[wolfen1086]

my oldest son 's girl friend has one of those square Jeep Liberty, I think its a 2014 it replaces an older 2011 Liberty she had that leaked more oil out of places it shouldn't leak from
the one she has NOW has the 3.6 and the engine light stays on for various amounts of time, my son has had his computer hooked up to it so much he might as well leave it hooked up LOL TODAY'S issue is the oil leak from the plastic oil filter housing, he found an aluminum one cheaper than the stock plastic replacement, but again she is driving the chevy they use to haul trash away around again, until the Chinese oil filter housing gets here, its being shipped from China LOL

And yet my rode hard put away wet 1993 Dakota STILL runs fine

 

[Corday]

The last Jeep Liberty was 2012. Hopefully she doesn't have a 2012 which encountered numerous problems.

 

[wolfen1086]

that's what I meant 2012 not 14
Either way its a rolling pos, that gives my son reason to get out of the house cause I WILL NOT let that thing be worked on here LOL

 

[MPR]

I always wanted a Jeep as a kid but never could afford one. This was back in the days when four-wheel-drives were pretty rare. The closest I came was a '51 Willys pickup but it never ran much. I still kick myself for selling the thing before I got good enough at fixing trucks to have actually gotten it running right.

I drove a few "jeeps" in the Army but not nearly enough for my liking. Those independent-suspension M151s were death traps though. You couldn't feel yourself going over until it was too late and none that I saw had anything like a roll bar. They might have retrofitted them later on though.

I've rarely had Tacomas break down and have driven them on trails where the jeeps were getting stuck. My current Tacoma is an '06 and it hasn't had a single thing go wrong with it yet, which is sort of rare even for a Toyota. I still like the "look" of Jeeps though. My brother has an FJ Cruiser that both of his girls drove in college; they are in their mid-30s now. That thing has the "look" of a Jeep with the drive-train of a Tacoma and is actually pretty safe, what with all of its safety pillars. It's hard to see out the back though.

Several years back, I read a Consumers Reports yearly rating of the trucks that had come out that year. Back then, the Tacoma rated an 82. The Wrangler that came out that year rated a 5 (yes, five). I believe the Wrangler is the only vehicle ever to only get a one-star safety rating in crash tests.

 

[wolfen1086]

I bought my wife a 20011 Jeep Wrangler for 6k was 7 but the idiot sales girl took 1k off because the A/C didn't work, I looked under the hood and there was no A/C installed, a soft top was about $450 back then in the early 2000's but fram oil filter and the engine burnt up, I replaced the engine and it never ran as fast as it did before, or as good, the transmission slipped in third both diffs were worn out and I blew teh head gasket about 11/2 a mile form where we live now, found the Dakota on offerup, a guy in Emporia wanted to build a Jeep instead of a dodge, well the jeep needed an engine, trans, and both diffs, 8k total just in parts, the Dakota needed and IAC valve 02 sensor and two front hubs, total from Rock Auto, was $187 the Dakota was supposed to be a temp vehicle till I found something better, that was 6 years ago and I keep fixing the piece of junk LOL

 

[MPR]

Sometimes "junky" vehicles sort of hang in there. My sister bought an old RAM pickup with a couple hundred thousand miles on it. It's pretty much a piece of crap and she's always having to have something fixed on it. However, it never does actually break down completely and she's had to for over ten years now.

 

[Corday]

Jeep just came out with a new in-line 6 and called it the Hurricane. My 1965 CJ5 had a Hurricane 4. It didn't do well in snow. The 4 wheel drive wasn't the problem. I had to use two cans of dry gas per tank to stop carb from icing. In the summer vapor lock was the culprit.

 

[MPR]

I had to use two cans of dry gas per tank to stop carb from icing. In the summer vapor lock was the culprit.

The summer I graduated from high school I got a job working for a farmer. He had a Dodge pickup with a diesel tank in back to fuel the tractors. If you drove that thing to the field you had to make sure that you stopped it where you wanted it to stay because it would vapor lock and not start again for an hour.

 

[wolfen1086]

mine had open differentials I found out the hard way when I got stuck because in 4 low only two wheels turned, the Dakota has a hellofa 4x4 system, both rear axles were replaces because It was a dana 35c, now its a posi, the front has lunchbox locker that is set to run like an open on pavement and lock only when needed