rkemp1

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I'm looking to buy a winter beater car to get me around when there is snow and ice on the ground and I have found a 96 Jeep Cherokee for 950 bucks. It has 145k miles, 4 wheel drive and apparently no major mechanical problems but the guy is moving soon so he has to get rid of it. I know absolutely nothing about jeeps and which models were crap versus which ones were reliable so any experiences or knowledge you guys could share would be greatly appreciated. A freind of mine tells me that any Jeep with a straight 6 is good to go engine wise.

Alberto

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The I-6 engines are indestructable. Dont buy any Jeep with the weak 4cyl. Ive had 3 friends with those motors in a few diff Jeeps all with over 200+, one with 350K on that engine never even replaced a valve cover gasket.

If you give them good maintenance, and treat em right they are awesome beaters. Jeep died when they stopped making that 4.0L I6. 185hp, 220ft/lbs, its a workhorse! My friend who bought our old Grand Cherokee recently did new springs, shocks, alignment for like $700 and it drives like new. My DD is a V-8 limited GC, love it I plan on owning it for a lonngggggg time.

edit-in 200+K mile staright sixes, I have seen exhaust manifold stress cracks, and leaky intake manifold gaskets. Nothing serious, the good thing about them is they are cheap to fix.

SC 350Z

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950 bucks that a steel of a deal cant go wrong with a jeep of course on every car stuff breaks from wear and tear but jeeps seem to hold up good

bsurdam

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i had a jeep wrangler with an inline 6 took it offroading all the time have gone through 10k in mechanical repairs none of which was on the engine. honestly you can not kill the inline 6 engine.

spddmn124

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^^my friend did... DD blew a head gasket... on a Jeep Cherokee... buy the grand cherokee, regular cherokee is a piece...

.steeeeZ33.

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nahhhh the grand cherokees have no offroad potential and are uglier.

the cherokees are haus. my friends HG blew at 290k.. even then it is still a super easy fix as these motors are super easy to work on.

bigslim350Z

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do it....do it now

SmokerZ

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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you do not seriously buy it let me know!!!!!

i have a 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee (you can peep pictures on my facebook Russel under the album "chromin") and seriously, it will...NOT..DIE. inline 6 with 242,000 miles, same engine. the only thing ive gone through on that car is 4 sets of tires (i like burn out in it with cheapppp tires) and a fuel pump. the power steering is gone on mine but thats because of a leak from too much jumping around

get it!!!

C5_vette

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go with the jeep, they are pretty hard to break..and thats a deal

I had a 2000 GC with the inline 6 and had no major problems with it except for the rotors warping.... besides that it was great, and I beat it up off road a few times..

Now I have a 2002 GC special edition with the I-6, its has 100K+ miles on it now and it runs very well




eh I beat up my GC plenty of times off road, and went with ppl that had regular cherokees, and I hung with them.... looks are subjective but I would take a GC over a regualar cherokee any day...

now if you plan on modding it and getting super serious off road then yea go with the regular cherokee...( I would buy a wrangler though )

ZRuggernDC

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Your wrong about that... Grand Cherokees do have off road potential. As in everything its all about the person building the vehicle.

superchargedg

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Russ one thing you need to do is have it checked over first for state inspection issues that could make that $950 price skyrocket.