JAVIERGONZO
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Android auto is way better than Apple Car Play.
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That is great. I'm at 1600 miles and I'm getting 13 mpg max. I have 35s but still thought I'd see 16 on the road. I'm in East Texas which is a little hilly and windy this time of year. Hoping it is break in and winter blend. Maybe this summer I'll hit 15.One other thing. I averaged 15.3 mpg for the trip based on the computer. I cruised at 72 to 75.
4wd Auto was on roughly 1/2 of the trip.
I use Carplay all the time for spotify and Apple Maps. Did not renw Sirius cause signal sucks unless your on an open highway.The worst thing about Apple Car Play sucking so bad is that I now need to figure out a mount for the phone. I originally thought I'd just stow it in the center glove box.
Its funny you should ask that. I just checked them they were 41 PSI. I will let air out tomorrow.What was your tire pressure? Mine is very comfortable at any speed and can hold the lane without much trouble if there isn't wind.
Mine have been checked and checked, and frankly if I had to have them any lower - I'd go back to halogens. They don't shine out very far at all on low beam.My headlights were not adjusted correctly from the factory either and was flashed daily. My JLUR never had an issue but my Gladiator definitely had the headlights aimed too high. Luckily it is easy to readjust and recommend to lower them a bit.
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That's just crazy - almost everyone I've talked to about tire inflation say they got their JT with 41psi in the tires - didn't seem to matter the level or model, it was always 41. Even when I had new tires put on mine - they set them to 41 psi and they should be lower than stock tires.Its funny you should ask that. I just checked them they were 41 PSI. I will let air out tomorrow.
Ask my wife where nav on my truck has sent us - it's a freaking joke. Colorado Springs area - my wife wanted to go shopping in one of the shopping centers. It was 2 lanes both directions in front of the shopping center - there were left turn areas that went into the shopping area - but the truck said go to the next light, make a u-turn and come back and turn right into the shopping center. HUH?I have the factory navigation system which fills my needs perfectly
It's a Jeep navigation; maybe it's about taking a less direct and more relaxing route.That's just crazy - almost everyone I've talked to about tire inflation say they got their JT with 41psi in the tires - didn't seem to matter the level or model, it was always 41. Even when I had new tires put on mine - they set them to 41 psi and they should be lower than stock tires.
Ask my wife where nav on my truck has sent us - it's a freaking joke. Colorado Springs area - my wife wanted to go shopping in one of the shopping centers. It was 2 lanes both directions in front of the shopping center - there were left turn areas that went into the shopping area - but the truck said go to the next light, make a u-turn and come back and turn right into the shopping center. HUH?
Then another time - it had us turn off a main road, took us past a school zone during the day, through residential areas, at least 3 stop signs, then a few blocks later had us turn back onto the main road it had us leave! Coming back I ignored it and stayed on that main road and shaved 10 minutes off the trip. It's done that to us several times - even around Overland Park it was sending us through residential areas and crazy routes.
But the worst of it was Colorado Springs area - I mean I could have used a road map better than that NAV did. I finally got my phone out and loaded up WAZE and we compared routes. WAZE was faster, more direct, not heavy traffic where the JT's NAV was having us make multiple turns and backtracking and going residential. We used WAZE leaving the area and it took us out a far superior route and cut a lot of time off our trip.
LOL - school zones, residential areas packed with cars and houses relaxing. Oxymoron, sort of like government intelligence - maybe a contradiction in terms. I guess it never listened to John Denver........It's a Jeep navigation; maybe it's about taking a less direct and more relaxing route.
A lot of good observations that I'm sure each and every new Mojave owner has noticed.Hi all, so I finally picked up my Gladiator at Gupton and have a bunch of thoughts and some questions I'd like to share.
In general the truck's mechanical aspects are very straightforward with no real leaning curve. The electronics though took a while. So here is a list as I took notes during the ride.
1. Apple Car Play is a huge disappointment. I thought it would essentially present my apps on the car's display. Well,kind of but not quite. When I am driving somewhere I dont' know I like to have my map presented North Up and zoomed out so I can actually understand where I am and what is around me.
Car Play's presentation of all major mapping apps doesn't allow this. (Apple Maps, google maps, and Waze) After a while I figured out how to make Google Maps (my preferred) north up. But you can't zoom out. Its set at a zoom of about 500 ft. This is a useful size for when you want turn by turn guidance in a city but is less than useless when you are driving 1100 miles in 16 hours on the interstate.
2. Its reasonably quiet up to just a bit over 70. Its pretty loud by 75. This is good for me. I am hoping the Gladiator will slow me down as a driver. So far so good.
3. Its quicker than I anticipated. My memory of the demos that I drove weren't of it really being able to accelerate on the highway. But I really didn't have any trouble. I was very pleasantly surprised. Of course I'm not afraid to run it up to 5500 rpm. So that may be it.
4. which leads to the transmission - this may be the nicest automatic I've ever driven. Its quick to downshift when I need the power. Which is pretty much always. I spent a fair amount of time in 7th and 8th gear manual so that I could run run at high throttle settings up hills which helps with break in. And it is truly gutless in 7th and 8th. But the transmission always seems to grab the right gear on first attempt when you need more poke.
5. The Mojave's ride is amazingly good. Compliance is acceptable. Body motion control is exceptional.
6. The tires are bigger in person. I was originally going to put 35s on it right away. I think I'll wait a couple of years for that.
7. Factory LED low beams are exceptional. I couldn't believe how bright they were and nobody flashed their lights at me. High beams are good. But not as much of an improvement as you might think.
8. 4-Auto works great. I found myself in a couple of snow squalls starting in WV and they had no equipment out. The road was unplowed and untreated. I pulled off for gas during one snow squall and was able to accelerate from the bottom of the exit ramp pretty hard with no slippage. It was also seamless. Though for some reason there is a small amount of noise when its engaged on the highway.
9) The steering definitely takes some getting used to. At the beginning of the trip it was mentally exhausting to keep the truck between the lane markers. By the end of the trip it was second nature.
A question - I'm used to an HVAC with an auto setting that automatically turns on the AC compressor. The AC light comes on and if you don't want it on, you tap the AC button. This leaves it in Auto mode but it can't run the AC. This is a good way to do things on dry winter days.
Overall it was a fun
In the Jeep, when you tap Auto, the AC light doesn't light up. Is it on? If you tap AC the AC light comes on but the Auto light goes off.
There doesn't seem to be a way to have it in Auto without AC engaged. Am I missing something?
I've only ever sat in one other vehicle that had seats as good or perhaps very slightly better - it was my wife's cousin's Ford - I THINK it was an Escape. I drove it one day and didn't want to get back out of it. Didn't like the rest of it but the seat were nice.One other thing. The seats were surprisingly good.
Coming from a Volvo almost anything is a step down when it comes to seats. But my back didn't start to hurt until 11 hours into the trip. Pretty good.