Neat, and glad it works and makes me smarter. I bought mine just to get out of my tropical back yard when it rains and maintain my macadamia nut orchard. I wanted a stick-both on transfer case and tranny. And the bedrails are too darn high on a Colorado! Do I like my JT? I enjoy it a lot...
I agree completely with the cab cube size, lack of it. Three people inside and we cannot get the groceries inside when it rains-the JT has all the cab size of a 2002 GMC Sonoma 4-door. The child plus kid stuff takes up two seats...and what if you have a second child? Sure, we could hop in...
I carry beach towels on the seats...wrap the tops and bungee them to the back of the cab. The bag stays in the closet at home. They stay vertical and are out of the way.
I am driving a sport S myself. Does all I want and need it to do. I don't want any technical 4x4 challenges but overlanding would be fun! There are features on the "named" models that I just don't have a use for with garden trash hauling and mild off road time.
I have only leased one vehicle because I could not afford to buy it at the time. I ended up buying it at the end it was such a good car. It died 379,000 miles on the ticker.
Just watch the calculations of the residual value at the end of the lease.
I have bypassed and removed my aux batt. ESS is disabled even though it doesn't happen often on a manual tranny. My intention is to replace the stock primary battery with a larger size that fits the stock battery tray when it fails. There was a thread related to that battery size swap, though...
I store 6 months. I remove the battery and put a trickle charger on it with a timer. Only an hour each day. I have left batteries in before and had a wet battery fail and overflow and make a mess in an other vehicle.
Why an hour a day? To prevent that failure again and ruin stuff or have a...
I donāt worry about or record gas mileage. I made my purchase for other reasons.
1st and 2nd are āshortā or ācloseā gears. The rest are ātall gearsā for mileage. I can see that if you are stop and go in town mileage would suffer being in the close ratio and lower Range gears.
On the manual...
If a neighbor canāt see headlights flashing they have no idea where it is and ignore it or worse, it irritates them and they only look forward to it stopping. A horn based alarm just isnāt much help unless you are there to look because you have an equipped vehicle.
Yeah, itās me too, I donāt...
Jeep can still make all kinds of trim, equipment levels, and it would show in the VIN.
Meanwhile, you have to show me and other Jeepers with giant letters that you paid more for that stuff? I show you I don't need all that "stuff" by purchasing a Sport S. Does all the things I ask of it...