Looks nice!!! You planning on bringing it to the Blessing?

 

Thanks!
I'm going to try to get some pictures of it actually clean tomorrow... before we get dumped on with snow again Sunday.

I was looking into the Blessing, I don't know if I'll be able to do it or not.

 

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Cargo net set - the flat net and the "envelope" net (I put a bottle in there to show the net better):

Haha! I just noticed my Christmas R2D2 is showing himself through the side window!
Just had to point that out...

 

Don't be too ashamed of being a nerd, lol. I can be that way myself. http://www.roguestarfleet.com/

 

No shame here!
My "Santa Yoda" inflatable was the pride and joy of my yard this year... the R2D2 was a clearance sale purchase that will be added next year to keep Yoda company

 

Just make sure R2 doesn't steal Yoda's lightsaber. I'm sure we all remember the Dagobah incident with the flashlight.

 

Over the weekend I was trying to track down a squeaking/metal scraping metal sound... I ruled out suspension stuff by jacking up the car and pushing things around and inspecting for anything that looked like it was rubbing - everything was properly coated in road salt and dirt so there were no obvious problems. Then it occurred to me that the screws from the rear cargo envelope posts stuck through pretty far and might be contacting the metal in the trunk area.
Quick inspection revealed that there was definitely some rubbing:

I cut a couple of squares of velcro to add some padding to the area after my first plan of using spare valve stem caps ended in a valve stem cap now residing somewhere behind the panel... :doh:

Didn't really change the sound any, so that wasn't the cause... but at least I know I'm not rubbing through my paint anymore!
I'm not really worried about the noise, just wanted to make sure nothing was going to break off on me.

 

Today I ordered some different interior LED bulbs with 6 lights on them instead of 3 like the ones I have now, a set of LED license plate bulbs, LED backup lights, 4 Rockford Fosgate R1693 speakers, and the wiring harnesses for the speakers. I really need to stay away from the internet when I'm all caught up at work and don't have any patients... :doh:

 

Swapped out my first set of LED interior lights for a set with 6 emitters... the set came with 6 of the festoon style bulbs and 4 license plate bulbs. Unfortunately it did NOT come with a smaller festoon bulb for the cargo area light.

Set:

New vs Old:

The new bulbs obviously have more emitters... but I thought it was odd that they had no heat sink. The old ones (as you can see) had huge heat sinks built in, and they got really hot. Kind of makes me wonder if the new ones will be more likely to burn out quickly.

Installed them - and they are certainly brighter than the old bulbs! I tried using an app on my phone to measure the difference in lux - but it wasn't giving numbers that made sense so I decided not to bother.

The license plate bulbs look like this:

Easy to install... removing the old bulb was easy to do when I had the thought of wrapping a little strip of duct tape around the bulb to grip it and yank it out.

Here is a comparison of the standard bulb vs LED bulb:

 

Just curious - why do you need a smaller festoon bulb for the light in the cargo area? Does the 09 series of Patriots have a different light back there? I installed the same LEDs as in your picture in all three dome lights in my '12

 

IIRC, I replaced all of mine with the same 4x4 leds

You guys were right, I was able to use the same bulb in the rear/cargo area light. I just had to bend the tabs out a little bit to fit the longer bulb in, but it snapped into place just fine. REALLY lights up the cargo area nicely.

Size difference was pretty minor as far as length of the bulb - but light output difference is HUGE!

 

The rear light on mine is the "flashlight" dome light that pops out... I don't know of that is the same still. My first set came with a smaller bulb, I didn't really try to see if the big one fits...
I'm won't get a chance to check until Friday, then I'll post up info

 

I thought all Patriots had that flashlight. Mine does, and it's pretty basic.

 

Mine doesn't have it.

 

IIRC, I replaced all of mine with the same 4x4 leds

 

Finally home from a week in St Lucia... and I came home to a bunch of goodies waiting for me!
I totally forgot about the lighted cup holders - but they are here now, my speakers were waiting for me, and my LED reverse bulbs are here. Saturday is going to be a fun day once I get unpacked! Unfortunately a rum bottle was shattered in my bag... So unpacking may be more time consuming than planned

I really want to pull out the center console and try the cup holders right now - but it is 2am and I really should go to sleep! LOL!

Expect an excessive amount of pictures Saturday

 

Dude... I respect you SERIOUSLY, I could not do this,,,,

I hope to see the final result! and I bet I wish I owned it!

 

Thanks.
Not doing anything very difficult - if you're talking about the cupholders that should be a 30 minute job tops if all goes according to plan, which it probably won't

 

Bad news already... I opened the box my speakers came in - and found only ONE SET of speakers! :doh:

I've already emailed OnlineCarStereo about it with a picture of the freshly opened box containing one set speakers. The description stated that speakers were sold in pairs unless noted otherwise - ordering "2" should give me 2 sets unless my math is wrong. I'm hoping they will be able to quickly remedy the situation

 

Wow I hope they make it right for you man.

 

Thanks. Never dealt with this company before, but I'm hopeful.

It never does does it... 9:00pm "Honey I'm going out to wire my winch be back in an hour or two. 2:00am."Well that took longer than expected."

LOL! Been there many times... I've always found it best to estimate a time, then multiply it by 3 to 5

Got the exploded rum residue cleaned off my scuba gear... and sort of unpacked... maybe it is time to tackle some of the fun for the day!

 

Alrighty... that was EASY! Just installed the lighted cup holders... would have been a 5 minute job if I hadn't misplaced my torx bit set. I had put it SOMEWHERE so that when I did this job I would know where it was. No clue where that could be, luckily I had a spare T20 bit sitting in another tool box.

Did a write up on it here: http://www.jeeppatriot.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1281321#post1281321

Final result looks like this:

 

Awesome!

 

Thanks!

This is awesome, I have lighted cup holders, but now that I can see how stuff is taken apart, i'm going to illuminate the glove box in the center.

Glad to be of some help
That sounds like a cool idea - would be pretty simple if you just came off the harness that goes to the cup holders.

 

This is awesome, I have lighted cup holders, but now that I can see how stuff is taken apart, i'm going to illuminate the glove box in the center.

 

Just got done installing the 2 speakers that did show up - fairly easy job... but the plastic rim on the speakers (the RF model everyone suggests) really gets in the way of tightening the screws down much. Seems to hold solidly enough though - and they sound nice. Hoping the company sends me the other 2 without any hassle .

Also swapped in the LED reverse lights, easy enough to do after I noticed that the wires on the base of the bulb were in the wrong spots and flipped them around to match the stock bulb! :doh:

No pictures of that... hard to see in the daytime

 

Just got off the phone with Online Car Stereo .com - after being hung up on twice when selecting the "Customer Service" option from the phone tree menu I tried the "Sales" option and actually got to speak to someone. He gave me an email address to send some photos of the order to so they can determine if the items were actually missing.

Hopefully this gets handled quickly... but I'm not sure how confident I am that it will given the "customer service" hangups!

We'll see! I guess I should have just bought them from Amazon and paid the extra $10.

 

how much do the Rugged Ridge Floormats costs, whered you get them , and are they any close to as good for like 20 $, or inexpensive as can be, like at wal mart?

 

I paid $89 for them on Amazon, it appears the price went up quite a bit though - here is a link: [ame]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JEUHSXY[/ame]

I would guess that you aren't going to find anything close for $20 - these are custom cut for the Patriot and the rubber is quite heavy duty.

 

Have you ever heard of Sonic Electronix? I just ordered my speakers from them and they were great, if you ever have another need to purchase electronics like that.

I really hope they get you your speakers :/

 

Thanks.

Thanks for the link. On my current budget, thats a bit steep, might have to just get some inexpensive ones or just wait

if you dont mind how much did you buy your riot from your sister?

Yeah, they're pricey now... $89 was a little hard to swallow until they arrived and I realized they were worth every penny. Probably wouldn't have bought them if they had been $130+ like they are now.

I paid $6500 for it, but since she had the "90,000 mile service" done on it before dropping it off at my house it is as if I only paid $6k for it since I would have had to spend that $500 anyway to get the fluids all changed out. Bottom end of the blue book value for trade in value was right around $6500-7000 when we looked, so that's all she wanted for it. If I didn't take it she was just going to use it as a trade in on her new Cherokee.

Not to hijack the thread, John I have Mopar slush mats for sale if you're interested in the Outpost section.

Hijacker!!

 

Not to hijack the thread, John I have Mopar slush mats for sale if you're interested in the Outpost section.

 

Good news this evening - online car stereo came though and is shipping me the second set of speakers. Looks like they will be here middle of next week.
Their communication via email is poor which is ironic for an online store, but in the end it seems like it is working out.

Really should have gone through Amazon in the first place