$1700 Later

My Jeep is happy as a clam I love my 11 year old Jeep . . . it’s been good to me . . . it’s got 164,000 miles on it . . . it was my first brand new vehicle . . . we bought it before we had our first child. My goal is 200,000 miles before I even consider letting it go. But, with an 11 year old vehicle, you have to make repairs.

Like a couple weeks ago. It started making this nasty terrible noise, intermittently of course, whicle I was driving down the road - and only after you’d driven like 20 miles at highway speeds. Try convincing the shop that you’re really NOT crazy when they can’t recreate the problem! And 3 days later they tell you to pick up your car because there’s nothing wrong with it. Then your Hubby takes it in and they say “Oh ya. That’s the drive train. We heard that last time.” SERIOUSLY?!

Anyhoo - that cost us $1100 to fix.

Then we got new tires. New tires for  Jeep are not cheap . . . Big O wanted $164/tire! Just like plane tickets, that seems cheap, until you multiply it by 4! Hubby convinced them to give us a deal since just last month we paid retail for new tires for the Highlander. They knocked off quite a bit - $200 off the entire set. And yesterday he drove out of there with new tires, saying (for the 3rd time) “This’ll be the last time I have to buy tires for the Jeep.” Ya . . . he wasn’t real convinced the Jeep was going to live this long

So $1700 later, I have a Jeep that is happy, which makes me happy! And I can’t wait to see how much more we have to put into it before it reaches my requisite 200,000 miles!