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Old Dec 17, 2024 | 11:17 AM
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We are officially in bizarro world. Jeep is reducing the powertrain options for the 2025 Wrangler, and they're doing so by discontinuing the V6/Automatic combination. Choices will be either V6/Manual or 2.0T/Automatic.

I'd love to think this is a good sign, but it probably just means the Pentastar and 6MT will be retired together and there will be no manual for the next-gen Wrangler (JM?) due in a few years.
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Striker223
Ah, I defaulted to looking for your current car.

However yeah I don't disagree but you actually get more for the money vs the LS not even having good factory rotors...that are smaller etc. The LS frying it's brakes often makes you wonder what actually costs more for a given amount of miles
My 560 needed rotors and pads front and rear at 30k miles thereabouts. The LS was about the same and once I replaced the rotors with Centric ones I never had any issues with warping again.

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We are officially in bizarro world. Jeep is reducing the powertrain options for the 2025 Wrangler, and they're doing so by discontinuing the V6/Automatic combination. Choices will be either V6/Manual or 2.0T/Automatic.

I'd love to think this is a good sign, but it probably just means the Pentastar and 6MT will be retired together and there will be no manual for the next-gen Wrangler (JM?) due in a few years.
That sucks! I bet you are right.
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Margate330
Looks good @bitkahuna .
Do you all think it needs a spoiler on the back?

I think this car can get away with a spoiler. 💯
not a full on fast and furious wing lol but a nice lip spoiler would compliment the design nicely

Old Dec 17, 2024 | 12:26 PM
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Still no CEL on my car, so I rescheduled the dealer appointment for Jan 6th.
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 12:45 PM
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Still no CEL on my car, so I rescheduled the dealer appointment for Jan 6th.
Maybe it'll stay off and is just one of those quirks.
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 12:49 PM
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My guess is it will, I still want them to look at it and I want them to repair my creaky seat. Plus the oil change. Happy I don't have to stress about it over the holidays.

One thing I have noticed is these engines do use coolant. I had to add coolant to the S560 a couple times, and I am getting a low coolant warning on this now too (this was from before the CEL went out:



Stopped by the dealer today and bought a bottle of coolant and rescheduled the appointment.
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Originally Posted by SW17LS
My guess is it will, I still want them to look at it and I want them to repair my creaky seat. Plus the oil change. Happy I don't have to stress about it over the holidays.

One thing I have noticed is these engines do use coolant. I had to add coolant to the S560 a couple times, and I am getting a low coolant warning on this now too (this was from before the CEL went out:



Stopped by the dealer today and bought a bottle of coolant and rescheduled the appointment.
Where is it going though lol!

Scan again and see if there is a pending code, it was probably a one time false alarm though
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by SW17LS
My guess is it will, I still want them to look at it and I want them to repair my creaky seat. Plus the oil change. Happy I don't have to stress about it over the holidays.

One thing I have noticed is these engines do use coolant. I had to add coolant to the S560 a couple times, and I am getting a low coolant warning on this now too (this was from before the CEL went out:



Stopped by the dealer today and bought a bottle of coolant and rescheduled the appointment.
Hmm. I meant to say one time YEARSSSS ago my heat wasn't working because of low coolant, I took it to Lexus and even they couldn't figure it out....they said "the coolant has to go somewhere" and the car definitely wasn't burning it. Refilled it and it solved it, this was like 11 years ago lol. Not a blip since. I guess what I'm saying is sometimes weird things that are unexplainable happen with cars.
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Where is it going though lol!

Scan again and see if there is a pending code, it was probably a one time false alarm though
I think it has to do with their caps being leaky. I replaced the cap in the 560 twice, and the cap in this has ever so slight crusty white on one spot.
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Originally Posted by SW17LS
i have almost 3,000 songs in my itunes but you're always listening to someone i've never heard of lol... when you give advice and recommendations i have to remind myself this is coming from a big country fan
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Country is the new good music in a lot of ways, I'd rather watch good country music videos than top 10 junk. And I'm not even a country music person.
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Originally Posted by AJT123
Country is the new good music in a lot of ways, I'd rather watch good country music videos than top 10 junk. And I'm not even a country music person.
do you make the distinction between country and "hick hop" stuff like luke combs? which is basically just pop with a southern drawl lol
Old Dec 17, 2024 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Stroock639
do you make the distinction between country and "hick hop" stuff like luke combs? which is basically just pop with a southern drawl lol
I don't know much, but my TV is always randomly on channels. There's MTV classic which plays videos 24/7. And I just find that when the TV's on CMT I rather like most of the music.

Other than that it's nothing but 80s some 90s an classic rock.

Old Dec 17, 2024 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Stroock639
do you make the distinction between country and "hick hop" stuff like luke combs? which is basically just pop with a southern drawl lol
Hick hop lol good one. Hadn't heard that before..I've been listening to a lot of Americana lately along with lesser known but talented country artists.
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Lol I'm going to post a country-ish song in the music thread....



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