Jeep's... talk to me

[keith089]

Overpriced wrangler 4 door

 

[sparked1]

Overpriced, fugly wrangler 4 door

FTFY

 

[sparked1]

I never cared much for Jeeps. It is a Chrysler, after all. But my wife has always wanted one, so this year I bought her a 2018 Sahara 4-door for Christmas. She’s in love with it and I’m warming up to it. Of course, every female in the family is also in love with it and now wants a Jeep. Those things are total chic magnets.

 

[keith089]

Before that they were AMC, Ford Willis

 

[JeepAdventure247]

Thoughts on the 2020 Jeep Gladiator truck??

https://www.jeep.com/gladiator.html

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Don't buy the first year of a new release. Wait 2 years for them to iron out the kinks.
Like the new 2018 JL Wranglers... There were already frame weld issues on them.
Being the first kid on the block to have something new is all well and good but i'll someone else be the guinea pig for $35,000

 

[RSB]

Jeeps, talk to me about them.

I'm seriously contemplating a 2015-2017 4 door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited but have very little experience in the overall type of vehicle.

I already have 3 good working vehicles but I want something that I can just have fun in...

Before you buy go look on the web page of the NTSB. A world of information. I was going to buy a 2012 Jeep until I researched here.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2013/JEEP/WRANGLER%2520UNLIMITED/SUV/4WD

 

[RSB]

Before you buy go look on the web page of the NTSB. A world of information. I was going to buy a 2012 Jeep until I researched here.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2013/JEEP/WRANGLER%2520UNLIMITED/SUV/4WD

215 complaints on the power train alone.

 

[CliffB]

My 2 cents...
If you never intend on offroading/trail riding, don't bother getting a Rubicon.

If you intend on doing a lot of offroading and want to do a big lift and tires, don't bother getting a Rubicon. You can get the upgraded axle as an option on the sport.

Main advantage to Rubicon over sport is more rugged suspension and electronic sway bar disconnects. But.... If you are doing a lift, most of that is coming out anyway. So you just payed for a $6000 sticker on the hood and fancy stitching in the seats

if you want to get out on the trails but don't intend on majorly modding it, then I can see maybe getting a Rubicon.

Sport +$4000 in mods = more capable than Rubicon. And then you can spend the rest of what you saved on guns here on the ODT

A "friend" gave us crap for getting a Sport S instead of a Rubicon. As far as I'm concerned we didn't want leather in a Wrangler and we wouldn't have kept the wheels, bumpers, suspension, sway bar disconnects or a few other things so it seems silly to spend $45,000 on just a platform.

 

[CliffB]

215 complaints on the power train alone.

I'm terrible with percentages but it's all relative in the big picture.

"Record-setting figures are nothing new for the Wrangler, of course. Chrysler Group/FCA broke their annual Wrangler one-year-old sales record by 13,833 units in 2013 and then smashed that with a 19,826-unit, 13% improvement in the 2014 calendar year."

 

[hseII]

Low resale value.

This.

If it’s got Jeep on it, it cost a lot to buy & isn’t worth much after you own it.

A 2018 Cherokee Trail Hawk that we just had to have comes to mind.

10 months later, trade in was $6k less than we owned on it & we had employee pricing when we bought it.


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