Memes

My parents bought a Chrysler/ Stellantis product to tow their camper after I told them to buy literally anything else. Unsurprisingly it's a heap of shit.

The engine has a plastic oil cooler - sits in the engine valley, it cracked and leaked oil everywhere at 40k miles. Their plastic intake manifold leaks and sometimes when you start the shitbox there is a strong odor of gasoline 60k. The plastic valve covers leak 70k. Needed an entire front accessory/pulley assembly because the water pump was leaking - made of......plastic 80k. Shocks and struts are shot and causing tread cupping on the tires - 90k. In addition to this, when i drive it around I notice a few things - it's loud as shit. The engine sounds like it has shit timing or a flat cam or something. Exterior noise is terrible you hear everything. It shifts like an automatic from the 80s and it has 27 gears so it shifts constantly. I'm so sad for them but Dad got a great "deal" on it, I wonder why.

Unironically this is just me with arch linux

Btw

Like the Alfa Romeo loyalists in Europe. I'll admit the 156 and 159 series are still nice looking automobiles, but they are rolling junk.

Glorified hatchbacks with a lift-kit and a cult.

My first car was a Nissan altima, I pulled apart to get running. I wanted to go off road at a friend's property, there's not much difficult terrain, like bouldering or anything, just bumpy and filled with potholes that catch cars every time they hosted large events.

I put a 2in lift kit on it, and after becoming confident it won't get stuck at my friends house, I got a winch that I could store in the trunk, an extra scissor jack, took that fucker to the woods and tried a few trails popular with jeeps and Subarus.

It's crazy what kind of stuff you can get up to if you don't care a ton about the car you're driving. Eventually put the extra stuff in my pickup, and that car slowly got used less and less until it blew a gasket into cyl 5 and I decided I didn't want to pull the entire engine apart a second time.

So has my Audi A6 Allroad, bone stock. Actually, I think I took my Chrysler 300M to places no shiny new grand cherokee will ever be taken and that's a low fwd sedan. People used to ask me if it's been lowered and I told them it was just the factory handling package.

Stock jeeps, besides the wrangler and that pickup thingy maybe, aren't much good off road anyway. Which is fine because nobody who buys a brand new vehicle goes off roading with it usually. The Grenadier folks may be an exception.

"WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER YOUR LOUD OFF-ROAD TIRES ON PAVEMENT."

If you don't "look the part" then people will judge harshly regardless of how (in)capable you are at something.

Goes for a lot of things in life.

I never clean mine or have bothered fixing panel damages and paint scrapes. But I take the time to oil and fluid change every 5000 kms lol

It wasn't made to be pretty, it was made to be reliable and capable.

Their mom rides what?

The last TJ was 2006 but yeah everything after that hurts my soul.

I'd be a lot more tolerant of people buying whatever they wanted if what they bought wasn't so goddamn offensive and dangerous

huge, loud, blinding headlights, blocks my view of the road, they always fucking pull up past the stop line so you can't see if it's safe to turn right on red, they have to hammer the gas to accelerate decently because they're massive, they can't fucking see anything around them because of blind spots and so they are always trying to back into people walking in parking lots, etc