Traded in my Commander

[redrockv8]

Well it's 3 months and 5,200 miles later and I'm really loving this Grand Cherokee. Drove from St.Louis to Destin,Florida and averaged 23.5MPG's. (this is from the on board computer. I didn't do the math as MPG's is not a reason to buy a Jeep so the actual figure is not that important to me.) Close to 5MPG's more than I was getting in the Commander. I really like the 8 speed transmission and the hemi engine is much more powerful than my 4.7. The 8.4" nav screen is really cool and love the blue tooth and the ability to talk to the Jeep to get it to change from satellite radio to media to making phone calls. Haven't taken it off road yet except to test the sand mode for a short distance East of Pensacola. Beach. Worked great.

I do miss this forum as most of the posters here seem to be mature and very little flaming or insulting one another. On The other jeep forum they are constantly fighting over who has the V6 and who has the V8and which one is better. They really get nasty about it. In 3 years on this forum and 2 years on the other Commander forum I've never seen that except for a few times mostly in a tongue in cheek or friendly way.
Apparently not everyone knows that "hemi" is a trademark name. Chrysler does not claim it is a true hemi. Also there is no P-51 under the hood of a Mustang nor is there a live coyote under the Ford. No trees in the Forrester either.
So far my only issue has been moisture in one of the rear reflectors. I'm having it replaced under waranty tomorrow.

[Matt]

Glad to hear you're liking the WK2! I actually saw one offroading at Rausch Creek yesterday.... was cool to see a stock WK2 hanging around some built wranglers. My friend also borrowed his dads WK2 for our OBX trip last year and the thing handled the sugar sand great (and he was able to skip most of the gas stations I had to stop at!!)

10-4 on the forum thing. That's the main reason I'm basically here or nowhere. Just because you don't have an WK/XK doesn't mean you're not allowed to hang around here anymore. Feel free to post up whatever you have going on

[indymtb]

1) Sounds like a nice rig. I was a little bummed when they made QDII without the ELSD in the front.

2) Mine is a 2010 XK at 48K. I am hoping for another 100K. The other place where XKs communicate is starting to get tumbleweeds blowing across the screen. I hope more people start buying the sold ones. The rig has lots of space and I love the hemi.

3) I am curious if you can put a 2" spacer lift in it like the commander.