Anyone plan on using the JT as a commuter car?

[Strider62]

I commute 96 miles each way every day. Putting 1000 miles per week on my JT, plus whatever fun I'm having with it on the weekend. My commute is 2.5 to 3 hours each way, with 1 to 1.5 of that struggling through about 20 miles of stop and go rush hour Interstate traffic. The rest is split pretty evenly between divided highway (60-70 mph) and country roads (45-60 mph). I'm averaging 14.1 mpg right now (Overland, auto, with 37" tires).

I went with the leather seats, and I'm perfectly comfortable throughout the drive, though I've got long legs and sometimes my right knee lets me know it would prefer to have a little more room to stretch out... I installed a dead pedal, too, and that is a big help for leg fatigue.

And let me tell you - you set the heated seats on "3" and they'll literally scald your butt!

I got the base stereo, and it sounds just fine even though I'm running the soft-top.

The only thing that I would say is a drawback is that the mirrors could be a lot better, and when it's dark there is a lot of interior reflection on the soft-top's rear window. But I wouldn't trade it for the hard-top!

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[Gladiator4Runner]

What do you think your mileage would be if you didn't run the 37's? Have you done a long weekend trip w/o the stop and go?

 

[Strider62]

What do you think your mileage would be if you didn't run the 37's? Have you done a long weekend trip w/o the stop and go?

I had the dealer install the 37s as soon as it was delivered from the factory, so I can't really say. I've heard others say that you lose about 1 or 2 mpg when you go up from 33s to 37s, and I've also heard that you can get a small improvement in mpg when you go up form 33s to 35s (35s supposedly being the sweet-spot for tire size vs mpg)...but no proof of any of that.

I haven't taken any particularly long trips, but running on the highway at 60-70 mph on the cruise control my "current mpg" is usually between 15 and 16.

 

[BruteForce]

So, between the wife and I, we have 4 vehicles to pick and choose from: Toyota 4Runner (wife's prior), JT, Ram 3500 (my daily) and an Audi S4. The 4Runner and Audi sit for the most part while the wife drives the JT and I run the Ram 3500 Dually. Fuel Mileage? Who cares!

 

[NateKY]

I commute 96 miles each way every day. Putting 1000 miles per week on my JT

You got me beat, but not by much. I’m at 124 miles a day, so I got second. Lol.

I’m still not 100% sure what I’m going to do.

 

[Strider62]

I had the dealer install the 37s as soon as it was delivered from the factory, so I can't really say. I've heard others say that you lose about 1 or 2 mpg when you go up from 33s to 37s, and I've also heard that you can get a small improvement in mpg when you go up form 33s to 35s (35s supposedly being the sweet-spot for tire size vs mpg)...but no proof of any of that.

I haven't taken any particularly long trips, but running on the highway at 60-70 mph on the cruise control my "current mpg" is usually between 15 and 16.

Update: Maybe I'm learning how to drive it better or maybe the vehicle is just breaking in nicely now that I've surpassed 2000 miles on the odometer, but my average mpg is now just over 16. That's a running average from Day 1 of driving, so the increase over just the past four days from about 14mpg to 16mpg means my "current average" over those four days is even better than 16.

 

[Jowen]

Daily driver most days, also have a lifted jk, and a xy, retired and mileage depends.on what I am doing that day

 

[brancky3]

Update: Maybe I'm learning how to drive it better or maybe the vehicle is just breaking in nicely now that I've surpassed 2000 miles on the odometer, but my average mpg is now just over 16.

Ouch.. maybe I won't be going bigger on tires Running stock sport AT tires still.
My last 2 tanks are both over 20mpg (20.6 and 20.3) with zero highway driving.

 

[Murgatroid]

Yes it is my daily commute, I drive less than 2 miles to work.

 

[TRI-JAB]

Mine will be my daily driver. One reason to only go up to 35's.... Can't wait for it to be built

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