T1B

Been looking for a respectable used Wrangler every since I sold my bike last fall. I think I have found one,
just about ready to pull the trigger on it. Hard Top Sahara, I6, 5sp, A/C. Will have to buy a soft top, as I want to
store the hard top 4 mos a year. Best Top seems to be the one that peeps recommend. What else do I need to know?

Mid-life crisis checklist for those keeping score:
Trans Am bought and sold
Boat bought and sold
Bike bought and sold
Jeep?

kcdave wrote: What else do I need to know?

They're pieces of shit.

If you get a jeep with a I6, it's gonna be pretty old. Nothing wrong with that though as it is a better engine (for a jeep) than the newer V-6s.

ok, I'll lay aside the first thought that came to mind in response...

bought a Cherokee Laredo back in the mid 90's with the express intent of climbing one of those 14'ers Tru fantasizes about, except with 4 wheel drive. Drove up the side of some mountain outside Leadville Colorado, wife and 8 year old daughter unwilling passengers. Made it up to some pass around 13,600 ft or so and there were a few other tricked out Jeeps up there already, with winches and stuff, laughing at me.

Turned right around and made my way carefully back down these narrow switchbacks, with an hysterical wife now ready to get out and walk, fantasies fulfilled.

Ever since The Garbage Corporation took them over in '87, they are the biggest pieces of crap on the road.

Not "among the biggest pieces of crap"... pretty much THE biggest pieces of crap.

But hey, lesbians like them, so you have that going for you.

And you obviously haven't researched the subject much, since no one on earth would tell you they're anything but the world's biggest crap... but you're the guy who pays money to go hand wash his car at a car wash, and to say you're "of dubious intelligence" would be understating the dumbfuckery.

At 45, I don't really suffer from any sort of midlife crises... if my brain is going that way, I don't buy a car or motorcycle... I just fuck more. But then again, I'm good looking, intelligent, and funny, putting me at least 2-up on you. You should probably stick with the cars and bikes.

Real shocking that the board's latest pinata is from none other than...

KC.

Dinsdale wrote:Ever since The Garbage Corporation took them over in '87, they are the biggest pieces of crap on the road.

Not "among the biggest pieces of crap"... pretty much THE biggest pieces of crap.

Range Rover might have something to say about that, but yeah, pretty much.

Van wrote: Range Rover might have something to say about that, but yeah, pretty much.

I can't really argue that. Maybe call it a draw.

Now, my first thought...

kcdave wrote:...peeps recommend. What else do I need to know?

In Jim Rome/kcdork speak, "Jeep Guy" comes right after "Softball Guy".

In T1B speak, now would be a good time to drive your sled off a 14'er.

Mrs. Rumps and I own a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. We love it. Fun ride and no problems yet.

NASCAR Fan, Harley Poser Douche, Muscle Car Dork Extremis, KC IKYABWAI Meme Guy...and now KC Scott wants to add American Off-Road P.O.S. Me Too Clown to his resume?

Dude, I bow before your Complete Boxed Set of Wish My Dick Worked homeopathic bromides. Please tell me you also have or at least had a killer mullet.

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps and I own a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. We love it. Fun ride and no problems yet.

~cue the obligatory 'need for long-travel suspension' jokes~

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps and I own a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. We love it. Fun ride and no problems yet.

for that hilly, snowy terrain around Houston?

Van wrote:NASCAR Fan, Harley Poser Douche, Muscle Car Dork Extremis, KC IKYABWAI Meme Guy...and now KC Scott wants to add American Off-Road P.O.S. Me Too Clown to his resume?

Dude, I bow before your Complete Boxed Set of Wish My Dick Worked homeopathic bromides. Please tell me you also have or at least had a killer mullet.

Dave, Scott... same concept.

War Wagon wrote:

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps and I own a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. We love it. Fun ride and no problems yet.

for that hilly, snowy terrain around Houston?

Lock'er into 4L to climb those offramps.

Dinsdale wrote:

Van wrote:NASCAR Fan, Harley Poser Douche, Muscle Car Dork Extremis, KC IKYABWAI Meme Guy...and now KC Scott wants to add American Off-Road P.O.S. Me Too Clown to his resume?

Dude, I bow before your Complete Boxed Set of Wish My Dick Worked homeopathic bromides. Please tell me you also have or at least had a killer mullet.

Dave, Scott... same concept.

Oops.

Van wrote: Oops.

No worries... they're nearly interchangeable.

mvscal wrote:

kcdave wrote: What else do I need to know?

They're pieces of shit.

Lesbians apparently like them. And Subaru Foresters too

Cuda wrote:

mvscal wrote:

kcdave wrote: What else do I need to know?

They're pieces of shit.

Lesbians apparently like them. And Subaru Foresters too

As a resident of Lesbian Ground Zero, it seems the Prius is gaining a little ground, but not quite like the Wrangler and Foresters. Prius is still dominated by 60-ish over-the-hill yuppies.

What a bummer -- the Prius is actually a cool sled... but the fan club is deplorable. Sullied the name of a great around-town car. (Where I live apparently has by far the highest hybrids-per-capita... big shocker there.)

Although, I recently saw a big redneck jump out of a Prius to road-rage some fool... I had to pull over I was so tickled.

Dinsdale wrote:As a resident of Lesbian Ground Zero,

You stayed in Wag's guest room?
:o

Dinsdale wrote: ...I was so tickled.

Most of Daughter Wagon's "room-mates" are...
Make sure you wash it off before you slide it back under the bed.

Subarus will always dominate anywhere that has to deal with a lot of rain, snow and ice. Go somewhere like Truckee or Lake Tahoe and you'll see so many Subarus that you'll think they're Toyota.

So, no one else here has a Wrangler, right?

Van wrote:Subarus will always dominate anywhere that has to deal with a lot of rain, snow and ice. Go somewhere like Truckee or Lake Tahoe and you'll see so many Subarus that you'll think they're Toyota.

Maybe on the left coast, but not everywhere with rain, snow or ice. Very few in the northern mts of New Mexico, damn near none in Wyoming and no more than a handful in Boston/Providence. Agree they are seemingly everywhere north of SF to the Canadian border.

Around here I believe the cops encourage putting each and everyone of them (7) into the wall on the freeway.

Papa Willie wrote:

Van wrote:Subarus will always dominate anywhere that has to deal with a lot of rain, snow and ice. Go somewhere like Truckee or Lake Tahoe and you'll see so many Subarus that you'll think they're Toyota.

Makes sense. I've actually always seen nothing but a lot of good reviews on the Forester, though I probably couldn't squeeze my right foot into one...

You would fit just fine in a Forester. Infinite headroom, plenty of legroom, and with the new redesign you also have more hiproom.

You would also make a fine lesbian in the Melissa Etheridge mold, so you're good to go.

Van wrote:Melissa Etheridge mold

That's gotta be some nasty growth.

Van wrote:Subarus will always dominate anywhere that has to deal with a lot of rain, snow and ice. Go somewhere like Truckee or Lake Tahoe and you'll see so many Subarus that you'll think they're Toyota.

I've never seen a Forrester in my neck of the woods but maybe they're more popular with folks living in the city who deal with rain, snow, and ice. You're far more likely to see F-150s and Silverados in the rural areas.

KC Scott wrote:

Mace wrote: You're far more likely to see F-150s, Silverados AND TUNDRAS in the rural areas.

FTFY

I've seen some Tundras but they're a very small part of the truck population in my part of the state. One of my insurance agents drives one but I don't know of anyone else.

kcdave wrote:So, no one else here has a Wrangler, right?

you should of PM'd Wags's daughter

Cuda wrote:

kcdave wrote:So, no one else here has a Wrangler, right?

you should of PM'd Wags's daughter

ouch

Smackie Chan wrote:

Van wrote:Melissa Etheridge mold

That's gotta be some nasty growth.

Damn 'u.'

Actually....

kcdave wrote:So, no one else here has a Wrangler, right?

Had one long ago. It was a piece of shit. Are you stupid or something?

Van wrote:You would also make a fine lesbian in the Melissa Etheridge mold, so you're good to go.

No way. Spray strikes me as more of a Rosie O'Donnell sort of lesbo.

LS, you are full of shit. All of NE is full of Subies, including Boston. I think roughly 79% of the vehicles in Vermont are Outbacks. The rest are old pickups owned by farmers.

mvscal wrote:Had one long ago. It was a piece of shit. Are you stupid or something?

Did you see the motorcycle thread? He's not concerned with function but "looking cool." Now all he has to do is get a buzzcut and grow a vagina and he'll look badass in no time.

Fuck you MGO I already have close to a buzz cut.

As always 30+ posts in, and has nothing to do with the topic hand. As of the moment, not likely to get the Wrangler that I was looking at.
$1000 bucks apart, and neither I nor the owner are likely to budge.

I don't recall Jeeps being lezbo rides around here. Seems always to be Pathfinders, and Mazda Pickups.

kcdave wrote:Fuck you MGO I already have close to a buzz cut and a vag.

ftfy, nc.

They aren't lezzie cars around here. My son got one about 3 years ago, brand new and has had zero trouble with it. It would not be my choice of car, but once in awhile we take it out cruising with the top off and sometimes the doors. It's fun.

One thing you should know: Jeep wrangler people have a secret club. They give each other a special wave on the roads when they pass each other.

Does it involve the flicking of tongues and the index and middle fingers positioned in the shape of a 'V'?

kcdave wrote: $1000 bucks apart, and neither I nor the owner are likely to budge.

He wants $500, you want $500 to haul it off?