Bought mine in 2018, loved every second of driving it. The only issue I had was the fuel pump, but covered under a good will warranty from the dealership.
the only thing that needed to be replaced was the throttle body but thats expected with age.
I love mine. Do I get "flashed", sure. But IMO, its when another car has prob not passed another car in a while therefore making it seem like brights are on... dark dark dark dark BRIGHT!
Patriot just hit 190,000 with 2 cats, gen. Maintence stuff.....been AMAZING.
My complaints about the JL are the steering and manual transmission. Some how (in my opinion) they screwed both of those up over the JK.
I just replaced a battery on a wrangler hybrid under warranty. Cost was around $9k…
Replaced 2 windshields, 2 cam shafts (under warranty), 3 phasers (something to do with timing I think, I'm not a mechanic), and a ground short (caused by them crimping a wiring harness when fixing a cam shaft). The other day my rear diff lock fault was flashing. Looking it up, it's a known problem, many people just bypass it. It went away for now, so I'm leaving it as is. I have a manual transmission and the clutch has had a recall on it for a year or more with no fix.
By those 60k miles they need about 3-4k worth of repairs and or maintenance things done IE brakes , suspensions, fluids etc
It was more economical to just get new ones and trade them in due to the high resale value especially on the wranglers
That being said if you’re in love with the truck get it and just fix things as they come. Look into the oil filter starvation issues etc if you’re thinking long term. I just learned to push the pedal down while cranking to prevent it from firing off when sitting for prolonged amounts of time . Our last JK had only 63k miles and was maintenance regularly but already had top end noise so we got rid of it .
Until recently I’ve started having issues. Started leaking oil and coolant. Had to replace lower radiator hose and coolant tank. As well as valve cover gasket.
Got my 21 Gladiator back after 2 months for the fuel pump recall. Damned thing died on the way to one of the only dealers in 90 miles, had to sit through thanksgiving, Christmas, moving into a new house and New Years without a rental or loaner vehicle while they figured out the parts situation.
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