What the local Jeep dealer told me about diesels JKs

[The Swiss]

Toledo Ohio may be where it was assembled but where were the parts sourced from? Check your sticker for the percentage and let me know

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71% domestic part content for the 2012 Wrangler, which is about average for a US vehicle. Big portion is the transmission coming from Germany (best of my knowledge not a 3rd world country). Now do me a favor and look at the window stickers of Ford and Chevy and tell me what difference you see. What you don't see is where the non-domestic parts are coming from. Ford and Chrysler tend to get more of the non-domestic parts from Mexico and Europe, GM a little more from China. My wife's Nissan Maxima btw is at 76%.

If domestic part content is important for you - which it should be - then I hope you drive a Honda Accord, which if I remember correctly has a domestic part content of above 80%.

Anyhow: Please don't be confused. Just because Chrysler claims that their vehicles are imported from Detroit does not mean that they are cheap 3rd world crap. Detroit aint that bad :elkgrin:

 

[Bruiser Conversions]

Not sure if this would be an option for you, but Bruiser Conversions has a diesel conversion for Jeep JKs. I've seen them in action, and they're impressive.

http://www.bruiserconversions.com/

- Andy

First, thanks Andy for the mention! You guys rock!

Secondly, I may have come a little late to this party, but if anyone has any questions about our 3.9L Cummins 4BT turbo diesel conversion, I'd love to be of assistance.

Thanks.

 

[Beowulf]

When you start doing something smaller like a 3.3 then we can talk.

 

[Storz]

diesel over hybrid as the answer anyday in my book

putting on my flame suit now--ha

I could not agree more! Love my little 45mpg TDI with 220lbs/ft of torque and a manual trans

 

[irishcoffee]

I do bieve that Cummins will suit better the 2013 Jk Diesel instead the actual VM Motori diesel (see CRD export models).
I say this as owner of a JK equiped with a Diesel common rail, 4 cyl, 2777cc, 177Hp, 428RA type, VM Motori with 120k km round the clock after 3years:
- Injector 4 problems
- lazy output on road
- turbo hoses weak
- overheating issues
Milleage is decent: 20-23 mpg as average

Cheers
John