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whartungyesterday at 6:17 PM1 replyview on HN

To be fair, I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was the first year of their then new model rollout for the GC. It was (as I understand it) the last of the Mercedes JGCs.

I love this thing, it's a "cold dead hands" kind of car for me. Only has 120k-ish miles on it.

I won't say it's my last car ever, I just have a hard time visualizing swapping it out for anything.

It starts, all the buttons work, it's cosmetically 95%. The single biggest issue is that last year it was down for a couple of months simply because of parts availability. It's not unreliable, but it's swapped a few things (water pump, radiator, A/C has had work twice, guess it's a bit notorious in the community). Purchased in 2013, it's a 12 year old car.

But waiting months for suspension components (air suspension, which I adore) was a real drag. Even with a dealer supplied rental.

That would be the thing that sends me over the edge long term, I think.

It'll be a shame when it happens, I love the car.

The dealer wants to buy it every time I take it in for routine maintenance.


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sudonanohomeyesterday at 6:38 PM

So your 12 yrs old truck with only 120k miles got:

- radiator replaced

- water pump replaced

- AC repaired (twice)

- suspension rebuilt

And that's considered to be a "good" truck? Good lord I'm happy we don't get such garbage sold here in Europe

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