Trying out a free trial - so far, I get this -
Nice truck you have there Scott…. Is that a diesel?I daily drove mine for about 25k miles and had no complaints. My wife daily drove it for about 10k miles and it made her start liking the JT….subjective of course, but we love it all around!
I certainly agree with you…the JT shines off-road as advertised. It’s an amazing machine and kind of leaves me in awe sometimes. I can’t wait to get back out on some trails. It’s been too long, but there aren’t too many places near me left to explore. I’ll have to start going further out once my son is a little older.
It’s the best vehicle I’ve ever owned and I’ll likely never get rid of it. We’re throwing a rooftop tent on it soon, and we’ll create many great Jeep memories with our son. Adventure is always worth it.
Thank you! It’s a gasser. Diesel would be nice though ha
Thanks for this. A daily driver sub-forum is a great idea. I'm shopping for a new pickup right now. My heart says JT, my head (and my family) says Canyon/Taco/Ranger. I work from home, drive mostly when I want to, not need to, and can use a pickup bed. If I was buying for needs I'd get a used Corolla. This will mostly be an on-road truck but having the capability could lead me to a new hobby... As for price, everything I see right now says I can get a Mojave X for less than a mid-level Taco, a Raptor or an AT4X. A Willys, which is what I want, then becomes one of the most affordable mid-sizers.
I more than understand all the critiques of this vehicle but for me its absolutely what I wanted. I came from a manual mazda 3 (that I had 10k into the stereo) that I drove for nearly 10 years and absolutely loved until i was tboned and rolled. While I loved that car I wanted more space to go to the beach and pack up my/our things when taking friends and also something capable in more than on road scenarios that didnt break the bank. Ive always loved trucks and jeeps but they were WAYY too expensive at that time for me to justify it and I unfortunately jumped in a cx30. Not having manual took all the fun and joy out of driving for me and I found myself upset that I didnt have the room I wanted, wasnt enjoying it and still paying for a car I didnt love. So I spent a few months looking for a manual truck, calling around, negotiating and the gladi was exactly what I wanted checking all my boxes. I dont tow anything and wont for any time in the foreseeable future and it does everything I need it to do and then some. Not only that but it genuinely brings joy to my day and thats priceless.You've had it for a while, or you purchased it a few months back. You feel like you got a pretty good deal, and that is a super nice feeling, no doubt. But as you try to use it, baby it, show it off and just be that proud jeep owner some of the little things you could do in your former rig are becoming annoying, bothersome and at times irritating. Auto wipers go haywire..... once in a great while, parking assist is a pain when you're allowed to enter the automatic car wash. You feel guilty scuffing up the bed when you role up that spiffy and shinny tonneau cover to put a Coscto size TP pack back there. Maybe it seems a little noisy for those Highway trips, and once those slick leather seats get broke in, I'm sure they'll be alot more comfy for the spouse, so they quit their belly aching and you can get back to enjoying your favorite ride. Then there's that thirsty gas tank, damn, 22 gallons? Why on earth is it so big?. It is super fun to drive around town, til we all get to that little parking spot at the restaurant, but at least the doors are small so it is easy to get out. I'd back into more spots but the license plate glare blinds my backup cam, sometimes rendering it useless. I'd pop the top on some of these beautiful evenings, but It's a preschooler's jigsaw saw puzzle, heaven for bid if you scratch it or your spotless bed by securing it there. Hmmm.............time to electronically make your payment (pause) ah. I wonder what the resale value is on a used JT? Hmmm, wow I wasn't expecting that, next year will be better. I'll give it a cool name ( I can't name mine her because it was deemed political, it's not, but rules are rules) and that is nice, jeeps can be personalized, which is super cool. Awesome color highlights, sweet rims, maybe even some off-road doors. But the off-road doors come with an uneasy feeling when you can't see it, no? So the expense of owning what you thought was going to be your dream Jeep/Truck/Vehicle isn't all that anymore. JT's get traded in after a year or two, very often by individuals with all these concerns. I see it here on the forum all the time, I live a life and don't camp on here like some of my haters,(S.P. for one) because I read about all the petty problems (1st world problems I might add) and I watch many of the new owners, post their hello's, like a few posts, attempt a few posts, take some super nice pics of them and their shiny new JT's and then fade into oblivion after a few months, or a year or two. Its definitely disheartening.
But wait, did you know there is a section of this forum that has longtime JT owners? Individuals that love their JT's and post regularly, and very positive posts. It's not the Daily drivers, there is no channel on this forum for Daily Drivers, and for good reason, the post would be of nothing but short term owners, complaining about their JTR always having some irritating discomfort and some spontaneous intermittent problem that is always grinding on them, like a tooth ache. I'm probably going to sound like a broken record to my haters with this next statement. Build your JT for adventures, and ditch it as a daily driver, its not only good at adventures, its great for them. The memories you make with it, when off pavement will have you falling in lust with it all over again. If you are still considering it your "Pavement Princes" and your adventures stop at Walgreens, then I predict once you aren't financially upside down in it, you will trade it in and you will be amongst the group when jeep talk arises, you will say "been there, done that" and "its not all that its cracked up to be." All I can say is, how unfortunate, not for you, but for the wasted life of a daily driver Jeep JT. I,m sure everyone has their opinion on this post, but the true jeep lovers, the true JT lovers get it, and the ones building their ride as they can afford it are the owners I can't wait to meet and share some real adventures with. I started with 33's and the mopar 2" leveling kit. Off to Ouray Colorado I went, and I did all the BOH trails there, and the true meaning of the jeep seed was planted. I could write more, ramble on, but I won't. It doesn't take much to get you out and off the pavement, treat your JT like a Lambo, take it out for jeep stuff and it will pay you back with many smiles, drive it as a DD, the lust will evaporate and you will move on with your vehicle evolution, and thats your loss.
See ya on the trails.
(I'll re-read, correct and edit this at a later time, but thanks for reading)
