Re: RE: Jeep Liberty (Off Topic)

From: Jon Slavic (jons@laserdrive.com)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 14:04:53 EST


If you read my signature, my wife drives the Liberty Limited. I've never
noticed any excess noise. My only complaint is the gas mileage is only
about 15 mpg. We drive about 50/50 highway/city and the best we ever got
was 18 mpg on the highway from Pittsburgh to Phily. Everything else is
great. They go great in the snow!

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Jon Slavic
2000 Dodge Dakota Sport Plus, 4x4, 4.7L, CC, Intense Blue
2003 Jeep Liberty Limited, 4x4, 3.7L, Bright Silver

""Rick Barnes"" <barnesrv@comcast.net> wrote in message news:000401c3fa1d$c43b6bd0$7900a8c0@highland... > > We own a 2003 Liberty Renegade, (just added a brush guard to it this > weekend), and we don't really notice any excessive noise at 3k rpm, but we > did not drive any of the other models so I cannot say if it is quieter, I > doubt that it is. However, this has a sunroof that may cause more > insulation there, but I would guess they are all insulated the same. We > have been very happy with it to this point. My wife drives a lot, she has > 15,000 miles on it and bought it July 2, 2003. > Rascal > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net > [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Kenneth > Berntsen > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:50 AM > To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net > Subject: DML: Jeep Liberty (Off Topic) > > > I'm hopeing that some on out there has a spouse, brother/sister or friend > with a 4x4 Jeep Liberty. > > My brother is looking to buy one and just wanted to get some additional > info for him after we went for a test drive Saturday night. > > The only 4x4 on the lot was a Sport model, he's looking for a Renegade. > What I noticed was that there's quite a bit of engine noise once the 3.7 > revs up to about 3000 RPM. Was wondering if any one had experience with a > the Limited or Renegade package to know if there was any additional noise > insulation included with those packages. > > Now for a little Dak related content. Seeing as how the new Durango and > Dakota have the 3.7 as the base engine. Like the 4.7, it's very smooth > accelerating, hard to notice when it shifts from 1st to 2nd around 40 MPH > but it lacks that low end grunt that the 3.9 had in my last dak. It did > seem to have ample power to get the vehicle up to highway speed, but I'm > guessing like with my old 3.9 that accelerating from 60 - 80 requires a > little planning and timing if you're planning on passing some one. Boy I > love having the 360 in my current Dak ;) (Don't like the visits to the > gas station though :| ) > > -- > Kenneth M. Berntsen > ------------------------------------------------- > 2000 Dakota QC 4x4, 5.9 V8 > 1996 Dakota Sport, 3.9 V6 (Retired) > 1990 Dakota 2.5 I4 (Retired) >



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