With the jeep having been behaving herself for a little while now we took her for a spin up the highway a couple of weekends ago to Halls Gap towing the new van. This would be our first outing in the van so a good test for both.
Gee the weather was kind to us..having taken the Friday off work we headed off. This would be that Friday when the Northerly wind blew Melbourne off the map. From home we were sideways all the way to the Westgate, Ive never seen wind like that on the Pakenham bypass.
The van isnt a huge weight in comparison with some with an ATM of 2.7 tn, I reckon we were just about on it all loaded up, so much so I had invested in a WDH which was quite good.
We went up the Pentlands doing approx 80 kmh and was sometimes in 5th gear cos of the wind but the temperatures stayed steady..gearbox 95, oil 105
The fun part was at the bottom of Pykes Resevoir..I let the car run down the hill and just as we were almost on the bridge at the bottom a huge gust just hit us and blew us half into the emergency lane...so I just floored it and slowly eased it all back into the lane but it all seemed to stay steady on the road which was good. Seems I had set up the hitch properly and had the weight spot on.
After ballarat it eased off and got to Halls Gap at about 2 pm. The car had chewed through nearly 3/4 of a tank of juice and fuel usage was around 17.5 I deliberatley kept it between 90 - 100 kmh
Saturday it rained all day so we just hung out in the van and got used to it all and idled home Sunday. Fuel was down to 15.5 for the trip home and used half a tank
But the old girl did well as she has done 106,000 now but she just charged on...really happy
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G'day guys. Newbie here who has just put a deposit on a 2012 Grand Cherokee Laredo with only 25,000 k's! I'm picking it up next. It's a replacement for my AWD Ford Territory so I'm looking forward to having an actual 4WD. It's pretty much stock part from the factory fitted upgrade of the Quadralift (?) air suspension (if that's what it's called) - that was a major selling point. I plan on fitting a black low profile nudge bar to mount my spotlights too, but finding a nice unit seems to be proving difficult...
And can someone confirm for me if a 2012 is a WK or WK2 (newb question sorry)
G'day guys. Newbie here who has just put a deposit on a 2012 Grand Cherokee Laredo with only 25,000 k's! I'm picking it up next. It's a replacement for my AWD Ford Territory so I'm looking forward to having an actual 4WD. It's pretty much stock part from the factory fitted upgrade of the Quadralift (?) air suspension (if that's what it's called) - that was a major selling point. I plan on fitting a black low profile nudge bar to mount my spotlights too, but finding a nice unit seems to be proving difficult...
And can someone confirm for me if a 2012 is a WK or WK2 (newb question sorry)
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