New Jeep owner in darwin. Gday!
 

Howdy y'all,
Andrew here from Darwin NT. We have just purchased our first Jeep and thought we'd join the forum. Been a Toyota disciple all my life and the Jeep certainly is a different kettle of fish. Fast,comfy, and built closer to car than a truck.Probably the ultimate and only true SUV.

It's up on stands at the moment waiting on some new alloy axles from the US, and a new AC compressor discharge hose/pipe. In the 2 months we've owned her we have fitted a new head sourced from the states, new S/S exhaust manifold and front pipe, new TPS, serviced the auto trans.

It's an UpCountry job so has the extra bash plates etc. One owner from new 1998 XJ in Mossy Green. Missus loves driving it, but the lack of aircon at the moment puts a damper on her enthusiasm somewhat!

We new going in we were going to spend some cash on the thing,and we are committed.

We use myus.com as our shipping agent in the states, and simply buy parts off Amazon and Ebay like we live there,have done for years. The exchange rate is weakening now but still the way to go for American car parts.

Local Jeep dealer quoted my AirCon guy $618 for the aircon discharge hose,got one stateside for $175 use,same MOPAR part number! classic

Anyway,enough waffle, happy to be here!;)

New Jeep owner in darwin. Gday!
 

Welcome :-) fair few XJ owners on here, great to hear we have another.

Welcome to the madness mate!! :mrgreen: I'm glad you came from the dark side, was once part of that toyota group myself :)-(: ahh well we live and learn ;)
It's good to have another Cherokee driver on the forum, the smack talk can get quiet sometimes :p

G'day Mate,

Welcome to Jeepin in Darwin. If your interested we have a club NT Jeepers going, only new in Darwin. For more info email us at NTJeepers@outlook.com and also look us up on Face Book under NT Jeepers.

As TJ Andy said mate welcome to darwin jeeping lifestyle, you will have to put a pic up of the ol girl, love the xjs, and yer the nt jeepers are a great bunch of jeep people.

Thanks Ben. Newsletter sent out today as well.

Thanks amigo's
 

Thanks for the welcome fellas. Getting a bit depressed looking at the old girl up on stands, should be out bush. Mind you this dry season is cr@p so far ay.
Since we have owned the XJ is only been driven a couple times pulling the boat, the rest just between mechanic and aircon guy ha ha,never been off the bitumen! They tell me thats normal lol