warp2diesel wrote:
Glend wrote:
You can also buy the Wrangler diesels in Australia, manufactured in Toledo. Currently available for about $39k Australian (or about $25k US). The CRDs are very popular over here both in the KJ and JK. My son drives a JK CRD Unlimited and it is a very capable vehicle, regularly pulls Toyotas out of bogged situations. No substitute for torque. The JK CRDs are delivered with the 460nm 2.8L Vm engine, which is an upgrade on the engine in the KJ series (different injectors I think). The KJ CRDs had 400nm of torque.
Ideal way to get one is to come to Australia on a holiday and pick it up from your dealer of choice and drive it around here. We have thousands of British and European backpackers that come to Australia every year and buy vehicles while they are here. Getting it shipped back to the US would have to be arranged and I don't know what your local regulations say about driving around in right hand drive vehicles - you would need to sort that out. It would certainly be a unique Wrangler in your world.
The only way I have figured out to get a JK CRD would be to mount the body onto a diesel truck chassis that meets the Emission Certification. Plus you would have to do it in a state that would allow it to be done. When you were done, you would not have a JK CRD, but a JK body on a truck chassis. Since none of the 3/4 / 1 ton pickups have engines small enough to fit under the hood, you would have to get something like a step van chassis with a Maxforce 5 and hang the JK body on that.
The process is rather confusing and there are many loop holes to make the process even that much more difficult. I’m fortunate that I have two resident locations (New Mexico and Kansas) that doesn’t care what I drive and what engine I have. Remember, the federal law leaves a lot to each state to interpret.
First, you buy the CRD from overseas, then you ship it over to the United States, then you install it (just like they came from the factory) into a US model JK. Speaking from experience, Kansas and New Mexico do not inspect vehicles for emissions, nor do they open your hood and see what you got. In the State of California, all you have to do is pass a smog test. The new European 2.8 VM diesels are super clean (cleaner than the Jeep Liberty diesel here in the U.S.) and will pass most emission inspections in most states. You can also run biodiesel if you are worried about not passing the emissions in your state. If your state matches the engine code with the VIN, then you will have more problems but nothing that hasn’t been resolved many times over. However, this process will require a different set of procedures. Basically, there are literally dozens of people importing 2007-2009 European diesel engines and swapping them into the same U.S. make and model. If you need more information, please PM me.
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