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10-07-2007, 09:58 PM
Guys,
I pulled the trigger this weekend. I appreciate the info I learned here ahead of time. I purchased from Long Beach Jeep out here in socal. They gave me the same price Don@Champion is offering for his new 08s on the forum with msrp of 47180.
These are my observations after 24 hours of ownership.
1. Fit and Finish is horrible on certain areas of the vehicle. You will see in my first photo that the tailpipes are horribly misaligned. I get a rattle from the rear and after inspecting the rear of the vehicle I found that some of the plastic in the rear wheel well is not even connected properly. I mean it is flat out missing fastners and has some fastners that you can pull out with no effort. Inside the verhicle the speakers covers on the top of the dash look they they were installed by a 12 year old. Do the workers that put these together even care anymore? Really depressing.
The one area of the vehicle that looks tight is the engine compartment.
2. Love the sound of the engine. I get a big smile every time I fire it up. That is the great thing about the remote start. You get to hear your car startup from the outside. Totaly *****in.
3. The technology in the vehicle will take me months to figure out. It will be the gift that keeps on giving. BTW, how accurate is the high beam sensing system? Does it really sense oncoming vehicles and drop you back to normal beams?
4. All that technology and no retractible side view mirrors? WTF?
5. I crawled under the thing and it was noce to see all the performance parts. Brembos, Dana, etc...
6. Specific to 08s. I love dark interior.
7. I noticed that it is really difficult to fit your hand between the seat and door to reach the seat adjustments.
I really love the srt vehicles. I think DC or whatever you call it these days got a bunch of things right with the one. I told my brother I was going to get one and he was like, why don't you buy a z06 that is a couple years old for that kind of money? Because I love that fact that this is such a unique vehicle. I don't want to be like every other JO out there with a corvette or a mustang.
I feel like I am at the begining of a long difficult relationship. There will be good times (a porsche kill) and there will be bad times ( @ the stealership service center), but the bottom line is that it will be exciting.
In parting I have a question for the forum. I think I am going to get the 7/70 extended warrany. I can just see the entire nav system going in 3.5 years. How much should I expect to pay?
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/DSC01729a.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep003d.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep005f.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep001b.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep002c.jpg
I pulled the trigger this weekend. I appreciate the info I learned here ahead of time. I purchased from Long Beach Jeep out here in socal. They gave me the same price Don@Champion is offering for his new 08s on the forum with msrp of 47180.
These are my observations after 24 hours of ownership.
1. Fit and Finish is horrible on certain areas of the vehicle. You will see in my first photo that the tailpipes are horribly misaligned. I get a rattle from the rear and after inspecting the rear of the vehicle I found that some of the plastic in the rear wheel well is not even connected properly. I mean it is flat out missing fastners and has some fastners that you can pull out with no effort. Inside the verhicle the speakers covers on the top of the dash look they they were installed by a 12 year old. Do the workers that put these together even care anymore? Really depressing.
The one area of the vehicle that looks tight is the engine compartment.
2. Love the sound of the engine. I get a big smile every time I fire it up. That is the great thing about the remote start. You get to hear your car startup from the outside. Totaly *****in.
3. The technology in the vehicle will take me months to figure out. It will be the gift that keeps on giving. BTW, how accurate is the high beam sensing system? Does it really sense oncoming vehicles and drop you back to normal beams?
4. All that technology and no retractible side view mirrors? WTF?
5. I crawled under the thing and it was noce to see all the performance parts. Brembos, Dana, etc...
6. Specific to 08s. I love dark interior.
7. I noticed that it is really difficult to fit your hand between the seat and door to reach the seat adjustments.
I really love the srt vehicles. I think DC or whatever you call it these days got a bunch of things right with the one. I told my brother I was going to get one and he was like, why don't you buy a z06 that is a couple years old for that kind of money? Because I love that fact that this is such a unique vehicle. I don't want to be like every other JO out there with a corvette or a mustang.
I feel like I am at the begining of a long difficult relationship. There will be good times (a porsche kill) and there will be bad times ( @ the stealership service center), but the bottom line is that it will be exciting.
In parting I have a question for the forum. I think I am going to get the 7/70 extended warrany. I can just see the entire nav system going in 3.5 years. How much should I expect to pay?
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/DSC01729a.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep003d.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep005f.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep001b.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x224/rwinter17/jeep002c.jpg