Interesting, our 2013 Equinox has been fantastic. 65,000 miles and other than one little buzz i can’t trace in the driver side A-pillar on rough pavement it’s been dead nuts. SheWhoMustBeObeyed does home health and I’m still on the original Michelin Latitudes (albeit due for replacement soon). And this coming from…

This. Exactly this.

Funny, as a Lexus service advisor these days and a guy that raced Camaro’s in GrandAm and WorldChallenge.........LAWL!

Now you know what it feel like to be a Texan. Every. Damn. Day. ;-)

+1 on welding the diff. My first thought

Air/Liquid integrated into an evaporator for the a/c. mad chill yo

fixxed

Flipping a Porsche transaxle over “upside down” has been done may times over, I see references online for a specific casting that was done this way at one point or another. Reverses the rotation of the drive axles so you can still have 5 forward gears and not 5 reverses.

indeed.

Don’t be a pleb, hand tools are for the un-initiated. especially wrenches of the non-ratcheting variety. You’re not a whiz-bang wrench until you’ve got a cordless everything. I particularly prefer this unit from Makita. Will go multiple days on a single battery and be careful, it’ll hit about 75 lbft if you really…

diesel doesn’t need a 8 speed. turbo motors work off torque in a narrow rpm band, can’t build boost if you’re shifting constantly

great, now my 2016 Canyon is jealous. 8,000 miles on it in 6 months. Been up to 11,600 feet and about 500 offroad miles.

Livernois, Trifecta, Black Bear, ..... they’re out there.

There’s not enough clearance behind the wheel to clear anything bigger. With aftermarket arms and spindles you could shift the wheelbase forward and clearance from the bumper, but without a major re-design of the suspension us 6 footers have to have our legroom somewhere. The driver’s footbox is in the way

you’re not actually comparing a (nearly) $100k car to a Chevy truck are you?

I put 265/70-17 grabber at/2 on mine with a 1.25" leveling kit and get no rub whatsoever even in offroad conditions. (still running oem sway bar).

And once you get tired of going slow with crappy suspension:

Eh, I drive a 2016 Canyon All-terrain, a 95 4runner with 4.0 v8 swap, and write service at a Lexus dealer.

I love Jeeps for what they are. They’re just not exactly known for their product reliability. I mean that one shifter killed Chekov.