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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Let me put it this way.
I'm at about 96k
The ball joints are starting to go. I'm told that they start going after 6 oil changes. But that's about $1400.00
My rear brakes are starting to get to that point. $600.00 at at least
Tires at 100k is obout $1000.00
Even though I change the oil regularly and do all of the other maintenance stuff, I'm starting to lose oil.
My emergency brake cable snapped the other day. That's going to be about 4 to 5 bills unless I do it myself.
I'm on my third windshield.
If I hadn't been taking care of it, this would be something that I deserve.
As it stands, I'm probably not going to get much for a trade in.
Because of the current economy I don't want to spend a ton on a car, probably in the 20 to 22 k range.
I'm kind of sad because I finished paying for the jeep last year and its nice not making payments.
But the mechanic said that if you want to be a dodge guy you have to reconcile that the suspensions don't last and they tend to have problems as they get older and they're expensive to maintain.
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That's the beauty of Wranglers, though, you can replace the entire suspension for less than $2000 and have something completely bulletproof that's light years ahead of stock performance - aftermarket support for Jeeps is insane. When stock parts fail, upgrade them and at the end of the year you'll be way ahead vs new car payments.