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10/26/2016 at 15:19 • Filed to: None
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"and 100 more" (nth256)
10/26/2016 at 15:19 • Filed to: None | 0
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Backstory:
Jeep FWD-5-door-hatchback (aka “Patriot”), 140k miles, requires mucho shifting effort all of a sudden (it has a tru man-transmission, for those keeping score). Also, other issues, but those aren’t pertinent, other than to illustrate that it’s falling apart.
Dropped off Jeep Pieceofshit for clutch bleed this morning, now needs new master cylinder.
Coincidentally, I took the day off work yesterday to trade it in, only to be denied by dealers because I want beer on a 70% Isopropyl budget.
UPDATE : Not JUST the master cylinder, apparently! They suspect something else is worn as well.
Party-vi
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10/26/2016 at 15:36 |
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Master cylinder should be cheap and easy to do. Sorry about your Jeep luck
Wacko
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10/26/2016 at 15:43 |
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what did you expect when owning a dodge caliber with lipstick
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> Party-vi
10/26/2016 at 15:44 |
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Yeah, it’s not too bad, but i have to wait a day for the part to come in from Houston. Plus, in my infinite wisdom, I chose a shop next to my office to do the work... so I have to rent a car to get home tonight as well.
Just a lot of surprises, is all.
Sam
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10/26/2016 at 15:49 |
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It’s... a Jeep thing?
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Sam
10/26/2016 at 15:51 |
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It’s a MOPAR thing. Jeep’s pretty good when they’re allowed to be Jeep, which I guess they haven’t since the demise of the AMC I6.
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> Wacko
10/26/2016 at 15:52 |
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I expected very little, and it has exceeded my expectation.
It’s been good to me, for the most part. I will go as far as to say it doesn’t deserve the level of hate it gets. As a toaster, it toasts. It doesn’t burn images of Darth Vader into your bread, but you can reliably get toast at about the level of toastiness you expect on the daily.
That said, it was designed by committee back in the early ‘00s, and was never expected to be the paragon of reliability. It was a holdover between the Daimler-Chrysler meltdown and the Cerberus Capital fiasco. It was meant to break Jeep into the mainstream market, and boost Jeep’s fleet average MPGs. It succeeded at both.
I drove it one-way from Oregon to Texas in 2011 with a family and 1/4 of our belongings, and it has survived to this point, more or less.
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> Sam
10/26/2016 at 15:53 |
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It very much is.
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> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
10/26/2016 at 15:54 |
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It’s a Daimler-Chrysler thing, you wouldn’t understand...
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
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10/26/2016 at 15:56 |
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I intend to keep it that way. Seems like the safe way to go.