Like a few have commented (albeit wo/ examples) many hoods these days are lightweight aluminum. Jeep uses only a single gas strut on the Grand Cherokee hood.
It’s a good thing you can’t contract a virus while driving, as far as we know.
You get a star for saying crotchal, well played my friend.
This is crazy and the only concept that makes sense to to me is, this would be an intake manifold, mounted to one of the ends of a v6 engine. The 3 ‘trumpets’ cearly look like carb mounts and the 6 rectangular ports are aligned in a very wide V but still a V. Imagine this bolting to horizontal runners in the end…
We use a 2 minute sand timer for teeth brushing for our young children.
We use a 2 minute sand timer for teeth brushing for our young children.
I like it...but fun fact, petroleum is thought to have come from ocean plants and animals before our dino friends cruised the globe
We purchased the grand cherokee in fall of 2013 as a MY14.... certainly not a new thing they’re doing. My guess is Jeep jumped the gun on the design and should have spent more time in development. In addition to the filler nozzle being stupid at times, the fuel door hinge broke prematurely, had to get the whole door…
My thought is that whatever seals could fail on traditional style caps, are likely to fail on a capless system. Don’t kid yourself, there are still seals involved. Hopefully they’re more robust but they’re still there....you can’t just hope and pray for fuel vapors to stay put, without a comprehensive system in place.…
The ten seconds savings is drastically off-set by the pumps regularly (a few times throughout a fill-up) cutting off.
Fair enough, the concept is sound. I think the execution of the concept is what's lacking on our Jeep. It seems more often than not, the regular pumps we fill from don't stay engaged, even with a tilt or rotate trick. We have consistent trouble that appears to be a design fault.
I’ve found the same technique helps our capless Jeep....stupid design, capless....what the hell is wrong with a damn fuel cap.
1) fuel specialist
We had a 95 2WD variant w/ the 4.3 and it was the crappiest SUV ever owned. The plastic A/C evaporator housing crumbled like it was made of parmesan cheese at 75k miles. The door frames would pull away from the roof line above 55 and whistle. It handled like garbage. My girlfriend’s base 98 Grand Cherokee Lerado,…
I believe you are correct but I haven’t sat in a 2016+. My father-in-law’s 15 has the same stupid shifter as our 14. I’m pretty surprised someone hasn’t come up with a retrofit kit for this bad shifter to utilize the upgraded 16+ shifter, must not be much of a market or I haven’t found it.
Having owned nearly all; 1998 ZJ (I6), 2000 WJ(V8) and a 2014 Wk2(V8), I wholeheartedly agree. My dad had a 2007 Wk, that interior was terrible but the shifter was so much better than the stupid electronic shifter in the ‘14.
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Had an ‘84 Elco with a swapped 350 after dumping the tired 305.
Did you really need to come and comment your dislike of the article?