Changes from chip shortages

[Wbino]

Engine covers.
My April 2021 JLU has one.

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[NewJLU2019]

That never worked on my Feb ‘21 build, unless I have a separate issue. App shows available on the screen but changes to grayed out and unavailable when trying to use.

You might know this but each time you use it you have to go in and check the box before icon lights up to use. It's one of every time you have to check box to move forward. Just checking.

 

[TheRaven]

Nope. The Wrangler interior actually uses very high quality plastics, knobs, etc. It may be designed to look “rugged,” but it’s a beautifully made interior. A far cry from the first JK interior.

Uh...no...not at all. I mean, don't get me wrong, they did a great job on STYLING the Wrangler interior...but the materials are about as far from "high quality" as you can get. Case in point - open and close the glove box on a 2020 Silverado, who's interior looks cheap in comparison, and then on a 2020 Wrangler. The feel is night and day. The Wrangler's glove box feels like it might fall apart if you're not careful. There are several pieces on mine that actually do fall apart - the driver's knee panel pops out sometimes when we hit a big enough bump, and every time you open the passenger visor, the mirror assembly falls out and dangles by its cord.

That said, switchgear is not bad in the Wrangler. I've seen GM models and Toyotas that have much worse (but also much better). It's really kind of a mixed bag overall...but I would not say "high quality" is a fitting description.

FCA does do "pretty" very well...but quality not so much.

 

[John VonJeep]

Uh...no...not at all. I mean, don't get me wrong, they did a great job on STYLING the Wrangler interior...but the materials are about as far from "high quality" as you can get. Case in point - open and close the glove box on a 2020 Silverado, who's interior looks cheap in comparison, and then on a 2020 Wrangler. The feel is night and day. The Wrangler's glove box feels like it might fall apart if you're not careful. There are several pieces on mine that actually do fall apart - the driver's knee panel pops out sometimes when we hit a big enough bump, and every time you open the passenger visor, the mirror assembly falls out and dangles by its cord.

That said, switchgear is not bad in the Wrangler. I've seen GM models and Toyotas that have much worse (but also much better). It's really kind of a mixed bag overall...but I would not say "high quality" is a fitting description.

FCA does do "pretty" very well...but quality not so much.

We’ll have to agree to disagree. We have recently owned Toyotas and Hondas and the JL’s interior materials are nicer than either. Mazda is better than any of them, but the plastics Jeep uses are great. Have you been in a 4Runner lately? We all know the design is old, but the material quality sucks too. Scratches easily. Dust magnet.Just horrible.

 

[TheRaven]

We’ll have to agree to disagree. We have recently owned Toyotas and Hondas and the JL’s interior materials are nicer than either. Mazda is better than any of them, but the plastics Jeep uses are great. Have you been in a 4Runner lately? We all know the design is old, but the material quality sucks too. Scratches easily. Dust magnet.Just horrible.

Well you can certainly pick out vehicles from pretty much any automaker that are sub-par...especially older designs. I'm just talking about the Wrangler vs the spectrum of quality found in modern interiors.

I also find that the phenomenon of "perceived quality" is fascinating. It's amazing what some faux-brushed aluminum and fake-stitched vinyl can do to make the average buyer think an otherwise low-grade dashboard assembly is "high quality". There is a big difference between how nice something looks and how well made it is. This was a rampant thing back in the 00's when people used to crap on American automakers for their "low quality" interiors. The only difference (in the cases where there WAS an actual difference) was that Honda/Toyota were rubber/vinyl coating their cheap plastics and GM/Ford were just embossing patterns into their cheap plastics. GM caught on to the trick mid-decade and immediately starting getting big praise for "much better interior quality". They didn't change their material quality at all...they just "painted it". Unbelievable.

 

[stingGreyNJ]

It works on my '21 but I never use it. It's just laggy enough to make a tire gauge much faster and easier to use.

I was wondering if the polling interval was updated to make this useful. (I guess its a "no".) I have an '18 and I've had people sitting in driver seat telling me when to stop and it wasn't that useful, although that was a big fast compressor at an off raod park. The Tazer JL adds the feature with light marking at each corner but again, even with a somewhat slow Viair the polling interval was too slow to be truly useful vs just using a gauge.

 

[Reinen]

I was wondering if the polling interval was updated to make this useful. (I guess its a "no".) I have an '18 and I've had people sitting in driver seat telling me when to stop and it wasn't that useful, although that was a big fast compressor at an off raod park. The Tazer JL adds the feature with light marking at each corner but again, even with a somewhat slow Viair the polling interval was too slow to be truly useful vs just using a gauge.

Exactly. I use a Viair and even with that slower fill rate it usually tells me to stop 1-2 PSI past the mark. So I have to check it with a gauge anyway. I see TPMS as a tool to alert me to slow leaks and not much more.

 

[stingGreyNJ]

Exactly. I use a Viair and even with that slower fill rate it usually tells me to stop 1-2 PSI past the mark. So I have to check it with a gauge anyway. I see TPMS as a tool to alert me to slow leaks and not much more.

Right. So I set the Tazer to a few PSI low hoping it'd work out but depending on when TPMS is polled I'm anywhere from dead on to 4 PSI high. Again, my '18 wasn't designed for this so I'm not salty. But they sold yours with this feature and it just isn't quite there. Analog FTW.

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