Manual or Automatic transmission
07-28-2010, 10:50 AM
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Bonus for manual - or, bummer?
Just about nobody knows how to drive them these days. Sad, but true.
I take my wife out for dinner, and I have to valet park it myself - damn valet kids don't know how...
But, then again, that may be a good thing.... (cue scene from Ferris Bueller's Day off w/ the Ferrari...)
But that was a manual...
Of my 4 jeeps, only 1 has been an auto, and if I'd have found a 5spd 4.0l Cherokee XJ, I would have bought one...
Island Boy...
I take my wife out for dinner, and I have to valet park it myself - damn valet kids don't know how...
But, then again, that may be a good thing.... (cue scene from Ferris Bueller's Day off w/ the Ferrari...)
But that was a manual...
Of my 4 jeeps, only 1 has been an auto, and if I'd have found a 5spd 4.0l Cherokee XJ, I would have bought one...
Island Boy...
07-29-2010, 05:35 AM
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Valet parking? No thanks. I prefer to not let anybody I don't know personally drive my vehicle. A friend of mine use to live behind a nightclub. And every night you could hear the valet morons revving up engines beyond redline and peeling the tires behind the building. At a minimum wage/tip salary, they will treat your car just as if that is how much they paid for it, not the $30k or double/triple for some of those cars we saw them abusing the engines of.
Plus the situation still exists where the valet that initially goes to bring your vehicle back to you and tries to learn how to drive a stick right then and there for 5 minutes before getting someone else to bring it to you?
Valet parking, again, I say no thanks!
Plus the situation still exists where the valet that initially goes to bring your vehicle back to you and tries to learn how to drive a stick right then and there for 5 minutes before getting someone else to bring it to you?
Valet parking, again, I say no thanks!
07-29-2010, 05:53 AM
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As I age with some old lower spine injuries, an automatic is less painful. It also insures as long as I can still climb into the Jeep, I can use it.
I miss my manual though, and it would be a blast with a hemi.
I think a stick is more fun.
I miss my manual though, and it would be a blast with a hemi.
I think a stick is more fun.
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08-02-2010, 01:40 PM
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Amen to that. Based on Chrysler's auto tranny failure rate over the past couple of decades I think I would be too paranoid to take an auto JK where I take my manual JK... WAY off the beaten path. Six speed all the way 
08-02-2010, 08:56 PM
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Re: Manual or Automatic transmission
Auto, never stalls, and the hill starting procedure is the same as the garage starting procedure.
08-10-2010, 10:18 PM
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08-10-2010, 10:22 PM
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I'm on my second jeep and they are the only vehicles I've ever owned that were automatics.... I also swore very early on that I would never own an automatic.
Having had a truck that was a stick I have to say its alot easier when driving to work, around town, etc. to not have to shift.... but I haven't taken the rubi on any rocks yet so I make no claims on that front.
..... crap now I miss my manual .....
Having had a truck that was a stick I have to say its alot easier when driving to work, around town, etc. to not have to shift.... but I haven't taken the rubi on any rocks yet so I make no claims on that front.
..... crap now I miss my manual .....