Japanese Jeep Cherokee Right Hand Drive!?

A Jeep exported to Japan gets imported back. Let's take a good look at this right handed world traveler.

[@tatankacleary]

Had a 91 ?? Lhd here in Ireland imported from Germany but originally from America loved it

[@PeterAndersons]

Those bloody things were common here... RHD is Aus, UK, NZ, Japan... maybe a few other places too.

[@CanadianCharlie64]

Malta

[@tonyswheels1003]

Yeah and as you probably know Peter, not a favorite here in Oz because of reliabilty but mostly awful customer support and expensive parts.

[@PeterAndersons]

Yep, that's it in a nutshell, cheers.

[@toki89666]

Do they come in a 5 speed manual over there? I would love to pick up a RHD postal Jeep here in the USA and convert to manual. They are 100% always automatic here, which makes sense for constantly stopping at mailboxes.

[@pmkjeep3907]

We have RHD jeeps here in Ireland to

[@briansutherland5414]

Welcome to right hand side of life ,merry Christmas happy hogmanay from UK all best 19

[@garbage854]

Cool 😀 Glad to see another video .

[@kimoarmstrong3519]

These were available in America NEW as a rural postal vehicle. A family friend had one.

[@michaelhowell7165]

I love my RHD Cherokee

[@jimkoval8546]

I retired from the Brampton Ontario Chrysler Assembly plant a year ago. We built the Charger, Challenger and 300's. For several years we were building RHD Chrysler 300's for the Asian market(China, Japan, Australia). It was a little weird testing them on the rolls(dyno) machine but I only got in the wrong side the first couple times.

[@Jim-ie6uf]

We had a36 RR, right hand drive, gear shift and lever operated parking brake also on the right. After a while you get used to it. No good for drive throughs or bank drive ups. Get a pre-war Roller if you really want trials and tribulations. I like the Jeep, myself. There are some down here in s Fla delivering mail on rural routes, not sure if they’re available anymore. Great to see you back. Merry Christmas, Jim.

[@TheHell666yeah]

Nice video. I hope you had a Merry Christmas

[@iixlegitgamer]

We see a lot of RHD jeeps up here in NY. We have a lot of rural mail routes. And they have liberties wranglers and cherokees

[@jordyderidder8485]

The speedo has probably been changed after being imported back as they are going out with a km speedo, rust is something you will rarely find on Japanese vehicles as the compulsory yearly roadworthyness testing in Japan is very strict on rust, Japanese vehicles are therefore very well maintained and worth buying which we do a lot here in the UK

[@richardhuckaby4728]

they were made & sold in the USA for years as Post Office mail delivery vehicles. all over the country.

[@raycole2760]

I own a right hand drive 4×4 and I love mine and it's a 1993 2door

[@jamespn]

Haven’t heard from you lately, glad you’re back.

[@gavinplunkett977]

Right hand drive, way to go.

[@d4ve587]

Good to see you amesie😎👍💪

[@rogersmith8096]

RHD Cherokees were available in USA Several have been on Craiglist in NH and ME . I have seen one down here in Rhode Island delivering maiI on Rural Routes. That Cherokee has the off-road shields package with the tank and front end shields. Most of the Mail Jeep were the Sport models with cloth interiors.

[@JonathanMoosey]

A lot of newer domestic vehicles do have the turn signal on the side. Granted they are usually built into the mirrors but still the same general idea.

[@nedasher116]

Grand and 97 up wrangler had coils front and back

[@gosportjamie]

That one was clearly a southern Japan car, northern Japan gets a lot of snow and cold weather and a lot of vehicles from there can be just as rusty and rotten as UK or US rust belt vehicles but that one was lovely and clean underneath...

[@UBBERTANKER]

we used to have a customer with a old rhd subaru legacy or imprezza. That was a trip to drive as it was a manual too

[@gosportjamie]

Yes, driving on the left with right-hand drive cars is standard for Japan. Being right-hand drive this one may well have been built in Graz, Austria in the Chryslet factory there. I'm actually fairly surprised that this is right-hand drive as, in Japan, it is considered more up-market to have a left-hand drive car so a lot of Mercedes-Benz, big BMWs and a whole lot of the imported luxury SUVs sold there will have been left-hand drive so a right-hand drive Japanese market Cherokee must be a pretty rare thing...

[@brianandrews7099]

Start a business importing junkyard front passenger seats and carpets (driver’s side in the US) in from Japanese junkyards since driver’s side always worn out while the passenger side looks new. You’d make a fortune!

[@17volcanic]

So interesting reading the comments, here in New Zealand all cars are RHD, plenty of ex manufacturer models from USA are made for the nz,au,UK,Japan,Singapore,Malaysia, Hong Kong, parts of africa including south Africa.basically former English colonies. Some popular ones such as f150 are not sold the ex factory but can be converted by after market companies- it expensive. Yes the brake master cylinder moves and other bits to fit. It would just be easier if nz drove on the right however! We only have 5 million people.

[@toki89666]

I have lived in the USA my entire life and I would love to have one of these in a 5 speed. I'm not a mail carrier, I just have a thing for RHD. I'm actually midway through converting my '95 Civic to RHD. Its a shame you can never find these postal Jeeps in 5 speed. But it makes sense for them to be automatic stopping every few feet at mailboxes. I wonder if 5 speed conversion would be easily done with factory parts without custom fabrication.

[@krm8372]

I was in Ireland in 2004. My rental car was rhd. Then your on the wrong side of the road and it was a stick shift. Very challenging to drive

[@weaton25]

I live in the UK and had a 2000/1 Jeep Cherokee Classic for over ten years it had very little rust on it when I sold it I only really sold it due to problems getting parts for it jeep do like changing stuff for no good reason. I have now got a 2007 JK 2.8crd jeep cherokee/liberty in the US it drives nice and is good off road but looks shit compered to the old XJ I thought when I first got it that I would get used to the way that it looks but I still hate the look of it but I would loose to much money if I changed it now so it seems I am stuck with it. As for right hand drive cars we drive on the left in the UK also Japan Australia several other countries so there is a good market for right hand drive cars why they ship right hand drive cars to the US from Japan is they do not use salt on there roads unlike we do in the UK so they tend to be rust free.

[@scottlarsh3119]

The speedo was likely switched to MPH upon return to north America

[@AmesiesCorner]

I don't think so.

[@gosportjamie]

It might have been, but from the look of it, with the face on the speedo not matching that of the other gauges, I suspect it's just had a sticker marked in MPH stuck on top of the original kilometer speedo, which is a fairly common trick with imported Japanese vehicles in countries that use MPH. Usually if the speedo has been changed out for a unit calibrated in miles you'll find that the odometer will have been converted at the same time, either automatically by the electronics in the dash when the new speedo head is installed or by changing out the digital display at the same time...

[@harrygatto]

Something has been changed as it would not have been allowed on the road in Japan with a MPH speedo.

[@matts18jlrubi97]

You are correct. You can tell they slapped a MPH speedo onto the KPH overlay different font and color. I owned a 98 XJ. It’s definitely an aftermarket MPH overlay to make it road legal here in the States.

[@FtanmoOfEtheirys]

@@AmesiesCorner it was, notice how it is a different color? I've owned 3 of these, all with metric speedometers.

[@notajp]

My ex had a Postal DJ-5. Took some getting used to. Only one seat on the right side.

[@davidwflint]

I think the same whenever I have to drive a LHD, as a Brit RHD is the norm over here. Look forward to more videos in future

[@Katarinarabbit]

I actually have a LHD Japanese import

[@Aspra]

Cool! I was sitting next to a TJ Wrangler that was RHD. It looked completely normal like one sold here. Im guessing it was the same situation, from a RHD country and brought back here.

[@AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979]

This was cool.

[@anthonydavis6372]

They were all built in Toledo Ohio. Same for Libertys, new style Cherokees (now built in Belvedere) and all Wranglers. We still build RHD Wranglers. Most get diesels. in 2 years the new Jeep truck will get RHD for the export market. I remember the first time I drove a manual transmission RHD. Took a few mins to get smooth shifting. It's still makes me laugh when people move them around at work and jump in the left side and realize its a right drive and have to jump out and run around to the other side.

[@edmulhall887]

Jeep sold those here in the USA to Postal Employees for use delivering mail on rural routes. I had a bunch of co-workers who had them back when I was a mailman. They also sold right hand drive Libertys and Wranglers too. They were only sold to postal employees. Saturn sold a right hand drive SW1 and Subaru sold right hand drive Legacy Wagons too but you had to work for the USPS to buy them.

[@GhettoWagon]

Don't need to worry about anyone hitting you over the double yella line in those. Atleast all the pedals are in the same spot, I driven a few of those RHD jeeps, cool as hell. Its just weird making left turns in it., Kinda turn in a little too much or too little before you get used to it.

[@hikenadventures3057]

Awesome ! Glad to see you back with some new content. Thanks for posting

[@davidscottnoble303]

We had these RHD in the UK. bit thirsty for our fuel prices. very rare sight now. guessing parts are quite scarce here.

[@roialblu]

No , parts are easy and cheap

[@shepshepherd]

I am based in the UK, so I learned to drive in a right hand drive car. The first and so far only time I've driven a left hand drive car was in New Hampshire in 2013, when I was visiting a friend in Canterbury who owned (and still owns) a 2005 Volvo V40. I had no real problems and quite enjoyed the experience :)

[@kaolla1000]

there is quite a few over here in the UK, i recently found a right hand drive plymouth barracuda here too

[@wastingtyme25]

Rhd jeeps are everywhere in the US. Rural mail carriers order them.

[@nedasher116]

Some were converted afterwards

[@Tellgio]

I'm Australian, so this looks ok to me. hehe. When I drove in the USA, it felt weird getting in on the 'other side'. One other difference you'll notice is the wiper arms go into the plenum grille in 'opposite' places so the wiper blade coves more of the drivers windscreen. Cheers mate.

[@Toyotas_n__Tools]

the MPH looks like a sticker slapped on the dash.

[@luxstar4life]

Dana 30 front. Dana 35 rear in this one.

[@tonyswheels1003]

Just did a web search around 80 countries drive on the right. Trivia question - "Which US controlled dominion drives on the LH side of the road and why"?

[@gred_cz]

cool :). that speedo was deffinitely swaped or something, you can already tell someone did something with it given to how different it looks from the rest of the gauges. japan uses kilometers, i did a quick google search for jeeps for sale in japan and it shows that all got km/h speedos.

[@8deity]

It looks like a sticker had been put on top the km/h scale, maybe a requirement for re-importing to the US? Or just to make it easier for the drivers to stick to the speed limits.. ;)

[@gred_cz]

i thought about that aswell, but if it would be only a sticker, then the backlight of the gauges couldnt shine through...but maybe it is and the one who did it simply didnt cared about that hahaha

[@completefemboyr.n.g1308]

From Willie's time to present day you can still buy a right hand Jeep just order one

[@tonyswheels1003]

Oops that shoud have been LEFT 80 duh!

[@tonyswheels1003]

And Australia, also probably New Zealand, Sth Africa, Great Britian and a myriad of other countries with British connections

[@alcoholicvdgambler]

I missed this channel

[@johneaston4963]

Looks OK to me,but I'm in the UK see we drive on the right,

[@TheExStig]

In Scotland all cars I pass are RHD, even the one I drive has always been RHD. Also, the mail boxes are on the LEFT, no Idea why Japan would have them on the RIGHT like in the US? They're bonkers!

[@harrygatto]

What are you talking about?

[@bonemanshobbies3538]

Hahahaha paul. We drive on the right side of our cars here is RSA and even on the other side of the road than u. I imagine it will be strange for me to have a lefti this side. Enjoy your videos a bunch.

[@charlesdyer2376]

Mr. Post Man Bring Me a dream !!! the reason for the wheel being on the rt. side is in case of a head on it wont kill the driver so the cops can give Him/Her a ticket !!

[@nedasher116]

8 1/4 rear end Dana 30 front

[@paddy1437]

steering wheel is definitely on the correct side :)

[@TheStwat]

Yep :)

[@DashcamRiprock]

In the US, you can (could) buy a RHD Wrangler, up until the previous generation, usually available to mail carriers. I'm not sure if or when they're going to do a version of the current model.

[@Gramps83]

they do.

[@mcwillies2737]

Mail carriers use RHD Wranglers in my area due to harsh roads

[@DashcamRiprock]

I've seen those in rural Vermont (redundant?) along with some ancient RHD Legacy wagons.

[@pugman205]

That's one sweet Jeep, not too common here in the UK anymore, not that they where ever that popular to begin with. The 4 litre might be a good strong and reliable engine, but in the UK its classed as a big engine, and its quite a thirsty engine as gas (petrol) is certainly not as cheap, plus here, same as Japan its of a higher octane rating. Generally speaking UK and Japanese gas is a min of 95 octane for regular and premium is usually 97 or 98 octane. it also looks like the speedo has been swapped out for one that reads in miles per hour as Japan the speeds are in kilometres per hour. Hence why its a different colour to the rest of the instrument cluster. Damn I also miss driving over in the US, but your right, getting into a car on the wrong side for what you used to and driving it is kind of daunting at first, but you get used to it. Though having spent 3 weeks driving autos over there and coming back to Manchester airport, jetlagged and screaming around the carpark in 1st gear wandering why my car wont change gear is kinda funny.

[@JamesAllmond]

Somebody made a really good find! Being slightly dyslexic, looks normal to me! The wrong side of the road thing almost killed Winston Churchill when he looked right and not left and stepped into NYC traffic, and got hit.

[@frankmcgorman962]

I have friends with right hand drive cars, a Mini and a Wolseley 6 (drove that one). Visiting family in England, I have spent a lot of time in the left seat :). I did a short term mission in Zambia, where they drive on the left side of the road (as all of southern Africa does), and did a lot of driving there (in cars and on a motorbike). It does take a while to get used to sitting and driving on the opposite side.

[@aaronchamberssaabfan7397]

It's good to see you post a vid I was getting worried

[@waynecipriano7698]

They are ex mail carrier trucks u can own u have tu adjust yur self and always be alert

[@heathersanborn4914]

I dig the wheels and chrome (plastic or not) grill, I personally like it

[@connorm955]

I've seen a right hand drive Wrangler once.

[@jabbalechat7910]

The problem is you drive on the wrong side of the road in the US...

[@alanwbelcher]

Amesie, good to see you back, and hear that Mass. accent again. Imagine what that Jeep would be like out on 495! Happy Holidays!

[@gilberta458]

hahaha... welcome to my world

[@Badgertronix]

First car I ever drove was a RHD one of those back in 1992ish

[@stickmanbw]

Do you know where I can find s heater core for a 95 today in 2020?

[@JSchrumm]

Steering damper is pissing oil.

[@AmesiesCorner]

It's on the list for round two..

[@jackom11]

Great , thanks Paul. I also struggle driving in Europe with the wheel on the wrong side and driving on the wrong side. Getting in the wrong side is super irritating! best wishes UK mark

[@gordonhedgepeth8764]

That thing is so cool. Probably would get so much attention at the car show at the castle.

[@nicholaswieczorek4971]

It’s a mail jeep

[@tomcasale6070]

glad to see a new video!

[@ifga16]

I converted all three of my Volvos to side mount blinkers. 740, 940 and 240.

[@michaeljohnson1006]

If it's manual you will always change gear with the door handle lol

[@mcwillies2737]

Pretty damn cool Amesie!

[@robertsalerno6033]

Thats funny mate same thing happened to me when i lived in the USA (getting in on the wrong side LOL) and Im from Australia. Good to see you back and all the best for 2019 mate.

[@InternetDude]

There are 2 white XJs like that but LHD in my neighborhood however they’re both so rusty...

[@erikj.2066]

Middleton post office had one that I worked on a few times. Quite a trip to drive, and got plenty of of looks, especially driving up 95 on road tests.

[@jameseasterbrooks5363]

I was stationed in Japan in the late 90s and had to take my Japanese drivers’ test in a Nissan right hand drive pickup that had 5 on the Tree left hand shift! Now that was a awkward. You eventually get used to it and go to the right door, but for about a month your constantly getting in the left side and saying, “Aw, sh&$!”

[@delukxy]

I like these, they look just right. Still quite common here in the UK but not many really tidy ones. Diesel versions cheaper to run so proportionally more than gas versions have survived. This one is nice and would sell well here.

[@jime386]

Here in Montana, there is a thriving business in tiny right hand drive ex-Japanese trucks. Very cheap to buy. Nothing like reaching for the gear shift and grabbing the arm rest. Weirdest thing is that the radios tune between the frequencies we have in the USA

[@harrygatto]

Japan FM broadcast radio band is 76 to 91 MHz unlike most of the rest of the world.

[@juztyn00]

It's probably a rural delivery Mail Jeep, Chrysler sold RHD as an option just for that purpose..

[@deaf2819]

juztyn00 nah it’s a legit jdm Jeep or non usdm the thing has sidemarker lights

[@tomtheplummer7322]

My son is a postal carrier

[@InternetDude]

That thing is in fantastic condition 👍🏻

[@mikeizzano172]

Great shape for the year! As you always say,the north east takes its toll on all our stuff.drove wrong side drive when I was overseas in military.was a young guy of course but I scared myself as well as the natives ha ha!was the lane swap also,what an experience that was!

[@kay110]

When I first drove a vehicle with the driving position opposite to normal (while on holiday outside the UK), my worst fear was junctions and roundabouts being in the 'wrong' rotational direction. That took even more getting used to in my opinion. The car was manual transmission and the number of times you try and use the wrong hand to gear shift!!

[@Bobman84]

Haha, I've driven heaps of these in Australia, but never driven a left hand drive one.

[@jamespn]

Subaru sold right hand drive Legacy wagons for rural postal carriers.

[@connorm955]

The previous gen my parents had, had the gas tank in the same place.

[@mj_aussie_coaster_travels8310]

We get them all here in Australia too. I’m quietly looking for a mint one of these but most are trashed these days.

[@michaelb.5345]

An expert is just that, you are not as worried as you think you are...

[@yanni6556]

Got the same spec but in patriot blue in Australia. We seemed to get all the top options like selectrac as standard.

[@joescambait]

Mail Truck.. u could sell that for big bucks in NH

[@Toyota--Camry]

So was it sold new in Japan or imported later in its life?

[@AmesiesCorner]

Looks like it was sold new in Japan.

[@Toyota--Camry]

Amesie's Automotive Corner Wow! You can tell by the VIN number if it’s written in Japanese and English, same with the safety warnings written on the car.

[@robinscott9571]

Can you help me find a brain for my 1997 RHD Jeep Cherokee Japanese import?

[@dizzard111]

Nope. Full blowed

[@allalimohamed7256]

cv

[@dfdfkjkj7969]

these are mail delivery cherokees. no big deal here in new england......not special and im surprised you have not heard of these or seen one around before...

[@harrygatto]

No they are not, they are export models, usually with high spec which you don't get on a mail delivery vehicle.