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If I was running Jeep, I'd raise the price by 20% and cut the quality of the parts by 10% and just have half time QC people at the plant. This is because Jeep customers will always come back and it's a lifestyle thing. People deserve to pay more of a premium and in the end, live with less...

We had a customer with a 2008 Saturn (the one that's a rebadged Pontiac G6 and whatever else GM badged it as). Someone hit her in the front and it blew the airbags. She told us that something was really odd. The passenger side just had a bunch of green powdery gas that came out from under the...

I have a method of hammering back steel wheels. First, take the tire off. Second, have the bent part on the top side of the tire changer. Third, get a brass hammer and then a thor like hammer. Use the brass one to beat on with the thor hammer. Move it around and I can get them pretty close...

These have been on there a while. They work fine. Note, I mounted and balanced them myself (even with black weights only in the center and inner rim). In three years, they still don’t vibrate (I’m anal on balancing). I also ditched the OEM lug nuts with just black ones. I hate swelled nuts (make...

Mine puked out the coolant with those two loose bolts. For the refill, I just slowly poured in the coolant and squeezed the upper rad hose a few times. Then overfilled it a bit and threw on the cap. Went to work (which was a repair shop and we have a vacuum bleeder). I never used a vacuum...

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Nissan kept them on whatever V6 they used in their SUV's around 2001. It's like a shock when you open the hood on one of those rust buckets today.

You don't need a vacuum bleeder. They are nice and work great on power steering systems too, but in the Jeep, it fills easily. Mine puked out most of the coolant in my driveway because of those loose bolts. I tightened them up and then filled it. Did the trick of squeezing the upper hose a bit...

If this is an issue, start a new thread on the raw data from the water temp vs what the temp gauge indicates. You might as well include this for everything made in the last 30 years too.

For the Jeep, park it uphill and the fuel level goes up. So that shows the float in the tank faces the rear. Thus Jeep might have figured out that the Wrangler is made for off roading (which we all do) and that the angles it will be seeing when we are all out in Moab and thinking we are going to...

In racing we just use a fuel counter. This is because the fuel level sender in the tank is useless when on track. So you can thank racing by taking that fuel counter (which uses the fuel pressure and then the pulse width of the injectors to calculate the fuel useage). Once you know the fuel...

When I think critically, I research it myself. I come from the world of motorsports. In endurance racing, we need to be exact on fuel capacity. Most common thing to do is this, fill the tank to the brim. Then jumper the fuel pump relay (most of the time we have a bypass switch). Then pump the...

Yes it does. I suggest everyone go take a 20 year old car from the junkyard, pull the tank, remove the pump and see what is looks like. I've seen cars that are garbage that come in of that age and it needs a fuel pump. Pull the pump, tank is pristine. Only ones I have found that have garbage in...

I bring this up on many things. If it was such a problem, it would be a sticky. Yet it is not. Statistics tells us there will be ones that will grenade themselves earlier on as opposed to the rest.

It's better to just live in the past. My 1983 VW GTI had a whopping 90hp. My 2017 VW Alltrack has 170. I remember when working on things like a Porsche 911S ('73) that had a whopping 180hp. That seemed like a lot. Then all of those old bug iron block V8's that people used in duallys to haul 48'...

There is no such thing as reserve. It's whatever Jeep programmed at the factory to determine when you pretty much need to get gas. Just pull the tank out of a Jeep and pull the pump, you'll see. No mystery about it. Coming from the world of racing, we actually have a reserve on some cars. This...

I don't use those fuel treatments. Instead, I put a bunch of magnets around my fuel lines, a thing I plug into my lighter to clean the electrical system and finally, some sort of thing in my intake which shows on the old infomercials, I'd get better gas mileage. With all of that, I get like 80...

I'm wondering by what you mean by smoothness? Your Jeep will detect if it's misfiring and throw the check engine light. It's calculated by each impulse that is detected by the speed of the crankshaft. So when it misfires or not firing completely, the crank is slightly slower on that pulse. They...

It works fine. I take my younger son and his friend skiing and I think for three, it handles it. As for the bike rack, I've hauled three on the back and usually when I'm flat towing it with my RV. I can't complain. It's versatile and does what it needs to do. That's all I ask out of it.

I'm glad I keep a spare for each seat in the center console. That Leatherman in the glovebox will help me snap them off when they break.