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Glad you finally have your Jeep and sorry everything wasn't as it should be. A new Jeep is supposed to bring absolutely NOTHING but pure joy.
As far as your top situation, look at it as a chance to see a different color top and decide if you like it better or not. If the black looks good, then just keep it, but if you are still sure that you want dark khaki, make them replace the top. Who says the two tops have to be the same color? No one can see both tops at the same time anyway. It might even be cool to have the hard top and the soft top in different colors. Would give your Jeep a whole new look when you switch tops.
But still, it's whacky and down right tacky that both tops are not khaki, by cracky.
Sorry, devil made me do it.
Mike, you would have wanted a set of torx sockets and/or wrenches anyway. If you are going to do any mods on your Jeep, you are going to run into torx bolts everywhere. My advice on the torx sockets is to get a good quality set of individual sockets, like Craftsmen. They make cheap sets that are just torx inserts that are used with a common driver, and these have too much slop when you use them. It is SO easy to strip a torx head, so you don't want that slop that just makes it easier to strip something.
Get some pics posted! Enjoy that new Jeep!
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Uh, Mike, that would be "Steel Blue."
Tomster
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Guess I have a thing for darker cars. I complain about having to keep em clean and how much dirt shows, but I just can't pull the trigger on a light-colored car. Go figure.
-Paul
-Paul
Tomster
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Below is a link to a beryl green with a khaki hardtop someone posted the other day. This identical to mine with the exception i have the khaki soft top.
http://carinfo.autofi.com/cardealers/vehicle.aspx?category=1&dealerid=31&stockno=CN34135&s- - - - i=AZCarDealers
Guess I could have seen that coming.
-Mike
Thanks. My 2000 Sahara came with 1 security lug nut on the spare. I feel kinda worried that my spare on my '05 is "hanging in the breeze" so to say.
The hard top I have is black. Black as coal.
I just called my sales guy. Needless to say the top color issue brought an "Oh" on his part. I'm not sure what I'll do at this point. I may keep the black hard top, but I'd like to see the color of the dark khaki one in person before I make that decision.
I'm still happy that I have a Wrangler again. These are just small issues to iron out.
Semper Fi,
Mike
It is amazing what DC chooses to not include in Wranglers. The aforementioned clothes hanger, grab handles, door sill gaurds, decent floor mats...I spent more than $300 just on those small items. I still don't have a lock on the spare, but I think I'll do that soon. You've got me worrying now! *lol*
For all of you with new Wranglers, here are a few items I've found to be indispensable:
Husky Floor Liners--I have them front, rear and in the back. You can get these through most of the Jeep catalogs.
Rainger hand grips--definitely the best roll bar hand grips out there: Raingler Grips
Best Top door sill gaurds--got them through Quadratec. The sills can get beat up very quickly.
The real problem, after taking off the valve cover, is that there are at least 4 collapsed lifters, bad news, especially since I only have 72,000 miles on it. I only hope that there isn't anything else wrong with it.
by the way, I know its been a while since I started this post, but I've been busy with college finals.
Thanks -- Jeff
As long as the tail gate is closing and latching, there shouldn't be a problem. If it really bothers you, you could shave some rubber off of that bumper, but you wouldn't want to go too far. That bumper keeps the spare and the spare carrier from rattling.
What tires did you get? Did you get a good trade in on your Get Stuck Anywheres?
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
I bought Bridgestone Revos and love them so far. They seem quieter on the highway than the GSAs. I did OK on the deal, they gave me $50 for each of the GSAs and Bridgestone is running a $75 mail-in rebate on the purchase of a set or Revos. I was hoping for more for the old tires considering they had 60 miles on them & the spare was brand new, but how much can the tire shop really get for them anyway.
I will try to post a pic of the jeep tonight.
Thanks again -- Jeff
on the opposite side of the parking lot is a great little stream but I could not talk her into driving in it to take these pictures, she wouldn't even let me drive into it. she thought the local police might not be lovers of jeeps like we both are.
we are planning to help with some trail building next weekend, but no luck so far in convincing her to drive.
She has a nice looking Jeep there!
Tomster
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
the light is not on that illuminates the tach, speedometer, etc. its not a problem during the daytime, but at night its a bit of a pain. it just happened this last weekend.
at first I thought it was just a fuse or something easy to fix.
but the next time I started the jeep, i used the remote starter. the dash lights were on until i put the key in turned it and stepped on the brake, then it went out.
any ideas?? wanted to hear some thoughts on this before I stop in the dealership tomorrow and they tell me its not covered by the warranty because of the remote starter .
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Jeff
My guess is a short some place.It could be easy to find or a huge pain the rump. Start checking the wires...
I placed a set of rear lamps on my Jeep and since then, once in awhile, if the left blinker is on and I push the break pedal, the blinker will stay light but not blink. I have been too lazy to fix it myself...
By the way, that's what an Unlimited looks like with the top down. Here's another one.
Great feature, Edmunds!
jeff
You might give any power transitors under the dashboard a gentle "twist" the next time that condition happens...though, not being familiar with Wrangler wiring, power transitors might be inside "black boxes".
I remember my days in my Beretta before fixing the problem and keeping a flashlight handy to periodically read the gauges when my dash lights went out. I wish you luck finding the problem.
Works for me (on dialup) too. I can quickly download the thumbs and text, and if I want to see the full sized pic I can open it in another window at my leisure.
She's a beauty! Congratulations!
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Tomster
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
-Paul
tidester, host
-Paul
tidester, host
Yep, it's a raised lip and has a hole in the middle where the seatbelts come through--raised lip around that also. Goes back and under the seat. Works very well. Here's a link to it:
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Heck check it out on the hardtop, the black might look better than the khaki, plus u can have two looks to your jeep with the dual tops, kinda cool imo.......
Laura
Thanks for the update. Keep us posted!
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Welcome.
I checked Quadratec for ya, but they only have the handles in black or chrome, not stainless steel.
Good luck.
Tom
Have you hugged your Jeep today?
Photo is there, if you click it, but the thumbnail doesn't show... hhrmm..
-Paul
Maybe they took off the thumbnail photo because it was a set pixel size, which was different than most photos. That's what made mine look so distorted. I had thought about how to make a photo match their thumbnail size without having the distortion - it looked like the length was twice the height. That would make cropping a photo of an essentially square vehicle tough. You could do it better with a low slung, long sports car, like the Ferrari I saw at the Ferrari dealership at the Wynn Resort last weekend.