Surprise ... Surprise ... Surprise
Okay ... so I was sick for a couple days (thanks Mom) ... so been doing lots of sleeping.
The new horse had started making a whistling sound from the blower motor for the heat/AC, just before I came down with the creepy crud. Since I couldn't get on my knees, I took it to my buddy's tire/mechanical shop. He found a missing rubber plug in the vent blower ducting. He put a new plug in and told me no charge. Apparently Chrysler uses the same blower on lots of their cars and one or more of them has a sensor line that goes there. I gave him $20 for the tech and was glad it was minor.
I also needed to get out and get busy with getting a receiver installed so I can tow the trike on the trailer.
Went to U-Haul and they quoted me $350 installed. Not horrible, but, not bad.
Went to my buddies shop "Spring Works". Mainly they deal with trailer springs, truck lift kits, bearings and such. So I tell him what I need and he gets on the computer. I tell him it's a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and he asks me which model. I told him it's the 3.0L diesel Summit. He asks me if that's it outside and I said yep. He said he'd be right back.
He goes out, gets on the ground and looks under the rear of the beast. I'm thinking he is checking out the frame. Since I'm still feeling a little punny, I took a seat. He comes in a few minutes later and says, "It will be $450 and with take 2 minutes."
My response was, "Say what?"
He tells me to come out with him. He shows me the rear and there is a hitch there. I'm getting old, but, I would of noticed that ... LOL. Apparently, the Summit comes standard with the receiver, wiring and a convenient door in the rear bumper to hide it. Who knew.
I was jazzed and offered him $20 for his time, he told me I was a good customer and to forget it. Nice guy.
He then showed me one of the wheels and said, "Notice anything?". I didn't. He told me to look at the lugs. One of them was about 3/4" longer than the others. Apparently the PO had removed the locking lugs and put some on that "fit" but weren't quite right.
I stopped by the Chrysler place and picked up 4 of the right ones, had Big O install them and tipped the tech $10, he said to come back in 100 miles to re torque them, told him I'll do that myself, he said, torque to 110#.
All in all, pretty good day. I was thinking upwards of $600 ... came in at just under $100 .... Chrysler gets $14.95 plus tax a lug ... no wonder the PO put something else on ... LOL.
Almost forgot. I filled up today. Not because I needed to, still had a 250 mile range and was at 3/4 of a tank, but, because I was curious as to what the MPG's would be. I got 20.8 mpg, not bad for around town.