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Why did you buy your Gladiator?

Why did you buy a Galidator?


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This is my second M235, what a boat!
My lake is full of G-23’s, they all surf 5’ behind their boat. My kids are about 15’ behind mine. We’ve had fun with the Bu after having several MasterCraft’s. All the boats in that price range are nice but the Malibu just checked off all the right boxes for us.
Look at the little rippers out there shedding! I am currently on my 3rd Axis a T22... love it! the wake is boosting and the surf wave is phenomenal. I am like you I have previously owned another Malibu... and three other Mastercraft’s, the last Mastercraft being an XStar... the lake is a huge part of our life. Let me know if you ever get down to TN— Dale Hollow and we will hit the water. :rock:
 

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Look at the little rippers out there shedding! I am currently on my 3rd Axis a T22... love it! the wake is boosting and the surf wave is phenomenal. I am like you I have previously owned another Malibu... and three other Mastercraft’s, the last Mastercraft being an XStar... the lake is a huge part of our life. Let me know if you ever get down to TN— Dale Hollow and we will hit the water. :rock:
Deal. If you get near the DFW area let me know. My lake house is in Gainesville, about an hour North of Dallas.
 

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This is how it works for us - my truck needed new tires - so I bought the Gladiator.
The silverado was big and I didn't often put big things in the Chevy box and it wouldn't fit in our FULL garage and barely fit into the lean-to of my shop. Those were other reasons, uh, well, excuses.

Back in about 1990 when my wife's Camaro needed a front end alignment - we had trouble finding a shop that could do it, and that I trusted (lived in a house with no garage and all my tools were in storage) so we traded cars. It was easier.

When my son was looking for a car a while back - I went along with him to help him pick one out and my wife and I ended up trading her Grand Cherokee for a new one. Hey, we were at a dealership anyway, so it wasn't out of our way at all.

Any excuse....... need tires? Buy a new truck. Oops, the Jeep truck won't haul a heavy trailer - wife says - so go buy a lighter trailer.
That's ok, my other trailer needed tires anyway.
And we've had great luck with her Jeeps.
 

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I had both an F350 and a JKU (2nd Jeep I’ve owned) and only one spot in the driveway, but I have to occasionally tow our travel trailer. I will always own a Jeep. So I them both and bought a GCM LE off a lot nearby. The gladiator scratches two itches for me.
 

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It's simple: I want a Jeep but need a truck. Prior to the Gladiator you couldn't have both without two loan payments and two insurance premiums. The Gladiator checks off all the boxes.
 

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I'm still trying to get over this and figure out viable options.
Cold weather package gets you heated seats/wheel and remote start. 2 of those three things are very easy to add aftermarket. So if you can live without a heated steering wheel...seems like that's a good compromise...
 

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Cold weather package gets you heated seats/wheel and remote start. 2 of those three things are very easy to add aftermarket. So if you can live without a heated steering wheel...seems like that's a good compromise...
it was 20F each of the last two mornings. Remote start that heats the seat and wheel is absolutely amazing.
 

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it was 20F each of the last two mornings. Remote start that heats the seat and wheel is absolutely amazing.
It was 5 here earlier this week - with a high of about 15 -
oh yay to heated wheel when you have fingers that have been in the table saw, smashed by differentials, and other things, and have Raynaud's to boot.
 

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It's simple: I want a Jeep but need a truck. Prior to the Gladiator you couldn't have both without two loan payments and two insurance premiums. The Gladiator checks off all the boxes.
Couldn't have said it any better...
 

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It's simple: I want a Jeep but need a truck. Prior to the Gladiator you couldn't have both without two loan payments and two insurance premiums. The Gladiator checks off all the boxes.
Exactly

Cold weather package gets you heated seats/wheel and remote start. 2 of those three things are very easy to add aftermarket. So if you can live without a heated steering wheel...seems like that's a good compromise...
I am considering is just buying the harness and parts and doing it myself after I buy the truck
 

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Cold weather package gets you heated seats/wheel and remote start. 2 of those three things are very easy to add aftermarket. So if you can live without a heated steering wheel...seems like that's a good compromise...
Out of the 3, the heated steering wheel is my favorite and by far the most useful. For $995, that package was a good deal.
 

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Out of the 3, the heated steering wheel is my favorite and by far the most useful. For $995, that package was a good deal.
And for now mine sits under a lean-to exposed to full cold temps and sometimes snow and frost - so the remote start was needed. My Chevy had that and I used it a lot. Didn't have the heated wheel though - and I always wished it had so I insisted on the cold weather group on this baby. Even my WJ and Javelin and my wife's Grand Cherokee sit in a detached unheated garage where it can get down to 0 or less and my wife uses the remote start a lot - she doesn't like the heated wheel and seats so much but if I have to move that thing, I use 'em. My shop is heated, climate control year-around but no room to park anything else in there until I get my niece's car restored.
 

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It's simple: I want a Jeep but need a truck. Prior to the Gladiator you couldn't have both without two loan payments and two insurance premiums. The Gladiator checks off all the boxes.
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