Have to sell my XJ.. need advice..

So why did you accept a free truck that you can't sell, when you don't want to sell your other 2 vehicles, when you live someplace you can't have 3 vehicles to begin with? The truck may be "free", but if you lose your butt selling the XJ, the truck most certainly isn't free. I'm kind of confused by this. Is there some bylaw limiting you to a number or cars, or is it parking spaces, or what exactly? I'd pull the gate, put the Jeep in the yard under one of the knockdown "car tents", put the gate back up, and lie about how many cars. You're going to take a monetary beating going any other route, and I don't see why you would want to.
 
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hubs97xj said:
So why did you accept a free truck that you can't sell, when you don't want to sell your other 2 vehicles, when you live someplace you can't have 3 vehicles to begin with? The truck may be "free", but if you lose your butt selling the XJ, the truck most certainly isn't free. I'm kind of confused by this. Is there some bylaw limiting you to a number or cars, or is it parking spaces, or what exactly? I'd pull the gate, put the Jeep in the yard under one of the knockdown "car tents", put the gate back up, and lie about how many cars. You're going to take a monetary beating going any other route, and I don't see why you would want to.
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This is a good point.. but you guys are forgetting I'm married.. The wife has been against the jeep since day 1. She thinks it is a POS that I wasted my money on, and spend way too much time and money working on. When her dad offered the truck her immediate reaction was "Great you can get rid of that POS now."

As far as parking the jeep at my house.. I technically could.. it would just be a pita rearranging vehicles to get certain ones in the garage.. and.. if we have people over there wouldn't be much parking..
 
LOL yea I know it seems that way... I shouldn't give up so easily.. I'll keep scheming on ways to keep it.. There are a couple of businesses within walking distance.. may approach one of them and offer like $20 a month to let me a park a vehicle there.
 
Does anyone know how well the F150 4x4 would perform off road? It has that I-beam front end which is about as durable as it gets aside from a solid front axle. It has pretty aggressive 33's on it. It looks very simliar to this: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3176483

I would think it would do pretty well, the only downside is that it's wider than the XJ so it won't fit through as tight of stuff.. its also longer.. but not a great deal since its a reg cab, std bed.
 
friend had one just like that. it had a lsd in the rear and did well. its full size so its a whole different story on the trails. i was doing things in my jeep and 1 ton blazer couldnt do. yes you can wheel i just dont like it imo.
 
You should sell your XJ, buy her something nice... then buy another XJ- to avoid beating on the truck her father gave you. Win, win, win.
 
Heh yea when I was thinking about wheeling the truck I was thinking how careful I would have to be not to rub any trees or anything. But with as many hours I have in the body work on my XJ I would have to be careful with it too.
 
stephenspann27 said:
Does anyone know how well the F150 4x4 would perform off road? It has that I-beam front end which is about as durable as it gets aside from a solid front axle. It has pretty aggressive 33's on it. It looks very simliar to this: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3176483

I would think it would do pretty well, the only downside is that it's wider than the XJ so it won't fit through as tight of stuff.. its also longer.. but not a great deal since its a reg cab, std bed.
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Worse approach angles, worse break over angle, heavier, longer and all around bigger.
You can wheel anything i guess, just some will get farther than others.
 
tell her that all the time you spend on the Jeep is so she can not worry about where you are while she's talking to her mom and ten friends on the phone? I dunno, you got set up pretty badly there.
 
I measured my current gate width and it is 70.5 inches, i think it will fit even without widening the gate if I had a spotter, because I have to go at and angle because of the A/C unit. I thought "Sweet, i can totally stash this in the side yard"
But.. as I was pressure washing the engine bay.. and crawled under the jeep and found a bunch of of rust i didn't see before in the floor pan.. which quickly made me less sentimental. The floor pan from under the passenger's feet, all the way back to the storage beneath the rear seat needs to be replaced... grrrr.

I'm never buying a vehicle with rust again. One thing I've learned is that passion for a type of vehicle (XJ) can only motivate you so much.. a return on your invested (monetary motivation) really helps, at least in my case.

One area where the CJ/TJ (notice I left out YJ) really bests the XJ is resale value. You can buy a POS CJ7 and fix it up and really make some cash..

However that same crappy XJ resale value is what made a 4x4 vehicle within my reach.
 
If you get rid of your XJ because your wife doesn't like it, you may as well cut your balls off, have them bronzed, and hang them from a chain on her rear view mirror for all the world to see. :D

Stand your ground, before it's to late.
 
X2 !!!

I think that subdivision is the first problem - man I could never live in one! But I don't own a home so I'll say you are farther ahead than me...

I just don't know if I could handle a H.A. telling me what color to paint my siding and how many Jeeps I can own... F that. Give me liberty or give me death !
 
I don't think the HOA actually limits the # of vehicles you can have.. I am just trying to keep the place looking halfway decent and leave some room for freinds to park. You are right about living in a subdivision. I grew up in the country and never thought I would end up living in "town" as we say in the south.. However, property is REALLY expensive here, and I would have to buy a place 30-45 mins from my job in order to find affordable land.
The more I think about it, if it came down to a decision between the truck and the XJ I'd pick the XJ. Driving the truck will be like driving a leased vehicle, or renting a house, any work you have to do it feels like a waste of time, because you are fixing some other person's shit, there is no pride in it.
 
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