Trying to test drive a Jeep Recon…

[Scout_Lookout]

If they give owners the option to load our own sound clips a let us set them the way we want, they would shame the whole industry.

Don't throw stones , but I could do this in my 2022 Tesla Model 3. Well the lock sounds at least, the pedestrian speaker and horn are Gov locked I think.

 

[Broverlander]

Agreed!

As long as that is a configuration choice, and I can get a different noise...

The last thing I want is for my pure BEV Terra to sound like is an overcompensating gas-guzzzling V-8.

I'm getting a Scout Traveler with 35" tires and winch (if available at launch) despite living in a city (admittedly, St. Paul's streets are sometimes worse than off-road trails). I'm clearly already overcompensating for something so I might as well go all in. Never do anything half way!

 

[Broverlander]

Don't throw stones , but I could do this in my 2022 Tesla Model 3. Well the lock sounds at least, the pedestrian speaker and horn are Gov locked I think.

Booo! I had hopes for the horn.

 

[Scout_Lookout]

I'm getting a Scout Traveler with 35" tires and winch (if available at launch) despite living in a city (admittedly, St. Paul's streets are sometimes worse than off-road trails). I'm clearly already overcompensating for something so I might as well go all in. Never do anything half way!

Same for the most part, however, I'm counting on having the winch to inspire me to act even more like an hooligan offroad than I do now. Right now I see that mud hole and know it will sink my truck so I'll take the chicken route. With my Scout I'm going WOT into it

 

[maynard]

I'm getting a Scout Traveler with 35" tires and winch (if available at launch) despite living in a city (admittedly, St. Paul's streets are sometimes worse than off-road trails). I'm clearly already overcompensating for something so I might as well go all in. Never do anything half way!

I don't call it overcompensating - I call it expressing my 70's Matchbox Scout inner-self!

 

[J Alynn]

I don't call it overcompensating - I call it expressing my 70's Matchbox Scout inner-self!

Be the person you want others to see. You go matchbox man!

 

[BeerParty]

I'm getting a Scout Traveler with 35" tires and winch (if available at launch) despite living in a city (admittedly, St. Paul's streets are sometimes worse than off-road trails). I'm clearly already overcompensating for something so I might as well go all in. Never do anything half way!

"You have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing." - Austin Kleon

I would say that quote applies to vehicles as much as clothes.

 

[J Alynn]

"You have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing." - Austin Kleon

I would say that quote applies to vehicles as much as clothes.

Had a realtor years ago I worked with and that was her mindset. I drive a big Mercedes so people see I’m successful and success means I sell houses and isn’t that why they are hiring me? Made sense even though it just made me realize how much they make for sometimes very little work-kinda like car dealers

 

[Broverlander]

Be the person you want others to see. You go matchbox man!

Me to my wife when trying to justify a winch: "I need it to help pull people out of the ditch during the winter. Think of the children!"

Me while driving to work in the winter and seeing someone in the ditch: "I'm sure they've already called for help and would be embarrassed if I stopped. Also, it's dangerous for me to stop on the side of the highway. I'll leave it to the professionals."

 

[speedrye]

Had a realtor years ago I worked with and that was her mindset. I drive a big Mercedes so people see I’m successful and success means I sell houses and isn’t that why they are hiring me? Made sense even though it just made me realize how much they make for sometimes very little work-kinda like car dealers

I might give @Broverlander crap, but it's really realtors that belong deeper in Dante's circles, with few exceptions.

 

[speedrye]

Me to my wife when trying to justify a winch: "I need it to help pull people out of the ditch during the winter. Think of the children!"

Me while driving to work in the winter and seeing someone in the ditch: "I'm sure they've already called for help and would be embarrassed if I stopped. Also, it's dangerous for me to stop on the side of the highway. I'll leave it to the professionals."

I've been stuck one time in my Toyota and my winch wouldn't have helped. Off logging roads near the Maine/Canadian border (not really sure which side I was on), probably 100 miles from the nearest stoplight. Completely flat ground, frozen so solid no ground anchors would work and with no trees for attachment points. I've never seen ice so slick. Lockers/diffs locked, low range, aired down to 8psi, and there was ZERO movement regardless of what I tried. Took a long, cold hike to a house I'd passed many miles back and the old fella helped me out with his tractor and a few hundred feet of strap. Yes, I'm that special that my 4wd got stuck on flat ground...

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

Next tires. Way too small. Like I walked up to it thinking that’s it?

It’s a 265 on an 18” rim, so 31 or 32” tire? Also a brand I had never heard of.

I still really want to see a 33” on an 18” on the Traveler. I’m really curious how that looks.

I’m running 285s on my Wrangler and I think the Recon would look better on a bigger tire.

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Definitely needs more tire.

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

When I got in the seat was all the way to the floor. They said they do that to make it easier to get into. It really wasn’t necessary. It was t that tall. It felt tight un the seat. I think it’s because the center console is so wide. I never felt that way sitting in the Traveler. I know it’s wider, but only 4 inches wider than the Recon.

It’s just bulky.
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Sigh. Stop rubbing it in.

Not all of us have been offered the opportunity to sit in the Traveler.

 

[cyure]

Definitely needs more tire.

Definitely.

 

[cyure]

Sigh. Stop rubbing it in.

Not all of us have been offered the opportunity to sit in the Traveler.

Sorry.

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

Sorry.

You’re fine haha. My jealousy wrote that, don’t mind him.

 

[cyure]

You’re fine haha. My jealousy wrote that, don’t mind him.

I can’t wait till you all have the opportunity. I’m hoping next year more and lot of us are seeing them and sitting in them and it’s not such a rate occurrence.

 

[Broverlander]

I might give @Broverlander crap, but it's really realtors that belong deeper in Dante's circles, with few exceptions.

Bring on the jokes. Most of them a true anyway!

Realtors. Ninth circle of hell. With the advent of MLS and online listings, they do even less than they did for the share of the 6% commission the National Association of Realtors admitted was illegal yet still somehow charge.

 

[J Alynn]

Bring on the jokes. Most of them a true anyway!

Realtors. Ninth circle of hell. With the advent of MLS and online listings, they do even less than they did for the share of the 6% commission the National Association of Realtors admitted was illegal yet still somehow charge.

And yet try to sell your home without one. They treat it like the plague and avoid it due to less commission.

 

[robothero]

Really surprised that a Jeep dealership was disorganized. Glad you go to test drive it at least!