I was doing about 65 om the freeway this morning, hit a bump and the steering wheel was all over the place. surface streets got me to work and back. looking into it this weekend
I prefer the butyl rubber like dynamat. I haven't seen any good long term reviews of asphalt products. The stuff with holes from amazon is interesting. Much thicker so the mass may work to keep the vibrations down.
The tj community is very much like the scion community 10-14 years ago. The vehicles aren't exactly what everybody wants, but the people that wanted them became passionate, fast. Helping everybody figure out what works and doesn't was a huge part of that community, just like here.
It really all depends on the install quality. My scion has one mainly for the remote start capability. I installed it myself 10-12 years ago. It doesn't do anything since the remote was destroyed a few years ago by a valet, but it doesn't cause any problems. Don't get anything installed at best...
Born in Tucson, lived in Arizona my whole life. That dark reddish brown makes me want to go cry in a corner. My jeep spent it's first few years in wisconsin. I spend a lot of time alone in my room with the lights out.
It's the "skateboard wheels" and oversized exhaust that get me on this one. I really don't know big diesel from my elbow, but these things are usually stock or they hav bigger stacks than a peterbilt. It's not the worst I've seen but it's far from good,
I really don't think there's much difference. I used duplicolor on mine bacause they carry it it O'Reilly auto parts right down the street, but it's only been a couple months. Not long enough for a real evaluation. Most any rattle can company makes wheel paint that should be fine.
I ended up buying 2 cars in the last 6 months or so. Ended up buying from dealers because of the flakey/shady people on CL. Listed as private party, show up and it's a lot with 20 cars, a shack, and a fence.
Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.
Do you have a code reader? You can borrow my scan gauge but I'm up in nw phx. That 97 sounds good, but may be a mess. Hard to say for sure, but that's even cheap for here.
Congrats to all of you! Shanghai is incredible. What university is she going to? Last time i was over there we spent 4 or 5 days at Tongji university. It was beautiful.