Faults:

I have not had any mechanical incidents with this vehicle. I change the oil every three thousand miles. The interior has held up well.

General Comments:

This is a nice running vehicle. I have pulled a cargo trailer over nine hundred miles with no problems. I have thirty inch tires and I average twenty two miles on the highway. City driving is around fourteen to seventeen. It is a little noisy on the highway, but I did not purchase it for comfort. Off road ability is great! It will get you in and out of most places.

Faults:

I have yet to have any major problems with my Jeep. Routine maintenance seems to be the key. Change the oil, clean the fuel system, etc.

General Comments:

When I initially purchased my Jeep (TJ) it had 31" tires and low miles. It still had the factory top, but also tinted windows. It also had the factory sub-woofer in the center console.

The ride can be noisy at higher speeds, solution: turn up the music. The ride is pretty rough and rugged, but it's a Jeep. It is designed for hard work.

Since Jeep came out back in the day of the Willy's, there have been some changes, but most are for performance and not comfort.

If you want a nice roomy SUV and the comfort of these new SUVs that "handle like a car" do not get a Jeep.

As for power, the 4-cylinder is not bad. For off-road, it is more effective than the 6-cylinder because of the 4:10 gearing vs. the 3:78 (I believe). It's not the fastest, but it will get you where you are going. I run 33" tires with a 4.5" lift on my 4-banger with no problems.

Also, if there was ever a car/truck/SUV to customize, Jeeps are it. There are hundreds of companies that specialize in Jeeps with thousands of parts to make it YOUR Jeep.

Faults:

First engine went out at 39,000 miles. It spun a bearing on the crank shaft.

Dealer replaced it technically out of warranty because I had changed the oil every 3,000 miles.

Clutch went out at 50,000 miles. It cost over $900 US to fix and most of that was parts.

The second engine went out at 60,000 miles. Dealer would not replace because it was 13 months & 20,000 miles since the last replaced engine. I still changed the oil every 3,000 miles. I replaced the engine with a salvage yard motor with roughly the same mileage. So far it has been working fine.

Catalytic converter went out at around 70,000 miles causing the check engine light to stay on.

Around the same time as the catalytic converter went out the oil pressure guage has stopped reporting correctly. It just goes straight to full pressure as soon as the vehicle is started.

Aside from the abysmal reliability of this vehicle and high repair costs, it is extremely expensive to drive.

It is also NOT a road vehicle. Even with the hard top, wind noise is excruciating and it exhausts you to drive with high wind at highway speeds.

General Comments:

Off road performance is exemplary. I had a blast the few times I took it off road. I stopped taking it off-road after the first engine went out thinking it was something I had inadvertently caused.

I discovered this not to be the case after the second engine.