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Belbo, A Jeep is a Jeep is a Jeep! buying a Jeep is one of the greatest love hate relationships you will ever have. Don't want to kick any Bee's Nest around here but there are a few things that most just do not want to talk about when it comes to owning a Jeep.
Yes they are a great off road and bad weather condition ride. You will get pretty much any where you wnat to go in a Jeep but you have to know how to drive first. A bad small stocker Jeep will go places a Monster lifted big stupid tired Jeep can not depending on the drivers.
Are they going to break? All automotive type stuff breaks! The Jeep due to the nature of its use is going to break more than many other ride choices. However the Jeep is not to hard to work on and you can save a ton a money by not letting the dealers ever do any thing to you beloved Jeep!
As far as trouble shooting and repairs to a Jeep the best place to go is here at Jeepz.com! Just post what it is or is not doing and someone here has had the same problem at some point. Some one knows a way to repair or replace the problem unit with an upgrade.
Now here comes the bee's nest part (this is tug kicking the nest) If you are going to buy a Jeep Wrangler or CJ go for the simplest Jeep you can find! Auto trannys and A/C and all the soft parts that have been placed on a Jeep over the past few years are just not Jeepliticaly Correct! In my humble oppion! If you want a soft plush ride buy one if you want a jeep get a bare bones kick a little tail rough and ready JEEP!
They are suppost to ride rougher than a car and be drafty and have a few dents and dings in em! You are suppost to freeze a little in the winter time and roast in the summer a little. (maintaining a smile at all times is required, and ez to do) Any time something breaks you never just fix it you mod it into a better that new version so it does not do it again or at least from the same stress or pressure.
So in a nut shell A Jeep is a Jeep is a Jeep. It will never be a car, truck, SUV, or any thing else. Chrome and shinny paint and stereos and dvds and even bling bling wheels do not make it any thing other than a Jeep. You will have work on it and stuff will break. but you never had a more fun to fix, drive, and break ride in your life. Often Imitated but never duplicated it is nothing more than a Jeep.
So If you wish to know more about a Jeep just buy one and drive it a year. You can all most always get your money out of it and it can be your jeep. Your jeep cause as soon as you buy it you will start the process of maken it your. EZ to modifie and the process never ends after that.
I could pick my favorite jeep modle and start in to changing it. Do everything I could think of prior to driven it and with in a week after the dream machine was done I would be looking to change something.
Good luck potential Jeeper! Good look if you do or if you do not buy the jeep. Cause if you do you will regreat the day you made the down payment for the rest of your life. If you do not you will never be happy till you do. You have been bitten and there is not a cure known to man.
Last and not least you are going to get a family with your jeep should you get one. A brother hood of jeeper not leaven the lady jeepers out just a figure of speach. Many of my best jeep brothers are jeep ladys! ok! but you are required to wave at all jeeps as you pass on the road. You are required to speak to all jeepers you meet in the stores. You are requiresd to park beside or at least near all jeeps visiting the same places you visit.
So beware all that buy a Jeep it more than just a way to go to the slopes! tug
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