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What about wind noise? The factory rack was whisteling along on the test drive. Are the Gobi racks just insanely noisy. Must I simply accept this as the price of driving a truck?
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Not sure why, but my roof rack hardly makes any noise at all even though I've read that some others have complained of this. Maybe it is the spacing of the cross members???
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Anyone considered the benefits of simply waiting a year or two for things like earth tones; grab handles for passengers; a diesel? I don't know that any of these things are coming but like many in the FJ community I'd like more choices.
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Earth tones and a diesel sure would be nice! But who knows if they'll be out anytime soon. But, the aftermarket crowd such as All Pro and other forum sponsors here are creating lots of upgrades with more to come.
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Manual or automatic? If I dare the Rubicon one day is a manual tranny a must, or can I happily bounce over it, kids in tow, with an auto? Seriously, I don't think they'd come with, but I'd be tempted.
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I have a manual. I LOVE it for driving around town & normal stuff but much to my surprise I don't like it off road. When I bought the FJ I expected the exact opposite and have been surprised by this. The Autos seem superior offroad in my opinion. The crawl ratio in the FJ manual is just not high enough but this is overcome by the torque converter in the Auto. To be fair, this is only noticable when you are doing harder terrain such as rock crawling where very slow and precise driving is required. I'm pretty sure that I read that even the Toyota trail team members prefer the auto and they've taken one down the Rubicon.
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ATRAC and diff locks -- what do I need really. Can I enable ATRAC on an automatic for $50, or is that only on the manual jobs.
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If you are doing much beyond mild offroading you will really need either or both the ATRAC and the rear locker. Personally, I don't use my rear locker much since the ATRAC pretty much handles most situations. Come to think of it, I did two days of wheeling in the Sierras this weekend and didn't use the locer once. But, when you need it it is nice. And your comment on the plastic is right on, but hey, nothing we can do about that.
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