Some feedback on the way the JK performed as a tourer... excellently
We did 5000Km between Yass and returning home around Tasmania. The Rhino Rack worked perfectly and is less noisy at speed than the Windcheetah unit that I had on the Disco.
The Jeep really performed well on the tracks, negotiating the Ring River track with ease while the Prado and Troopie that accompanied us both needed recovery and the Prado broke a CV.
We did notice that Tasmanian fuel is crap with the motor pinging its head off up long hills in 5th gear. a couple of times we needed half a tank of 95 octane to fix it. On the way up the Hume on the way home no problems at all with mainland 91 octane. Fuel economy was around the 14.5 - 15 l/100Km indicated on the dash.
The one track that stopped us was the sawback range track. About 3Km in we came across the hole below and I needed a tug backward because the diff was stuck on the high section of the road. We could have made it further by winching but I'm a believer in winching out of trouble, not into it
All up the Wrangler performed faultlessly although it was a bit tight with two adults and two kids.
Regards,
Tote
