4.5 and drop brackets works great. Anything over 4.5 and you should get the long arms.

Do those drop brackets today! Right now, call in sick, send the kids to
Grandmas! I have a 99 XJ, 4.5 RE lift with drop brackets and it is the smoothest riding vehicle I have even owned. I can’t use it as a daily driver because it is too soft (putting the sway bars back on might help). Off-road it has great flex…

Pointless until the FIA comes up with a new racing series where the engine has to last 500,000 km (310,686 miles, but it’s FIA so it’s in km).

When going on off-road trips we always bring tools and spares, but sometimes you have to get creative. I was once riding in my Dad’s YJ on some trails in Southern California. As we were leaving the trail we noticed some smoke and smelled burning oil. We found that the oil cap had somehow come off the valve cover…

1st Gear: My wife let her Rav4 sit for almost a year waiting for her replacement airbags to arrive at the dealership. We still drove it once a week to keep it running, but didn’t really use it. Once the recall was done for the drivers airbag we got a letter for the passenger side. That wait wasn’t nearly as long. …

The old I6 actually weighs more than modern V8s, but I do agree that a V8 is not needed in a Wrangler, just bring back the I6, or get the optional diesel.

Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

You need a friend with a shop or garage.

You can burn Hydrogen in an ICE. Hard to find a place to buy it though.

If Trump repeals the chicken tax.

A vehicle with the engine in front is a front-mid (I actually use mid-front) if the entire engine is behind the centerline of the front axle, but in front of the centerline of the vehicle.

You just explained my situation almost perfectly. My Jetta TDI was a great daily driver, but I accepted the buy back offer and am now driving the Suburban. Not because it was a great (or even good) replacement, but because it is what we had and I don’t find any new sedan worth spending the money on. In a couple of…

It’s even more of a triple 7, like having a volume knob that goes to 11.

Your grandchildren (great-great grandchildren in Southern California) might someday enjoy this world class mass transit system, but it won’t happen for you or me. But in the short term (your children) we might have autonomous vehicles that can do all things that mass transit currently cannot, and fill the gaps while…

Chrysler 200 Limited. I test drove one. I want that 20 minutes of my life back.

At 45k miles that 4.0 is barely broken in. If there is no rust, you got a vehicle that will last another 200k miles and 20 more years. In my opinion, if there is nothing wrong after an inspection, it is worth $8,000. Throw a cheap lift and LED light bar on it and sell it for $12,000 in California. Yes, people sell…

I am glad I am not the only one that saw that. 30 knots per hour is about 34.53 mph per hour. Gotta go put my PIN number in the ATM machine.

I think that violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” part of the 8th amendment.

I once ran out of fuel in my GTI. After that day, if the tank got below 1/4th the fuel pump would start to hum. At about 1/8th of a tank it would stop. If you waited about 20 minutes for it it cool off you could drive another 5 minutes before it shut off again. If I ever heard that hum (like while ffwd on a tape…

My 2010 Jetta TDI was tested and met the standards. It did not come with a urea injection system. It met the standards by using defeat devices, but it was able to meet the standards. So too were all VW diesel engines. They all met the standards. They all cheated to meet the standards, but when they were tested…