Sir Sam

I agree better than the steelies, but those steelies don't look bad when painted with fresh silver. And I tell you this, the stock steelies look a helluva lot better than those damm soft 8s /cragars everyone is always putting on. IMO those look about 1000x times worse than a stock steel silver wheel. No kidding. I saw a lifted XJ SE with the base steel rims that came on those. Probably had 31's or 32's on it and I thought that combo looked great...very utilitarian. Ya I like utilitarian looking wheels, but those cragars just look terrible to me. I had a white 00 SE about 3 years ago that I flipped, It had those base steel wheels, they were ugly as hell when I first got it, but I sprayed them with some rattle ran silver and then repainted the hubcaps black, clean it up very nicely, by the time I repainted the fender flares black and did the end caps and bumpers in black it looked really sharp for being a base model. For the record, even though we both know the wheels we are talking about, I am referring to these: And these are the regular base model wheels, which I think look nice with a fresh coat of paint: Of course all of that and more is available in the Jeep Wheels Guide located here: http://colorado4wheel.com/images/jeepwh ... index.html But I'm really starting to like the look of these charger steelies, very utilitarian looking IMO: Image Not Found Image Not Found

I think that was on craigslist some months back, has a dump bed...........anyone else remember that?

I agree better than the steelies, but those steelies don't look bad when painted with fresh silver. And I tell you this, the stock steelies look a helluva lot better than those damm soft 8s /cragars everyone is always putting on. IMO those look about 1000x times worse than a stock steel silver wheel. No not really, they had a rooftop carrier up there which cause other issues but no other signs of use up high. This is the first time I have ever seen this problem on an XJ of this vintage, I've seen it on older chryslers from back aroudn 90-95 where the paint flaked off and left the bare body, but never on anything this new.

thanks, thats what i am shooting for!!

The Patriot is sold with a 2L TDI of VW origin in europe.

The euro emissions have always lagged US emissions, meaning you could meet euro standards with a manual but not US. Hence the lack of the manual trans here. Don't get me wrong, I prefer a manual for a DD Jeep, but when it comes time to wheel I prefer an auto.

I think thats even less realistic than hoping for a diesel. It is much easier to meet various emissions criteria with an auto than a manual. Heck even some of the new BMW diesel are only available with an auto in europe. Also, look at the KK manual tranny discountinued in 08, now days you can get a manual in is the JK, and even those are getting rarer and rarer, and I doubt the compass and patriot have very many manual trannies, but who cares about those. I wish we could see a breakdown of auto vs manual build by year. Because I'm pretty sure it would show a huge decrease in manual tranny production.

Fine by me, I love my 05 VM428, would love to have the 224/300ftlb VM428 Panther engine to play around with. Chrysler and VM have a long relationship, and the VM engines are solid units at a much better price than the Daimler diesels.

3.53/4.09 is about 14% more and generally the highest you will ever see. Refueling has never been an issue for me, there is always diesel at every town you ever goto. Even the tinyest little podunk towns always have diesel. Sure not as many stations have diesel but there are so many gas stations everywhere that its not like you have to travel any further from home to get diesel. As you will see above I calculated a corrected US market price based on the Aus diesel price. At that price point its a reasonable figure, if they decided not to mark it way way up.

WK2 CRDs are now shipping in Europe and AUS. Happy new owners are taking delivery. 237 hp/410 ft-lbs (thats more torque than a 95 dodge ram with the cummins) 28 US MPG on the "combined" cycle 23 US MPG on the "urban" cycle (city) 33 US MPG on the "extra" urban (highway) mk17TAlo_oc

painted a set of wheels I will put on it with new(er) tires, found a paint chip that matched my silverstars paint dead on, I went the cheaper route on paint and it doesn't match like the more expensive diamont likely would have. In any case, it's still a pretty good wheel paint choice, it looks awesome in the sun.

Why wouldn't you want to curse?

Don’t come Hanging around my door I don’t want to see your face No more I got more important Things to do Then spend my time Growing old with you.......

Spent some time today and I think I got the brakes all sorted out, will do a final adjustment on the rear drums tomorrow and then move onto the cooling system. I don't understand how people let stuff get this bad:

I tend to put sailors to shame when I work in the garage, I'm pretty sure if anyone walks by the house when I am working it sounds like a constant stream of swearing. I'm pretty sure I have invented some new words that shouldn't be said in polite company too.

Jeesh, what caused that Sam? Acid rain? Man I still dunno what caused that. and I don't know why its only on the roof and not anywhere else. My only thought is that stuff from a tree landed on it, and the rest of the vehicle got washed but that stuff didn't get cleaned off the roof. I'm not sure what else to think, its pretty odd.

wow that looks like @$$

Uh, so you got those ladies on East Colfax huh? :ack:

It's a colorado fridge.

OD green with a white star on it would be better.

yeah well I just got fined about 10k so my savings just went to -2800$ Ya I hear ya, I was just commenting on us talking about it last night and save for a few hours difference in posting time things might be different. In any case good luck with the sale, if through some alignment of the stars you still have it when I sell this XJ then perhaps I can buy it. Care to share the gas line story?