Paluss
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Took my longest drive today in my JLUR, from my house in MD to just outside of Pittsburgh PA and back, about 420 miles total and 8 hours behind the wheel. Today was about the worst weather you want to be driving on the curvy PA turnpike, but I've been making this drive for over 25 years and know the roads pretty well. Having said that I saw at least 7 single vehicle accidents with one vehicle upside down, they all were on the straight parts of the road.
Comfort wise the JL was very comfortable, although I may consider installing a "dead pedal" for another driving position, seats were fine. HVAC works perfect no fogging at all (temp dropped to 50 degrees) set and forget at 71 degrees The JL was absolutely water tight and I felt safe and secure in the JL.
The LED headlights are great never needed the high beams and I left at 5:30 am with driving rain the whole drive. I did experience a kamakazi pigeon (I believe) came from nowhere right into the passenger side bumper, just caught a quick glance of light gray and white color and a soft thunk into the steel bumper.
Uconnect worked fine too, except CarPlay would disconnect sometimes and would not list all of the artists in my Spotify directory.
Mileage was disappointing I will contribute it to the wind and rain, I averaged about 19-20 mpg (23 mpg?) running 65-70 mph mostly, also the wind had the JL moving around in the lane a bit two hands on the wheel was needed. Grip was very good in the wet, I was a bit apprehensive at first but never felt it loosing traction. I was able to drive about 415 miles on a single tank of gas, driving until the display read "low fuel" for a while and the refill took 20 gallons (usually I refill 17-18).
I used cruise mostly and the 8 speed tranny kept it in the right gear and it went up those mountain roads well (some vehicles I had would make a big downshift mid way going up) and seemed to always be in the right gear, and keep the same speed on the steep down hill runs.
So for me I would give the JL a rating of "B" for the drive with the mileage and wandering in the lane (wind?) keeping if from getting a "B+ or A-". ODO now reads 5,800 miles and Oil life indicates 25% so time to take it in for an Oil change....
Comfort wise the JL was very comfortable, although I may consider installing a "dead pedal" for another driving position, seats were fine. HVAC works perfect no fogging at all (temp dropped to 50 degrees) set and forget at 71 degrees The JL was absolutely water tight and I felt safe and secure in the JL.
The LED headlights are great never needed the high beams and I left at 5:30 am with driving rain the whole drive. I did experience a kamakazi pigeon (I believe) came from nowhere right into the passenger side bumper, just caught a quick glance of light gray and white color and a soft thunk into the steel bumper.
Uconnect worked fine too, except CarPlay would disconnect sometimes and would not list all of the artists in my Spotify directory.
Mileage was disappointing I will contribute it to the wind and rain, I averaged about 19-20 mpg (23 mpg?) running 65-70 mph mostly, also the wind had the JL moving around in the lane a bit two hands on the wheel was needed. Grip was very good in the wet, I was a bit apprehensive at first but never felt it loosing traction. I was able to drive about 415 miles on a single tank of gas, driving until the display read "low fuel" for a while and the refill took 20 gallons (usually I refill 17-18).
I used cruise mostly and the 8 speed tranny kept it in the right gear and it went up those mountain roads well (some vehicles I had would make a big downshift mid way going up) and seemed to always be in the right gear, and keep the same speed on the steep down hill runs.
So for me I would give the JL a rating of "B" for the drive with the mileage and wandering in the lane (wind?) keeping if from getting a "B+ or A-". ODO now reads 5,800 miles and Oil life indicates 25% so time to take it in for an Oil change....
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