>>18122812If you want to get a jeep:
Buy only a model made after 2011. DO NOT BUY A 2011 OR OLDER.
The engines on those fucking suck, and break and leak and fuck up your day. They only last 120,00 miles, on average. The engines on the 2012 and up, however, are fucking godlike and will last longer than you.
Also, check for rust under the car. Surface rust and grime is okay, but if you look down there and you see parts of the metal eaten away, don't buy it.
And finally, jeeps have a problem called 'the death wobble.' named the death wobble because it will kill you if you aren't a good driver. The death wobble makes the front of your car wobble violently everytime you hit a pothole. The suspension just keeps going, and you steering wheel shakes itself. It's terrifying, the first time, but you have to keep your steering wheel straight.
The death wobble is a problem in the steering and suspension. It's a different reason for every jeep that gets it, but essentially it's an undetectable problem, and so a mechanic has to swap different parts of it, until it goes away.
But if you can find a 2012+ jeep that hasn't been:
-left outside in the rain
-taken offroading (Cause of death wobble, imo)
-driven on salty, snowy winter roads
then it will last forever.
If you don't want a wrangler sport, which is a cheaper, mass produced wranger, you could get a wrangler rubicon with a dead motor, and have a mechanic put one in for cheaper. They are cheap engines. Jeeps are always broken, because people just engine swap them until they are bored of them, upon which they sell the chassis.
Fun cars.
