My kids say I'm too old for a new Jeep Wrangler

[Anonymous]

Who cares what your brats think. Are they paying for the car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares what your brats think. Are they paying for the car?

+1.

[Anonymous]

https://www.aarp.org/auto/car-maintenance-safety/info-2016/10-cheapest-cars-to-insure.html


Looks good to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re either Jeep people or you aren’t. DH cried real tears when we sold his 1999 Wrangler last year. I was pretty close to it myself. We still have our 2011 four door family one, and we’ll get another 2-door eventually, when the kids are out of car seats. It’s actually kind of annoying that they’re suddenly for rich bros and sorority girls.

Do you take it off road?

[Anonymous]

God there are some gross people on this forum. Buy the Jeep. Drive straight to Corolla, NC, and drive on the beach the the VA line. You’ll have the Jeep the rest of your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re either Jeep people or you aren’t. DH cried real tears when we sold his 1999 Wrangler last year. I was pretty close to it myself. We still have our 2011 four door family one, and we’ll get another 2-door eventually, when the kids are out of car seats. It’s actually kind of annoying that they’re suddenly for rich bros and sorority girls.

Do you take it off road?

At the beach, yes. But that’s not a requirement. Don’t be a Jeep snob.

[Anonymous]

We have a wrangler and it is actually mine (wife) from long before I met my DH. It is the best. We also have other cars, a typical family suv and a sports car, and we all love thejeep. Get it! You will love it!

[Anonymous]

We live in CHS, have a 4 door wrangler. Lots of our friends have the same car. With that said we are not driving long disatances so don’t mind that it’s not the most comfortable

[Anonymous]

Half the dads in our neighborhood bought one when they turned 40 or 45 or whatever. There are kids with them too, yes, but tons of dads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't...

1. It is an objectively terrible car

2. Assuming you're a 40-something mom from the burbs it's going to look like you're trying way too hard

Lots of moms I know have these and they love their cars. No apologies.

[Anonymous]

A neighbor just got one and I think she is going through a mid-life crisis.

She is around 55 and kind of looks a bit ridiculous driving the thing.

Plus she cannot seem to park it which is annoying to others - so there is that.

[Anonymous]

All of my teen's rich friends have these. Especially the white girls. The white teen girls LOVE a Jeep Wrangler in White for some reason.

Their HS parking lot is a sea of Jeeps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It has a very high repair rate. Are you planning on 4-wheeling with it? If not, get a more reliable AWD vehicle like a Subaru.

I'm a first time Subaru owner, and I'm getting absolutely sodomized in the last two years fixing my Crosstrek.

It's a 2013, I've got 66,000 miles, and I've had to replace 3 wheel hub bearings at $590 each, both front axles at $700 per axle, and now I think my transmission is starting to go, which is out of warranty now and I hear costs like $7,000.

This car is a POS. I'll NEVER own another one.

[Anonymous]

It's a gas guzzling status symbol for people who are insecure and need to tie their identification up in their vehicle.

Of course that applies to a lot of cars not just this model.

But know that the many folks who are a bit more secure in themselves regard you as a fool and those of us who care about the planet consider you arrogant - but you do you! The planet is burning regardless right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It has a very high repair rate. Are you planning on 4-wheeling with it? If not, get a more reliable AWD vehicle like a Subaru.

I'm a first time Subaru owner, and I'm getting absolutely sodomized in the last two years fixing my Crosstrek.

It's a 2013, I've got 66,000 miles, and I've had to replace 3 wheel hub bearings at $590 each, both front axles at $700 per axle, and now I think my transmission is starting to go, which is out of warranty now and I hear costs like $7,000.

This car is a POS. I'll NEVER own another one.

My 2006 outback that I bought 1 yr old with 30,000 miles left me on the side of a mountain pass in 2011 with 96,000. I had taken it to the shop several times because of a weird noise that apparently only I could hear. The day it left me stranded in the pitch dark on a 27 degree evening, I had literally just picked it up from the shop again with a diagnosis of "we can't hear anything." I had also asked them to replace the interior light bulbs, all of which were burnt out. I provided the bulbs but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to remove the covers. They didn't. Sitting in the dark and cold for an hour and a half waiting for a tow and a ride was super awesome. They said it would cost $5000 for a new engine since the car was too new for a used one to be readily available. Never again Subaru. Never again.