Wrong Cowl?

[AZJT]

Even those bolts look off... check to see if the driver's side ones are same/different

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[Zero_Accel]

Bizarre, looks like someone swapped you at either the dealer or the lot at work.

These cowl pieces are only held in by the four bolts, I've removed mine with a torx bit on my small impact in less than 30 seconds.

Or the dealer put the wrong one back on.

 

[Snake Eyes]

Hmmmmm…..install another gray on the other side. Add some gray graphics on the hood and sides….walla! Custom gladiator!!!

To take off my cowl required going through the effort or removing pain in the a** bolts for my 4 auxiliary lights and brackets on both sides. Putting them off was a bear. More power if someone wants my cowl and goes through trying to remove everything including my overly tightened stock antenna!!! Hell with all that effort they can have my aux lights!!! .

 

[XJFanatic]

FWIW both my JL and JT have slightly off paint on the cowls. My assumption has always been they are painted separately as the body is painted beneath them.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

FWIW both my JL and JT have slightly off paint on the cowls. My assumption has always been they are painted separately as the body is painted beneath them.

 

[DBravo]

November in Ontario and it's plenty warm enough to wash the (black) truck by hand in short sleeves. So I did. And I noticed this. I've owned the (black) truck for 19 months from new. I've never done any work with the cowl on that side of the truck. So the question is: do I have someone else's cowl?

Yikes! From Cowl to Scowl - I'd be pretty upset too.

 

[GOCAMPN]

These photos just make me laugh, my whole rollbar/framework under my hardtop is completely green, primer I guess? Like they didn't even try to paint it.

 

[Deleted member 53332]

November in Ontario and it's plenty warm enough to wash the (black) truck by hand in short sleeves. So I did. And I noticed this. I've owned the (black) truck for 19 months from new. I've never done any work with the cowl on that side of the truck. So the question is: do I have someone else's cowl?

Is it Sting Gray or just unpainted plastic? Looks more like the latter.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I still wonder how/why this was not noticed when installing the stubby, airing up or down the tires, or doing any other type of maintenance, look-over, getting into/out of the right side, whatever.
I noticed the first week that on my 2020 the top had been painted in a different orientation to the rest of the truck. Pretty obvious in some colors with any metallic to them.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

These photos just make me laugh, my whole rollbar/framework under my hardtop is completely green, primer I guess? Like they didn't even try to paint it.

It's done robotically. No human involved in the actual painting.
However, the pics shown, one of them is the inspection as they come out of paint, areas are smoothed/adjusted, whatever, by humans.
How the heck did they miss that rollbar structure.

 

[MattHamilton]

I still wonder how/why this was not noticed when installing the stubby, airing up or down the tires, or doing any other type of maintenance, look-over, getting into/out of the right side, whatever.
I noticed the first week that on my 2020 the top had been painted in a different orientation to the rest of the truck. Pretty obvious in some colors with any metallic to them.

As I said earlier, I've got a picture from 3 weeks ago that I'm pretty sure shows the piece as black, but it's from an almost straight on angle, so it's hard to tell. The stubby I put on like 18 months ago. I do handwash it when I wash it, but I've been a little lax this fall. And honestly I don't look at that side of the vehicle very often. It's just such a WTF thing.....

 

[ShadowsPapa]

One option no one has mentioned yet -
Someone swapped with you - now hang on - that's not all.......... don't go looking for one with your color on it.
They had a problem with theirs, they found a replacement that was the wrong color, they put that one on your truck and used yours on their truck.
If that were to happen, you'd never see a gray one on the road with a black piece.
Say they had a black truck, could only find a gray replacement, came across your truck and swapped.

Not saying that's what happened - but it's one way to explain it out of a least 2 or 3 ways to explain it, maybe more.

 

[ZoMojave]

November in Ontario and it's plenty warm enough to wash the (black) truck by hand in short sleeves. So I did. And I noticed this. I've owned the (black) truck for 19 months from new. I've never done any work with the cowl on that side of the truck. So the question is: do I have someone else's cowl?

Oh jeez. Now we have to worry about installing security bolts in our cowl panels! What's next?

 

[JTBurns]

That is really crazy. Any chance you have a friend with a grey jeep and a sense of humor? Highly unlikely, but I've heard of people swapping doors as a joke before.

 

[Chuck]

That is really crazy. Any chance you have a friend with a grey jeep and a sense of humor? Highly unlikely, but I've heard of people swapping doors as a joke before.

I thought this same thing

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