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Continuing story of my rear-ended Jeep...to sum up, got rear-ended in June and the shop diddled around forever and the insurance company blah blah - got my Jeep back finally a couple weeks ago - FOUR MONTHS IN THE SHOP!

So anyway, one of the replaced items was my engine, due to a sheared motor mount. Brand new short block from Chrysler, should be running like a champ right?

Well apparently some idiot didn't torque something correctly in the heads. On a lengthy road trip this weekend, it starts ticking like a stuck rocker. The ticking gets louder and now its a CLACKALACKALACKALACKA...and the engine cuts out like it's hitting the rev limiter but at only 3200 RPM (redline is 6k), and by the time I make it home it feels like I'm making about 3 ft-lbs of torque. Oh and the 'check engine' light is not only on, but flashing furiously at me.

Sure it's all under warranty, but now I have to take it back to the four-month wondershop to get it fixed again.
Meanwhile it's raining like cats and dogs and I really hate showing up to work soaked.
I swear if one my privates did that crappy of work on the bird, I'd have put my foot square

GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

It's a sorry state of society when the sub-par or normal has become the exceptional . Saw a van the other day with this as their mission statement - "We Do It Right The First Time" , well , news flash - you're SUPPOSED to do it right the first time!!!! Whasswrongwitdesefolks? Baaahhhh ! ( the primary reason I do everything myself , including surgery ) . Now I'm ticked .

I'd be asking for the free use of a loaner or rental until they fixed it right.

And not in my "indoor" voice, either....

Ya know Eric, I'm very shocked to read this!

I had always heard Chrysler products were extremely well built!

(yeah....RIGHT!!!)

Yep. We bought a brand new '94 Eagle Vision which we owned for a few years.

(trust me...we experienced absolutely NO "separation anxiety" from it when we traded it in on a Subaru Outback a few years later)

Oh no, it's not the Jeep - never had a problem with any of mine that I didn't cause (like the fuse that kept blowing cause the O2 sensor was shorting against the frame after I'd bent the muffler pipe up against the underside by tooling around in the river running over big rocks).
It's a brand new short block, and the shop actually admitted that they probably messed up while installing the heads, valves, etc.

It's at the shop now, getting redone, they're telling me a week tops, probably less if it's all head problems.
And they're going to hook up the factory subwoofer they forgot to reconnect while reassembling.

Didn't bother demanding a loaner...I get free use of a Chevy Malibu anyway - it just has US Army blazed all over the hood, trunk and sides

I'm hijacking! I think Jeeps are extremely well built. I have a '95 Wrangler and love it to death. I don't ever want to part with it. Nice little 2.5L 4 cyl. soft top Rio Grande Edition. Best 4 wheel vehicle I've ever owned hands down.

I had a '91 Wrangler with the inline 6. Only problem was that, after 90-some Kmiles, the cloth top wore out. I'd still have it except that I got an offer I couldn't refuse and traded it for a '71 Jensen Interceptor. Then the OL got a ticket in the Jensen doing 140 in a 75 zone.

As a towing operator I see lots of jeeps. 99% of them were still running. Usually junked for body damage of one kind or other. I have 2 out back right now (4 if you count the 2 postal jeeps) They both run. one has the GM 2.5 4 cyl (had wrist pin problems but they wouldn't break just rattle) and the other has the inline 6cyl. The 4 cly is a PU and everything else is worn out and is rusty. The Cherokee hit a big rock and needs bumper,grill,hood,header panel. So I'm gonna take all the stuff off the PU and put it on the Cherokee and use it to save a little gas over our 4X4 Silverado with a 350 in it. That thing is killing me in gas.

Those Postal Jeeps were a hot item a few years back - once they quit selling them at auction. Back in the day, I'd pick them up for about $600 with only about 30K on the clock and drive the snot out of 'em (with 15" wheels they didn't fall over so easily). Probably quite a few rural carriers that'd like to get their hands on a servicable one.

The 2 I have are rough,one runs and I drove it where it is. That one isn't in too bad a shape I would say there is 1 good one between the 2. Both are fixable but the one has no engine now and a broken window or 2. The other one probably still runs only been sitting there maybe 3 years.I have no idea on mileage but ran fine and didn't smoke or anything. Has the GM 2.5 in it (other one did too but sold the engine)
One has the wrong wheels on it that don't fit right too, center hole is too small.

If I was closer, I'd probably be talking the wife into yet another vehicle. Darn things were near bulletproof and it was kinda' fun to drive on the wrong side - under 45mph that is!