The Automotive Thread

[jeb6294]

so having a 6th gear is new to me, almost sent me back over a cliff this weekend (like one at 10K feet) when I thought I was in reverse, whats up with this? its only a V6 engine?  never had more than a 5 speed before...

will take some getting used to!

I think that's the new standard...when you can even find something that still has a stick.  I remember when the standard used to be 4-speed and 5-speeds were the oddity.  If that's in a Jeep, is "1st" gear even supposed to be used in normal driving or is it an offroad granny gear?  When I was looking at trucks, some of the F350's would have 6-speeds in them, but on the shifter "1st" was actually labeled "L" and 6 was "OD" so for towing you'd use L-to-5 and for daily driving it'd be 2-to-OD.

 

[Road Guy]

yep, cant believe I actually pondered buying a F'n Subaru!

I am so used to reverse being where the 6th gear is, I just have to retrain myself to shift WAY over to the right!

The boy is driving the Tahoe to school and is doing well so far, were keeping him on a short leash, but its nice so far, been making him run a lot of errands..

CO has some cool military veteran license plates, was going to get some for the new jeep until I noticed I had to pay an extra $50 bucks for them?  Most places give veterans, you know, a discount and all..

 

[Road Guy]

Jeb- so far 2nd gear doesn't do so well from a dead stop like my old jeep used to (94)  but it does work (but slow)  admit I haven't read the owners manual yet though..

sort of glad to have a stick just to be able to teach my kids how to drive one

 

[Road Guy]

I will be stuck with the "Stock" look for a while, but so far happy

 

[jeb6294]

I'm sure part of it is the fact that the new V-6's aren't nearly as torquey as the old I-6's.  Probably just threw a 6-speed in them to get a better OD gear in there to help the fuel mileage look a little better.

 

[MA_PE]

Good lookin jeep.

I guess vanity plates are vanity plates and you pay extra for them.

I can honestly say I wouldn't want a manual for my DD.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

RG in 6 months:

 

[Road Guy]

Im trying to resist reading the quadratec catalog!

Is there a way to get $10k out of my 401k without getting 1099'd? Lol

 

[FLBuff PE]

To drag up an old argument, what shape are the headlights?

 

[snickerd3]

RG in 6 months:

why did you change the picture?  the other one was cooler

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

why did you change the picture?  the other one was cooler

It wasn't silver.

But for posterity:

 

[jeb6294]

I will be stuck with the "Stock" look for a while, but so far happy

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Did it come with a little stick figure family to put on the back window?  You'd have to check but I thought I'd heard that you can actually get 33's on them without a lift.  That and trimming the little lip off the flares to give it that flat fender look does wonders.  At least you didn't buy into their hype and get a Rubicon...you can build one better for less $$$.

 

[Road Guy]

Damn...

No need for a dana 44 unless your doing tons of rock crawling.

Even at stock ive got almost 12" of ground clearance, which will get me by for a while..

I don't like to buy ones already lifted as there are lots of people out there that don't do it right, easier for me to start with a clean slate and build from there.

But as much driving as i do I'm not going to add a lift for a year or so, i dont have a small penis so I'm

Not too worried about it...

 

[csb]

:GotPics:

 

[Road Guy]

check your pm's

 

[knight1fox3]

:GotPics:

Haha!  You got Brett Favre'd!

 

[Ble_PE]

^Something tells me she won't be too upset about it...

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Did someone say Brett Farve?

 

[knight1fox3]

This popped up on my ebay spam email:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/172069510137

 

[Supe]

Do it.