I rode with no front plate for a while, eventually got pulled over. Fortunately Jeep provides a handy dandy zip tie plate area.

I agree so much with everything here that I had to say so. I used this bracket on my wife’s and my brother’s GTI...s... When I buy them the dealer knows I win’t drive anything home that has holes in the front bumper. I like it so much I rigged up something similar for the Jeep which, conveniently, has no front plate…

Wow, it’s like I’ve been punched in the face with glorious 80's nostalgia. Like getting bludgeoned with a rolled up wall poster.

Imagine how glorious this will be when my roof and doors are at home in the garage! I take solace in the fact that the sun shade will keep my flailing body loosely contained within the rapidly folding steel shell. It’S a JeEp ThInG

Confirmed, it’s always “the Jeep”.

This is the boat I’m in as well. I was shopping before and only didn’t pull the trigger on an order because I couldn’t decide on a color. I’m sure they’d rather let the car sit on the lot all summer than take too much of a hit on it, but I can’t help but think a fun, relatively inexpensive car isn’t going to be in…

Wait, what about a new car? What about a new car that no one really NEEDS (like a 2020 miata club with the brembo/recaro package). It seems to me that this isn’t an “essential” vehicle and with people all sheltering at home, would this be a good time to buy one? 

So is this a good time to be shopping or what? I was planning on a Miata this year and I found one spec’d right on a lot a few hours away. Should I call? Let it sit there for a month? Stop worrying about buying an expensive toy while sheltering at home?

I have two of the Lev-o-gages in my garage waiting for me to find some free time to find a spot for them in the Jeep. I saw them in an FJ somewhere and thought it might be really nice to know roll and pitch angles. Off camber stuff really sketches me out and putting numbers to the tilt might help alleviate some of the…

Another satisfied customer! I’ll tell you what, at this rate we’ll have to start charging admission

Thanks for taking the time to reply! It’s feedback like yours that makes it all worthwhile. I look forward to continuing to provide you, personally, with my deep and complex insights.

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My wrangler does this at some stations. Always the same stations, reliably. Two attendants (oh, New Jersey) at different stations have told me this is common with JKs and they both had the same fix. They turn the whole handle/nozzle upside down and balance it with the hose sticking up in the air. Works perfectly every…

Haha!! I can appreciate that but I fall into the obsessively straight tassel camp myself. I’d probably do the same if I had the GTI daily. As it is I can’t bring myself to put the volume on an odd number in the Jeep and the air vents always have to be clocked symmetrically. Oh my god that seems crazy when I type it…

My wife refuses to use the volume knob in her GTI for this exact reason. I’m with you though, it’s the principal and I rage every time I change the volume. If Ford can get it right in an F150, how are VW and BMW lagging behind?

Here it is, a well packed JK trunk...

I decidedly did NOT grow up with my parents wrenching. We did some other projects but I had to learn on my own that I was into cars and bikes. It’s funny though, my dad recently picked up an ‘04 Grand Cherokee as part of his plan to move down by the shore (and drive and fish on the beach). The truck needed the…

I ordered my new work truck with the 7.3. I follow the ‘never be the guniea pig’ rule but it was time for a truck and I was feeling reckless. I drove the Tremor package F250 with it and, while I didn’t wring it out, it had some grunt. I was thrilled with the 3.5 ecoboost in an F150 and satisfies with the 2.7 so this…

Damn right I’m pissy, the Gladiator sucks

You’re probably right. Function in an off-road oriented pickup is irrelevant. $40k is super expensive for a 2020 pickup. The market is probably just softening.