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I totally agree and in your situation I would buy the same car. It really is a great vehicle for commuting et cetera. The last three days I have been using it far beyond what it was intended for. Having said that however I really enjoyed driving it and the power is great so long as the battery...

Just for fun, I stopped on 14° pitch to see how she got started from a stop at that angle. In 4 high she couldn't do it, the trans just spun and spun and got up to 215° pretty quickly. In 4 low it went fine but it took a good deal of throttle. Realised esave is different from the...

Just in case anyone is interested, first tank, some city, mostly highway saw 20.6 mpg. This tank, 60% wheeling but a full charge for the first bit was 12.9 mpg. Overall about 60% of what my silverado gets.

I found I really don't like the way it drives with that regenerative braking, or esave. It's like driving a golf cart, where one almost never uses the brake. But if you let the battery get completely flat, which it does without that esave it really is fairly gutless. So I've been using that...

Spot on Mike. I used 4low far more often then I would have needed to on any other rig as it really needed that gearing to pull itself up things. With the bigger rubber on the Rubi it must really need that 4:1 low. As for the clearance: similar to a Subaru, but the skid plates are fairly smooth...

That's not good, but honestly does sound like a new Jeep thing. 🤨 Maybe I'll need to go for another Tacoma manual instead. I'm really just looking to get one semi-last new manual which I can pass on to my son in 3 years when he's driving..... but enjoy for myself until then. I'm just tired of...

I did charge it last night. The charge level dropped like a prom dress in 4wd, on the hills it dropped even faster. Within 5-ish miles (or probably less), it told me it was too low to use electric and that I needed to switch back to petrol. I will say that in the really steep climbs it was a bit...

Mind you, at full charge it'll only wheel for about 10 miles on fully electric in flat dirt or snow......

I agree. Truly, other than the niftieness of cruising through the woods in silence, I like my combustion engines......

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I have to say that despite myself I really enjoyed the 4xe wrangler. It's the first automatic I've ever taken 4 wheeling and I have to say that that part of it really bored me to tears and takes out a whole element of challenge and fun from four wheeling. But the wrangler itself was incredibly...

I've done the Rubicon in my FJ40 20 years ago, but I'm not taking a stock wrangler on it sadly. Thank you for that link.

Hi guys. We're in Truckee, Ca for 2.5 weeks and I rented a wrangler. I'd like to find a few day trails near by. I was hoping George or someone with local knowledge might know of a few. Looking at Boca Hill or Hell Hole. Thoughts? Anything better? Do I need to buy some kind of permit to...

Completely germane. You mentioned it in the second paragraph of your introduction, thus making it totally fair game here amongst Scrambler addicted nutjobs like ourselves. Moreover, by mentioning it where you did, it obviously played a role in your present quest: thus I'd go so far as to say...

Welcome. Sounds like a great build other than only having only two pedals😉. The 53 year old version of me totally understands your motivation for the Jeep build. This forum is a great resource for these rigs; present company excluded. We have guys on here who know more about them than AMC even...

I second John N: that's the best packing job I've ever seen...... brilliant.

I wondered if this could be the 7 to which you were referring; the timing seemed uncanny. Sweet score! Glad it's gone to a great home. Had to chuckle at the story of the driver.... sounds like the same fellow who took my last FJ40 to Connecticut... ..

I like that it has its own guest room and it's own bed......

Now that's class: park your 8 in the perfect spot and then build a pole barn around it. Love your work.

I feel your pain: I replaced/ rebuilt everything on my 8 after buying a pig in a poke in 2016. The engine was the only thing I didn't rebuild (although I replaced all the seals and gaskets due to weeping and the water pump, alternator and power steering pump). The seller, who was obviously a...