority of the people on this forum only come here to complain. It IS true that you'll see a lot of posts made by people who having a problem and are in search of a solution (and you'll certainly see posts about the more common problems over and over again because...

Just curious what the typical expected lifespan of an aux battery is. There are lots of variables that this simple poll can't address - such as climate vehicle is in, average miles driven daily, whether or not the auto stop-start is typically used or turned off, etc. ... but this should give us...