re: A Question for the Lounge’s Car Experts

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Buy an xterra, 4runner, or old Suzuki sidekick instead. 

You'll thank me in two years with zero repair costs as opposed to the 1k a year chrysler budget for repairs.

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This. This. THIS.

Jeeps have absolutely 100% earned their reputation as pieces of shite mechanically. I had one for a short time and it only had 50k miles on it when I bought it off the lot, got to roughly 65k before it had a $2000 transmission failure.

The fiance got a 2016 Cherokee Trailhawk (against every bit of my judgement and advice) brand new, we researched and everyone SWORE Jeep had gotten their "issues" worked out.

The thing spent 2 weeks in the shop a month after she bought it with a transmission software issue that made it just randomly choose gears, they never could actually solve the problem. The windshield seal leaked and ruined the headliner with roughly 10k miles on it. The shift lever and control module around it broke with roughly 20k miles on it.

It ate all terrain tires for breakfast because the alignment was totally fricked from the get-go. The interior appeared nice but was extremely cheap, stuff regularly broke, sagged, or warped. It ended up having to go BACK to the shop for yet another transmission issue with under 50k miles on it. At that point we were done.

Just don't do it. There's better, more reliable "all terrain SUVs" you can invest in. Get a FJ Cruiser, Land Cruiser, Xterra, 4runner, ANYTHING ELSE.