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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kinda funny all the haters. Was just on a Wrangler group on Facebook.  A insurance adjuster was saying how well Wranglers hold up during accidents. It's the only car he will buy.  While a firefighter commented that he will always drive a Wrangler because they hold up so well when hit by other vehicles.  This might by why they are cheap to insure.  As a insurance agent told me when I asked him about a high performance Volvo.  He said it was cheaper to buy and insure a Corvette.  Why??  Because people that cant drive buy them. People that get into accidents buy Volvos.

I'd love to hear what actually makes Wranglers unreliable!! Not much to go wrong with them unless you get a hybrid one. Or beat on it hard off road. [/quote]

OP here. I’m not a hater. Just looking to get facts to make a decision.  Not questioning the reliability so much as asking how safe a wrangler is for a brand new driver.   The responses seem to fall into (1) safe but not a great choice for a new driver based on how it drives and (potentially) a lack of driver-centric safety features that other cars provide standard, (2) you’re a fun-hating wimp for even asking this question, (3) you’re a fun-hating wimp for even asking this question, but the more I think about it I wouldn’t get one for my new driver, and (4) why do you hate Wranglers so much.

So, all in all, reasonably helpful for any number of reasons.  [/quote]

The answers you should be paying most attention to are the ones that say “depends on the kid”. Because that’s the deciding factor in whether it's a safe option or not. Some kids could drive a C8 Corvette as their first car and never have a problem or drive it unsafely or irresponsibly. Other kids would still find a way to be dangerous in a Volvo diesel station wagon. Only you know your kid. I’m a volunteer fire fighter in MoCo, and I’ve seen more kids wreck Honda Civic coupes than any other type of car. Most were hurt, a few were killed. But it’s a Honda Civic coupe so often it’s practically a meme in the fire service and ems responder profession. I’ve seen lots of car crashes, probably hundreds in 15 years I’ve been a volunteer.  I’ve only ever responded to a single call for a badly crashed Jeep. It was T-boned by another car which ran through a red light and broadsided it at a pretty good speed. The Jeep did in fact roll over after being hit in the side. It rolled all the way over, actually, and was back on its wheels. At the time I remember being impressed about two things on the Jeep. 1) the roll cage that Jeep Wrangler models have is able to deal with a rollover crash really well. It is seriously strong and easily supports the weight of the vehicle upside down during a crash. 2) it had some type of rock skid guard running board things along the sides of the body just underneath the doors. They were made of very substantial steel apparently, because they completely prevented the T-boning car from intruding into the passenger compartment on the right side of the vehicle. Not all Jeeps have these I’ve noticed, but they all should because it was quite impressive. The driver and passenger in the Jeep had both self-extricated after the crash, and both had neck injuries (whiplash basically) from the side impact, which would be expected in that type of crash, as well as the driver probably having some cracked ribs on the right side from their seatbelt, which is also normal for a T-bone crash. The passenger was otherwise ok despite being on the side that took the hit, which really surprised us at first but after looking at the skid guard thing it made a little more sense. The front airbags did not go off, which is normal for that type of crash in some vehicles, since it wasn’t a frontal crash. There were no side airbags apparently, because if there were they would’ve gone off in this type of crash.  The Jeep was actually driveable afterwards, because the driver moved it out of the intersection and out of traffic. The windshield was badly smashed and the convertible top was torn and ripped, but the roll cage held up fine. It had body damage on both sides where it rolled, but the side windows were all intact and all the doors still opened, which was also surprising to me at the time. So there’s a real world observation of a Jeep crash from maybe 6-7 years ago. [/quote]

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